Archaeology Without Borders: Contact, Commerce, and Change in the U.S. Southwest and Northwestern Mexico (Southwest Symposium Series)

Archaeology without Borders presents new research by leading U.S. and Mexican scholars and explores the impacts on archaeology of the border between the United States and Mexico. Including data previously not readily available to English-speaking readers, the twenty-four essays discuss early agricultural adaptations in the region and groundbreaking archaeological research on social identity and cultural landscapes, as well as economic and social interactions within the area now encompassed by northern Mexico and the U.S. Southwest. Contributors examining early agriculture offer models for understanding the transition to agriculture, explore relationships between the spread of agriculture and Uto-Aztecan migrations, and present data from Arizona, New Mexico, and Chihuahua. Contributors focusing on social identity discuss migration, enculturation, social boundaries, and ethnic identities. They draw on case studies that include diverse artifact classes - rock art, lithics, architecture, murals, ceramics, cordage, sandals, baskets, faunal remains, and oral histories. Mexican scholars present data from Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Michoacan, Coahuila, and Nuevo Leon. They address topics including Spanish-indigenous conflicts, archaeological history, cultural landscapes, and interactions among Mesoamerica, northern Mexico, and the U.S. Southwest. Laurie D. Webster is a visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Maxine E. McBrinn is a postdoctoral research scientist at the Field Museum in Chicago. Proceedings of the 2004 Southwest Symposium. Contributors include Karen R. Adams, M. Nicolás Caretta, Patricia Carot, John Carpenter, Jeffery Clark, Linda S. Cordell, William E. Doolittle, Suzanne L. Eckert, Gayle J. Fritz, Eduardo Gamboa Carrera, Leticia González Arratia, Arturo Guevara Sánchez, Robert J. Hard, Kelly Hays-Gilpin, Marie-Areti Hers, Amber L. Johnson, Steven A. LeBlanc, Patrick Lyons, Jonathan B. Mabry, A. C. MacWilliams, Federico Mancera, Maxine E. McBrinn, Francisco Mendiola Galván, William L. Merrill, Martha Monzón Flores, Scott G. Ortman, John R. Roney, Guadalupe Sanchez de Carpenter, Moisés Valadez Moreno, Bradley J. Vierra, Laurie D. Webster, and Phil C. Weigand. Creating An Archaeology Without Borders / Maxine E. Mcbrinn And Laurie D. Webster -- The Transition To Agriculture In The Desert Borderlands : An Introduction / Gayle J. Fritz -- The Setting Of Early Agriculture In Southern Chihuahua / A.c. Macwilliams [and Others] -- Modeling The Early Agricultural Frontier In The Desert Borderlands / Jonathan B. Mabry And William E. Doolittle -- Early Agriculture On The Southeastern Periphery Of The Colorado Plateau : Diversity In Tactics / Bradley J. Vierra -- A Method For Anticipating Patterns In Archaeological Sequences : Projecting The Duration Of The Transition To Agriculture In Mexico -- A Test Case / Amber L. Johnson -- The Case For An Early Farmer Migration Into The Greater American Southwest / Steven A. Leblanc -- Exploring Social Identities Through Archaeological Data From The Southwest : An Introduction / Linda S. Cordell --^ Archaeological Models Of Early Uto-aztecan Prehistory On The Arizona-sonora Borderlands / Jonathan B. Mabry, John P. Carpenter, And Guadalupe Sanchez -- Interaction, Enculturation, Social Distance, And Ancient Ethnic Identities / Patrick D. Lyons And Jeffery J. Clark -- Networking The Old-fashioned Way : Social And Economic Networks Among Archaic Hunters And Gatherers In Southern New Mexico / Maxine E. Mcbrinn -- Architectural Metaphor And Chacoan Influence In The Northern San Juan / Scott G. Ortman -- Life's Pathways : Geographic Metaphors In Ancestral Puebloan Material Culture / Kelley Hays-gilpin -- The Dynamic Nature Of Cultural Identity During The Fourteenth And Fifteenth Centuries In Central New Mexico / Suzanne L. Eckert -- Avances Del Norte De México = New Research From Northern Mexico / Eduardo Gamboa Carrera -- Imaginary Border, Profound Border : Terminological And Conceptual Construction Of The Archaeology Of Northern Mexico / Francisco Mendiola Galván --^ Epic Of The Toltec Chichimec And The Purépecha In The Ancient Southwest / Patricia Carot And Marie-areti Hers -- Mesoamerican Influences In The Imagery Of Northern Mexico / Arturo Guevara Sánchez -- Turquoise : Formal Economic Interrelationships Between Mesoamerica And The North American Southwest / Phil C. Weigand -- The Cultural Landscape Of Cliff Houses In The Sierra Madre Occidental, Chihuahua / Eduardo Gamboa Carrera And Federico J. Mancera-valencia -- All Routes, All Directions : The Prehistoric Landscape Of Nuevo León / Moisés Valadez Moreno -- Contributions Of Walter W. Taylor To The Archaeology Of Coahuila, 1937-1947 / Leticia González Arratia -- Archaeology And Physical Anthropology : A Reflection On Warfare In The Archaeological Vision / M. Nicolás Caretta -- Pacification Of The Chichimeca Region / Martha Monzón Flores. Edited By Laurie D. Webster And Maxine E. Mcbrinn ; With Mexican Editor Eduardo Gamboa Carrera. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.