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Ancestral Pueblo population aggregation and abandonment in the North American Southwest
Journal of world prehistory • 10 (3) • Published In 1996 • Pages: 375-438
By: Adler, Michael A., VanPool, Todd L., Leonard, Robert D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Adler et al. discuss how using different hypotheses to explain the archaeological data concerning aggregation and abandonment will emphasize either the factors 'pushing' a population or community or 'pulling' a population or community to change. 'Our point is that pull models, generally dependent upon relatively synchronic events, and push models, which tend to focus on diachronic processes of change, are necessarily complementary in explaining the pan-regional patterns of aggregation and abandonment that characterize the occupation of the northern Southwest. Depending on one's temporal and spatial frames of reference, push and pull models will have different explanatory potential in explaining how the Pueblo world and its many regional parts came to be. This complementarity will expand, rather than restrict, our explanatory potential.' (page 423). Adler et al. also point out that there were several hundred years when aggregation was adopted and then abandoned as a settlement strategy before it became the permanent pattern after AD 1400. This way of transitioning to village life occurred in a similar way in the southern Levant where it took about 1000 years to become the dominant pattern. Only the data that pertain to the Late Anasazi period of 700-460 BP (AD 1300-1540) were marked for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) codes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Late Anasazi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1300-500 BP (AD 700-1540)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael A. Adler, Todd van Pool, and Robert D. Leonard
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-438)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87655790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Antiquities