Agricultural Beginnings in the American Southwest by Barbara J. Roth Issues in Southwest Archaeology Series. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 185 pp.

2017 ◽  
Vol 119 (4) ◽  
pp. 775-776
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Killion
Keyword(s):  
American Southwest ◽  
Southwest Archaeology

People

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann L. W. Stodder
Keyword(s):  
American Southwest ◽  
Biological Distance ◽  
Southwest Archaeology ◽  
Lethal Violence ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Biological History ◽  
Management Work ◽  
Descendant Communities

This chapter describes the scope of bioarchaeology in the American Southwest, the strengths and limitations of the research, and challenges presented by the cultural resource management work setting and concern with the preferences of descendant communities regarding the treatment and study of human remains. The bioarchaeological record of childhood, gendered social and economic roles, variation in diet and health, biological distance, and the contexts of interpersonal and lethal violence provide unique insights into daily life in the past, as well as the larger social and political processes that drive cultural and biological history in this region. The rejection of systematic and fine-grained analysis of mortuary features is a notable irony given the interest in identity construction, ethnicity, and migration in Southwest archaeology.

scholarly journals The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Southwest Archaeology ◽  
Northwest Mexico ◽  
Explicit Consideration ◽  
Contemporary Practice ◽  
Southwest Part

The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology collectively surveys the state of method, theory, and historical reconstruction in the archaeology of the American Southwest, a region that encompasses the Southwest United States and Northwest Mexico. Part I is comprised of an extended introductory chapter that traces the intellectual development of the discipline from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Archaeological research in the Southwest—like that in any other region—is fundamentally a historical undertaking, and yet there has never been an explicit consideration of Southwest historiography. Part I redresses this situation. Part II inaugurates a set of inquiries into the “shape of history,” exploring the conceptual frameworks guiding archaeological accounts of the past, the intersections between archaeological and descendant perspectives, and the varied culture histories in each major subregion of the Southwest. Part III then turns to consider the “stuff of history” through a series of chapters focused on the material culture, landscapes, and ecologies that serve as the evidentiary bases for historical reconstructions. Together, the contributions provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the discipline and its findings, they chart out the contemporary practice of archaeology in the region from diverse perspectives, and they advocate for a new attention to the craft of historical narration in archaeological scholarship.

Water scarcity and sustainability in the arid area of North America: Insights gained from a cross border perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia ◽  
John W. Day
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
North America ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Arid Area ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
The Face

The arid border region that encompasses the American Southwest and the Mexican northwest is an area where the nexus of water scarcity and climate change in the face of growing human demands for water, emerging energy scarcity, and economic change comes into sharp focus.

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