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Population aggregation and the Anasazi social landscape: a view from the Four Corners
ancient southwestern community : models and methods for the study of prehistoric social organization • Albuquerque • Published In 1994 • Pages: 85-101
By: Adler, Michael A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Adler looks at changes in residential groups during the 400 years the Anasazi were developing large aggregated settlements. Adler argues that population aggregation is associated with changes in the degree of resource scarcity, especially arable land and water. As resource scarcity increases, social groups try to increase their direct control over the scarce resource. The northern Anasazi solved this problem by living in aggregated communities.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Settlement patterns
- Community structure
- Sociocultural trends
- Real property
- Household
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Urban and rural life
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early 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
- essay
- 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
- 1986-1987
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1100-700 BP (AD 900-1300)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Colorado Plateau, Colorado, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael Adler
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-101)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93036796
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities
- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric--Southwest, New--Congresses