Title Mimbres during the twelfth century : abandonment, continuity, and reorganization / Margaret C. Nelson

Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Book collections on Project MUSE Contents Abandonment is no mystery -- The Mimbres -- Evidence for Mimbres occupation during the eleventh through thirteenth centuries -- Occupational histories of four postclassic hamlets -- Foraging and farming / Margaret C. Nelson, Michael W. Diehl -- Social contexts of the postclassic / Margaret C. Nelson, Michelle Hegmon -- Rethinking abandonment Summary By examining the economic and social reasons for change among the Mimbres, Nelson reconstructs a process of shifting residence as people spent more time in field camps and gradually transformed them into small hamlets while continuing to farm their old fields. Challenging current interpretations of abandonment of the Mimbres area through archaeological excavation and survey, she suggests that agricultural practices evolved toward the farming of multiple fields among which families moved, with small social groups traveling frequently between small pueblos rather than being aggregated in large villages During the mid twelfth century, villages that had been occupied by the Mimbres people in what is now southwestern New Mexico were depopulated and new settlements were formed. While most scholars view abandonment in terms of failed settlements, Margaret Nelson shows that, for the Mimbres, abandonment of individual communities did not necessarily imply abandonment of regions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-228) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record In Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR Subject Mimbres culture. Indians of North America -- New Mexico -- Migrations Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- New Mexico Land settlement patterns -- New Mexico Archaeological surveying -- New Mexico SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Antiquities Archaeological surveying Indians of North America -- Land tenure Indians of North America -- Migrations Land settlement patterns Mimbres culture SUBJECT New Mexico -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091362 Subject New Mexico Form Electronic book LC no. 98040197 ISBN 9780816548972 0816548978

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