New Perspectives on Mimbres Archaeology

Three Millennia of Human Occupation in the North American Southwest

Barbara J. Roth, Patricia A. Gilman, Roger Anyon

• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780816553877, 9780816538560
• eBook ISBN: 9780816539079
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

In the early 1970s, understanding of the Mimbres region as a whole was in its infancy. In the following decades, thanks to dedicated work by enterprising archaeologists and nonprofit organizations, our understanding of the Mimbres region has become more complex, nuanced, and rich.

New Perspectives on Mimbres Archaeology brings together these experts in a single volume for the first time. The contributors discuss current knowledge of the people who lived in the Mimbres region of the southwestern United States and how our knowledge has changed since the Mimbres Foundation, directed by Steven A. LeBlanc, began the first modern archaeological investigations in the region. Many of these authors have spent decades conducting the fieldwork that has allowed for a broader understanding of Mimbres society.

Focusing on a variety of important research topics of interest to archaeologists—including the social contexts of people and communities, the role of ritual and ideology in Mimbres society, evidence of continuities and cultural change through time, and the varying impacts of external influences throughout the region—New Perspectives on Mimbres Archaeology presents recent data on and interpretations of the entire pre-Hispanic sequence of occupation. Additional contributions include a history of nonprofit archaeology by William H. Doelle and a concluding chapter by Steven A. LeBlanc reflecting on his decades-long work in Mimbres archaeology and outlining important areas for the next wave of research.
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction: New Perspectives on Mimbres Archaeology
• 1. First Farmers of the Mimbres Region
• 2. Changing Perspectives on Pithouse Period Occupations in the Mimbres Region
• 3. Making the Transition: Using New Data to Reassess the Mimbres Pithouse-to-Pueblo Period
• 4. Mimbres Classic Period Architecture, Ceramics, and Religion: Maintaining Social Cohesion in the Face of Social Diversity
• 5. Small Pueblo Sites of the Mimbres Classic Period: New Views and Interpretations
• 6. Mimbres Pottery: New Perspectives on Production and Distribution
• 7. Mimbres Pottery Designs in Their Social Contexts
• 8. Variability in Mimbres Food and Food Procurement
• 9. Continuity and Change in the Eastern Mimbres Area After A.D. 1130
• 10. Continuity and Change in the Early Postclassic (A.D. 1130 to 1300) in the Mimbres Valley
• 11. Connectivity of Social Change in Mimbres and Points South
• 12. The Mimbres Foundation in the History of Nonprofit Archaeology
• 13. Thoughts on Mimbres Archaeology
• Contributors
• Index