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Seventeen distinguished scholars recount the history of settlement pattern archaeology and detail case studies ranging from Alaska to Oaxaca to Peru. The chapters grow out of papers prepared for a symposium at the 61st annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, held in New Orleans in April 1996, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Virú Valley survey.
'[A]n important and successful book. . . . [I]t provides a fine overview of what settlement pattern archaeology has contributed to anthropology in the Americas.' (Jeffrey R. Parsons, American Antiquity)
'Readers will find the case-studies especially useful for their excellent and well-illustrated reviews of previous research, along with the presentation of new data and analyses. Also important are issues cross-cutting the individual case-studies.' (Deborah L. Nichols, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute)
'The studies in this volume . . . demonstrate the utility of the [settlement pattern] approach and how it has expanded over the last half-century. . . . [I]ncludes state-of-the-art work.' (Robert Santley, Canadian Journal of Anthropological Research)
'This set of papers is strong and represents some of the success stories in site-organized settlement pattern work. . . . [A] credit to the grand impact of the family of settlement archaeology approaches in our discipline.' (Barbara L. Stark, American Anthropologist)
List of Illustrations
List of tables
Contributors
Preface
1. Settlement Pattern Research in the Americas: Past, Present, and Future Brian R. Billman
Part One: The Development of Settlement Pattern Archaeology in the New World
2. The Viru Valley Project and Settlement Archaeology: Some Reminiscences and Contemporary Comments Gordon R. Willey
3. Three Valleys: Twenty-Five Years of Settlement Archaeology in Mesoamerica William T. Sanders
4. Spatial Scales and Process: In and around the Valley of Oaxaca Laura Finsten and Stephen A. Kowalewski
Part Two: Settlement Pattern Studies and the Origins of Sedentism
5. From Traveler to Processor: Regional Trajectories of Hunter-Gatherer Sedentism in the Inoy-Mono Region, California Robert L. Bettinger
6. Sedentism, Settlement, and Village Organization on the Lower Alaska Peninsula: A Preliminary Assessment Herbert D.G. Maschner
Part Three: Settlement Pattern Studies and the Origins of Ranked Societies
7. Late Prehistoric Settlements and Wetlands in the Central Mississippi Valley George R. Milner and James S. Oliver
8. The Settlement Pattern of Mississippian Chiefdoms in Northern Georgia David J. Hally
9. Settlement Pattern Shifts and Political Ranking in the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru Charles Stanish
Part Four: Settlement Pattern Studies and States and Empires
10. Reconstructing Prehistoric Political Economies and Cycles of Political Power in the Moche Valley, Peru Brian R. Billman
11. Regional Approaches to the Study of Prehistoric Empires: Examples from Ayacucho and Masca, Peru Katharina J. Schreiber
12. Reflections on Regional Survey: Perspectives from the Guirin Area, Oaxaca, Mexico Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas
13. Settlement Pattern Studies in the Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca, 1966-1996 Andrew Balkansky
14. Conclusions: The Settlement Pattern Concept from an Americanist Perspective Suzanne K. Fish
References
Index