Perspectives On Southwestern Prehistory

Paul E. Minnis is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He has studied Paquimé since 1984 and co-directed research projects on Casas Grandes/Paquimé in northwest Chihuahua since 1989.

• Introduction -- Hunters and Gatherers -- Introduction -- The Study of Hunter-Gatherers in the American Southwest: New Insights from Ethnology -- Thermal Maxima and Episodic Occupation of the Picacho Reservoir Dune Field -- Hunters and Gatherers of the Sonoran Islands -- Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology in Northeastern Arizona and Southeastern Utah -- Archaic Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology in Northwestern New Mexico -- Transitions to Sedentism -- Introduction -- Sedentism and Settlement Mobility in the Tucson Basin Prior to A.D. 1000 -- Sedentism or Mobility: What Do the Data Say? What Did the Anasazi Do? -- Artifact Assemblage Composition and Site Occupation Duration -- Patterns of Residential Mobility and Sedentism in the Jornada Mogollon Area -- Agriculture Dependence in the Mountain Mogollon -- Comments -- Comments -- Elites and Regional Systems -- Introduction -- The Identification of Possible Elites in Prehispanic Sonora -- The Complicated and the Complex: Observations on the Archaeological Record of Large Pueblos -- Explanations of Population Aggregation in the Mesa Verde Region Prior to A.D. 900 -- Elite Formation and Interregional Exchanges in Peripheries -- Protohistoric Period: Transitions to History -- Introduction -- A View from the Protohistoric -- The Transition to History in Pimería Alta -- Protohistoric Transitions in the Western Pueblo Area -- Contact Shock and the Protohistoric Period in the Greater Southwest -- Tener Comal y Metate: Protohistoric Rio Grande Maize Use and Diet -- Comments -- Comments -- History of Southwestern Archaeology -- Introduction History of Southwestern Archaeology -- Cultivating Ideas: The Changing Intellectual History of the Introduction of Agriculture to the American Southwest -- Sedentism and Aggregation in Anasazi Archaeology -- Population Growth and Mobility in Southern Colorado Plateau Archaeology -- From Myths to Methods: Intellectual Transitions in Flagstaff Archaeology, 1883-1930