The Archaeology of Regional Interaction: Religion, Warfare, and Exchange Across the American Southwest and Beyond

Description

Editor: Hegmon, Michelle  (1959-)

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Pub Date: 2008 (First paperback printing)

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  Upper corners of pages 29 and 208 bent.  Some edge and corner wear.

Notes: Conference papers.  “The fifth Southwest Symposium, “Regional Interaction in the Prehistoric Southwest, ” asked scholars to consider the variety of individual social behaviors through which regions are created, sustained, and later observed archaeologically.  Participants recognized that regions are defined at different scales and are underlain by a diversity of actions and interactions, some of which may involve processes we do not normally associate with regional interactions; group mobility, migrations, and warfare come to mind.  Other patterns suggest the integration of regions through belief systems manifest in shared symbols rather than integration through the economic exchange of goods or an overarching political organization.”  (From the Foreword)