Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (322 pages)
- Proceedings of SW Symposium Series .
- Proceedings of SW Symposium Series .
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Introduction to Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest -- PLACE MAKING -- IDENTITIES, BOUNDARIES, AND PLACE MAKING -- REFERENCES CITED -- PART I: Places of Experience and Memory -- CHAPTER 1. Materialities of Place IDEOLOGY ON THE CHACOAN LANDSCAPE -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES -- INTERPRETING SENSUAL PLACES -- LANDSCAPE AND THE CHACOAN WORLDVIEW -- Sacred Geography and Visibility -- Dualisms and Oppositions, Visibility and Movement -- Directionality and Celestial Events -- Cyclical Renewal and Social Memory -- Center Place -- A CHACOAN IDEOLOGY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 2. Procurement and Landscape LITHIC QUARRIES AS PLACES -- NATURAL FEATURES AS PART OF THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE -- LANDSCAPES AND MEMORY IN THE CHACOAN SOUTHWEST -- CHIPPED STONE IN CHACO CANYON . . . -- . . . AND ACROSS THE CHACO WORLD -- OBJECTS OUT OF PLACE -- LITHIC OBJECTS AS "PIECES OF PLACES" -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 3. The Sun Dagger Interactive Computer Graphics Model A DIGITAL RESTORATION OF A CHACOAN CALENDRICAL SITE -- THE SUN DAGGER SITE: ONE PART OF CHACOANS' ASTRONOMY AND COSMOGRAPHY -- THE SUN DAGGER SITE -- Solar Light Patterns -- Lunar and Equinox Light Pattern -- DEVELOPING AN ARCHIVAL RECORD -- Early Efforts -- Disturbances of the Site -- Computer Graphics Efforts -- DEVELOPING AND ORIENTING THE LASER-SCAN MODEL OF THE SUN DAGGER SITE -- Establishing Geodetic Orientation -- Conducting the Laser Scanning -- Registration of the Laser Scans -- Modeling the 2005 Laser-Scanned Site -- Positioning and Orienting the Laser-Scanned Model -- Testing the Accuracy of the Laser-Scanned Model -- DEVELOPING THE 1984 PHOTOGRAMMETRY COMPUTER MODEL OF THE SUN DAGGER SITE -- Background: 1984 Photogrammetric Activity -- 2006 Photogrammetric Reading. REGISTERING THE 1984 PHOTOGRAMMETRIC MODEL WITH THE 2005 LASER-SCAN MODEL -- TESTING THE ACCURACY OF THE REGISTERED MODEL -- ASSESSING THE SITE'S DISTURBANCE -- EXPERIMENTS WITH THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE SUN DAGGER SITE -- CREATING AN INTERACTIVE RESEARCH MODEL -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 4. The Lay of the Land POWER, MEANING, AND THE SOCIAL IN LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS -- THE MEANINGFUL AND THE MATERIAL -- PHENOMENOLOGY, MEANING, AND EXPERIENCE -- SOME THOUGHTS ON LANDSCAPE -- CERRO DE TRINCHERAS AS LANDSCAPE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 5. Archaeology of the Moment CREATING PLACE IN THE LUDLOW STRIKERS' COLONY -- COMMUNITY AND A SENSE OF PLACE -- BACKGROUND OF COLORADO'S COAL INDUSTRY -- ESTABLISHING ORDER AND A SOCIAL STAGE -- EXPERIENCE AND THE MAKING OF PLACE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 6. Sacred Landscapes, Sacred Acts THE METAPHYSICS OF EMPLACED RITUAL AMONG NORTHERN PAIUTE AND HUALAPAI GHOST DANCERS -- CONCEPTUALIZING SPACE AND PLACE -- Space and Place -- Euro-American Conceptions of Space -- Impacts -- NATIVE AMERICAN CONCEPTIONS OF PLACE -- EMERGENCE OF THE GHOST DANCE -- Northern Paiute Site -- Hualapai Ghost Dance -- A PERFORMATIVE CONVERGENCE OF PLACE AND POWER -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 7. Fire: Accidental or Intentional? AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL TOOLKIT FOR EVALUATING ACCIDENT AND INTENT IN ANCIENT STRUCTURAL FIRES -- FIRE -- STRUCTURES -- STRUCTURAL FIRES -- EXPERIMENTAL FIRES -- APPLICATION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD -- REFERENCES CITED -- PART II: Boundaries and Landscapes of Movement -- CHAPTER 8. Ancient Social Boundaries Inscribed on the Landscape of the Lower San Pedro Valley -- INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY AREA -- MONUMENTS, MEMORY, IDENTITY, AND SOCIAL ORDER -- Ball Courts -- Kivas -- TRANSFORMATION -- Boundary Markers? -- Platform Mounds. CONCLUSION: FORGETTING, REMEMBERING, IDENTITY, AND PLACE MAKING -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 9. El Morro Valley as Crossroads, El Morro Valley as Gathering Place UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE OF THE EASTERN CIBOLA REGION THROUGH THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD -- LANDSCAPES, MOBILITY, AND TIME -- MOBILITY IN THE ANCIENT CIBOLA LANDSCAPE DURING THE AD 1200S -- MOBILITY AND INTERACTION DURING THE HISTORIC PERIOD -- COMPARING LANDSCAPES AND MOVEMENT IN THE CIBOLA REGION ACROSS TIME -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 10. Social Identity and Memory INTERACTIONS BETWEEN APACHES AND MORMONS ON A FRONTIER LANDSCAPE -- DOCUMENTS, ORAL HISTORY, HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, AND IDENTITY -- APACHE HISTORY -- MORMON HISTORY -- APACHE AND MORMON INTERACTION IN THE FORESTDALE VALLEY -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 11. Landscape Use at San Agustín -- LANDSCAPES AND THE SPANISH COLONIAL WORLDVIEW -- O'ODHAM LANDSCAPES AND WORLDVIEW -- MISSIONIZATION AND O'ODHAM LAND-USE PRACTICES -- ZOOARCHAEOLOGY OF MISSION SAN AGUSTíN -- HUNTING, HUSBANDRY, AND LANDSCAPE USE AT THE SAN AGUSTíN MISSION -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 12. Ephemeral Sites and Inertia along El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro EVIDENCE FROM NEARLY TWO DECADES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH -- THE CAMINO REAL WAS A TRAIL -- STRUCTURAL INERTIA AND EPHEMERAL SITES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES CITED -- CHAPTER 13. Investigating Differential Persistence of Pueblo Population A LANDSCAPE APPROACH -- CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON DIFFERENTIAL PERSISTENCE OF PUEBLO PEOPLES -- POPULATION DISPERSION AND THE LAND-USE RECORD -- Landscape-Use Datasets -- Comparing the Large and Small Site Records -- LANDSCAPE SURVEY AS DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD -- Small Sites -- Aggregated Settlements -- Historical Records -- CONCLUSION: CHANGING THE SCALE OF RESEARCH AGENDAS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES CITED -- Index. Footnote.
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