Prehistoric Adaptation in the American Southwest

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Author: Hunter-Anderson, Rosalind L.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Pub Date: 1986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Light edge and corner wear.  Gilt on spine still sharp, easily readable.   Dust Jacket: Fair to Good.  NOT price clipped (no price indicated).  Light edge and corner wear.  Some smudging to front and rear.

Notes: Hunter-Anderson’s revised dissertation. “…eventually both the Anasazi and the Mogollones gave up subterranean dwellings in favor of above-ground houses.  While in Morgan’s (n.b. Lewis H., 1963) evolutionary terms this was a progressive change toward upper barbarism, the twentieth-century archaeologists saw it as a ‘diffusionary’ process of idea exchange.  The proposed that, in spite of the earlier differences between the two major cultural traditions, cultural interaction (by various encounters including intermarriage) and exchange of ideas (some of their own and some imported from Mexico) among the Mogollones and Anasazi had caused the change in living habits.  This cultural hybridization of ideas as well as peoples had led to a merging of their traditions into a pan-Southwestern way of life.”  (From the Introduction)  How did we get from one and two room “pueblitos” to multi-story, multi-thousand room “great houses”?  Farming and ritual (religion).