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Title

  • Ancient households of the Americas : conceptualizing what households do

Names

  • Douglass, John G., 1968-
  • Gonlin, Nancy
  • Society for American Archaeology. Meeting 2001 : New Orleans, La.)

Created / Published

  • Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2012]
  • ©2012

Contents

  • 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.

Headings

  • -  Home economics--America--History--Congresses
  • -  Households--America--History--Congresses
  • -  Indians--Antiquities--Congresses
  • -  Indians--Dwellings--Congresses
  • -  Indians--Social life and customs--Congresses
  • -  Land settlement patterns--America--History--Congresses
  • -  Social archaeology--America--History--Congresses
  • -  America--Antiquities--Congresses

Notes

  • -  Based on papers presented at a session of the 66th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in New Orleans in 2001.
  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xviii, 448 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E59.D9

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2022667473

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Chicago citation style:

Douglass, John G, Nancy Gonlin, and La.) Society For American Archaeology. Meeting 2001: New Orleans. Ancient households of the Americas: conceptualizing what households do. [Boulder: University Press of Colorado, ©, 2012] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2022667473/.

APA citation style:

Douglass, J. G., Gonlin, N. & Society For American Archaeology. Meeting 2001: New Orleans, L. ). (2012) Ancient households of the Americas: conceptualizing what households do. [Boulder: University Press of Colorado, ©] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2022667473/.

MLA citation style:

Douglass, John G, Nancy Gonlin, and La.) Society For American Archaeology. Meeting 2001: New Orleans. Ancient households of the Americas: conceptualizing what households do. [Boulder: University Press of Colorado, ©, 2012] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2022667473/>.