Chaco & Hohokam

Prehistoric Regional Systems in the American Southwest

• Author(s): Patricia L. Crown, William James Judge,
• Publisher: School of American Research Press
• Pages: 369
• ISBN_10: 0933452756
  ISBN_13: 9780933452756
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / United States / State & Local / General , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , Social Science / Archaeology , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies ,

Description:... Papers and discussions (from a 1987 seminar held at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico), along with a chapter that summarizes and synthesizes the presentations, offer new data, current thinking, and a set of case studies on two of the Southwest's most sophisticated cultures of prehistoric times. The authors examine settlement patterns, subsistence economy, exchange of goods, and social organization with an emphasis on explaining and comparing cultural origins, growth, maintenance, and decline.