essay
Variability in food production, strategies of storage and sharing, and the pithouse-to-pueblo transition in the northern Southwest
Evolving complexity and environmental risk in the prehistoric Southwest : proceedings of the Workshop 'Resource Stress, Economic Uncertainty, and Human Response in the Prehistoric Southwest,' held February 25-29, 1992, in Santa Fe, NM / editors, Joseph A. Tainter, Bonnie Bagley Tainter • (24) • Published In 1996 • Pages: 223-250
By: Hegmon, Michelle.
Abstract
This article attempts to understand human social responses to resource stress and economic uncertainty among food producers in the Southwest. Specifically the author's focus is on the effects of different strategies of sharing or not sharing food among horticulturalists in an environment with a high level of high-frequency variability. The results are applied to interpret changes in architecture associated with what is generally called the pithouse to pueblo transition, focusing on changes from communal to private storage (p. 223).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2012
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 2011
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1300-700 BP (AD 700-1300)
- Coverage Place
- Southwest United States
- Notes
- Michelle Hegmon
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-250)
- LCCN
- 95045139
- LCSH
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Economic conditions--Congresses.
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Social conditions--Congresses.
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Subsistence economy--Southwest, New--Congresses.
- Hunting and gathering societies--Southwest, New--Congresses.
- Southwest, New--Environmental conditions--Congresses.
- Southwest, New--Antiquities--Congresses.