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1 online resource |
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The household as analytical unit : case studies from the Americas / John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin -- Occupation span and the organization of residential activities : a cross-cultural model and case study from the Mesa Verde region / Mark D. Varien -- Production and consumption in the countryside : a case study from the late classic Maya rural commoner households at Copán, Honduras / Nancy Gonlin -- Iroquoian households : a Mohawk longhouse at Otstungo, New York / Dean R. Snow -- Activity areas and households in the late Mississippian southeast United States : who did what where? / Ramie A. Gougeon -- The social evolution of potters' households in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico, 1965-1997 / Dean E. Arnold -- Pots and agriculture : Anasazi rural household production, Long House Valley, northern Arizona / John G. Douglass and Robert A. Heckman -- Hohokam household organization, sedentism, and irrigation in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona / Richard Ciolek-Torrello -- Understanding households on their own terms : investigations on household sizes, production, and longevity at K'axob, Belize / H. Hope Henderson -- Late classic period terrace agriculture in the lowland Maya area : modeling the organization of terrace agricultural activity / L. Theodore Neff -- Fluctuating community organization : formation and dissolution of multifamily corporate groups at La Joya, Veracruz, Mexico / Valerie J. McCormack -- Relationships among households in the prehispanic community of Mesitas in San Agustín, Colombia / Víctor González Fernández -- Interhousehold versus intracommunity comparisons : incipient socioeconomic complexity at Jachakala, Bolivia / Christine Beaule -- Arrobas, fanegas, and mantas : identifying continuity and change in early colonial Maya household production / Darcy Lynn Wiewall |
| Summary |
In Ancient Households of the Americas archaeologists investigate the fundamental role of household production in ancient, colonial, and contemporary households. Several different cultures-Iroquois, Coosa, Anasazi, Hohokam, San Agustín, Wankarani, Formative Gulf Coast Mexico, and Formative, Classic, Colonial, and contemporary Maya-are analyzed through the lens of household archaeology in concrete, data-driven case studies. The text is divided into three sections: Section I examines the spatial and social organization and context of household production; Section II looks at the role and result |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Indians -- Dwellings.
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Indians -- Social life and customs
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Indians -- Antiquities.
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Households -- America -- History
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Home economics -- America -- History
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Social archaeology -- America -- History
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Land settlement patterns -- America -- History
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lodges (Native American structures)
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HISTORY -- Native American.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Antiquities.
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Home economics.
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Households.
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Indians -- Antiquities.
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Indians -- Dwellings.
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Indians -- Social life and customs.
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Land settlement patterns.
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Social archaeology.
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| SUBJECT |
America -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004221
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America.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Douglass, John G., 1968-
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Gonlin, Nancy
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| LC no. |
2011051660 |
| ISBN |
9781607321743 |
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1607321742 |
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1646420667 |
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9781646420667 |
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1457117460 |
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9781457117466 |
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