Southwest Archaeology in the Twentieth Century

by Cordell, Linda S.; Fowler, Don D.

• ISBN13: 9780874808254
• ISBN10: 0874808251
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-15
• Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr

Summary

Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Canyon de Chelly, and Paquimeacute; are as well known to tourists as they are to scholars as emblems of the American Southwest. This region has been the scene of intense archaeological investigation for more than a hundred years, with more research done here than in any other part of the United States. The arid and sparsely populated landscape provides excellent site preservation, while the living native peoples give cultural continuity with the past. In the first decades of the twentieth century Americans saw the Southwest as exotic-as opposed to the Mexican perspective, which viewed the region, sometimes called the Northwest, as more of a backwater. Both views continue to shape and color the study of the area today. With contributions from well-known archaeologists, Southwest Archaeology in the Twentieth Century reviews the histories of major archaeological topics of the region during the twentieth century, with particular attention to the vast changes in southwestern archaeology during the later decades of the century. Included are the huge influence of field schools, the rise of cultural resource management (CRM), the uses and abuses of ethnographic analogy, the intellectual contexts of archaeology in Mexico, and current debates on agriculture, sedentism, and political complexity. By looking back at the previous century of study, this book provides an authoritative retrospective of intellectual trends as well as a synthesis of current themes in the arena of the American Southwest.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Preface	ix
I. The Contexts of Southwest Archaeology
Introduction	1	(15)
Don D. Fowler
Linda S. Cordell
The Formative Years: Southwest Archaeology, 1890--1910	16	(11)
Don D. Fowler
Paradigms, Professionals, and the Making of Southwest Archaeology, 1910--1920	27	(20)
James E. Snead
Seven Years That Reshaped Southwest Prehistory	47	(13)
J. Jefferson Reid
Stephanie M. Whittlesey
Curricular Matters: The Impact of Field Schools on Southwest Archaeology	60	(21)
Barbara J. Mills
The Development of Archaeology in Northwest Mexico	81	(16)
Jane H. Kelley
A. C. MacWilliams
From the Academy to the Private Sector: CRM's Rapid Transformation within the Archaeological Profession	97	(12)
William H. Doelle
David A. Phillips Jr.
Southwest Archaeology Today with an Eye to the Future	109	(16)
Linda S. Cordell
II. The Contributions of Southwest Archaeology
Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions and Archaeology: Uniting the Social and Natural Sciences in the American Southwest and Beyond	125	(17)
Stephen E. Nash
Jeffrey S. Dean
The First 10,000 Years in the Southwest	142	(15)
Bruce B. Huckell
Complexity	157	(17)
Stephen H. Lekson
Ethnicity and Southwestern Archaeology	174	(20)
Robert W. Preucel
Ethnographic Analogy and Ancestral Pueblo Archaeology	194	(10)
Katherine A. Spielmann
``The Feeling of Working Completely in the Dark.'' The Uncertain Foundations of Southwestern Mission Archaeology	204	(16)
James E. Ivey
David Hurst Thomas
Discussion of Southwest Archaeology in the Twentieth Century	220	(7)
David R. Wilcox
References	227	(62)
Contributors	289	(2)
Index	291