Perspectives On Southwestern Prehistory (Investigations in American Archaeology)

Recent archaeoglogical work in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico has fueled a great deal of regionally specific research: archaeologists, faced with an avalanche of new and unassimilated data, tend to foucs on their own areas to the exclusion of the broader, panregional view. "Perspectives on Southwestern Prehistory" advocates the larger focus and brings together researchers from all across the Greater Southwest to examine hunters and gatherers, transitions to sedentism, presence and nature of elites and regional systems, the Protohistoric period, and the history of southwestern archaeology. As well as addressing these major theoretical and historical issues, this volume's broad comparative perspective includes viewpoints and data from desert, plateau and mountainous areas.