essay

Anasazi demographic patterns and organizational responses: assumptions and interpretive difficulties

anasazi in a changing environment • Cambridge • Published In 1988 • Pages: 168-191

By: Powell, Shirley.

Abstract
Powell 'introduces the concept of paleodemography and its importance for reconstructing prehistoric adaptive and organizational systems…[and] addresses the theoretical and methodological biases archaeologists bring to the study of southwestern paleodemography and the effects these biases have on both population reconstructions and adaptive organizational inferences based on those reconstructions.'(page 168).
Subjects
Theoretical orientation in research and its results
Settlement patterns
Land use
tradition
Early Anasazi
HRAF PubDate
2012
Region
North America
Sub Region
Southwest and Basin
Document Type
essay
Evaluation
Creator Type
Archaeologist
Document Rating
4: Excellent Secondary Data
Analyst
Sarah Berry; 2011
Field Date
not specified
Coverage Date
1200-700 BP (AD 800-1300)
Coverage Place
Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, United States
Notes
Shirley Powell
'A School of American Research book.'
For bibliographical references see document 54:Gumerman
LCCN
87025692
LCSH
Pueblo Indians--Antiquities--Congresses
Paleoecology--Southwest, New--Congresses
Southwest, New--Antiquities--Congresses