Time, Space, and Transition in Anasazi Prehistory

Description

Author: Berry, Michael S.

Publisher: University of Utah Press

Pub Date: 1982

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: 2 copies.  Copy 1 (BKS): Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket.  Gilt on spine still sharp, easily readable.  Light edge and corner wear.  Copy 2 (D): Fair.   Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Without dust jacket.  Gilt on spine still sharp, easily readable.  Upper front and rear cover corners bumped (dropped?).  Light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Berry’s revised doctoral dissertation.  Repudiation of the standard “Following the demise of the Big Game Hunters, the Southwest was populated by Archaic hunting and gathering groups; maize farming was introduced from Mesoamerica at around 2000 to 3000 B.C., an event that initiated a long, slow, gradual shift from primary dependence on wild resources to primary dependence on domesticated resources; by the time of Christ these Archaic groups made the transition to settled, Basketmaker II village life, dependence on domestic crops continued to increase and new cultural traits gradually replaced the old…” (From the Introduction).  Berry states “…this ‘textbook’ version of Anasazi prehistory is shown to be empirically false and conceptually misleading.” (ibid.)  Migration as a cultural survival tool.  Dating, both tree-ring and radiocarbon, play a large part in Berry’s thesis.  Lots of archaeo-jargon.