Early Villages in the American Southwest: Cross-Cultural and Archaeological Perspectives

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Author: Wilshusen, Richard H.

Publisher: Department of Anthropology, Graduate School of the University of Colorado

Pub Date: 1991

Binding: Paperback (comb binding)

Condition: Fair.  Comb binding tight.  No missing or broken teeth.  No tears.  Previous owners’ names in ink on upper corner title page.  Lower rear cover corner has approx. 1/2″ bend.  One small bump/indentation on rear cover, about the size of a pencil eraser.  Edge and corner wear.

Notes: Wilshusen’s Ph.D. thesis.  “This dissertation on early villages unites research from both cultural anthropology and archaeology.  It first defines prestate villages on the basis of cross-cultural data and then utilizes this data to analyze their salient characteristics.  Prestate villages typically occur in settings with low regional population densities, patchy resources, and a high incidence of warfare..  A specific case study, the development of early Anasazi villages int he North American northern Southwest, is used to examine the regional changes in villages over a one hundred and year period, A.D. 760 to 880.”  (page iii).  VERY RARE.  NO copies available for sale.