Exploring Prehistoric Social and Political Organization in the American Southwest

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For more than 125 years, archaeologists working in the American Southwest have made various attempts to reconstruct aspects of the social and political organization of the region's Native American peoples. Initial work focused upon the analysis of prehistoric pottery and architecture and included an ethnoarchaeological component. After the turn of the century, archaeologists turned away from such attempts in response to the rise of Boasian Historical Particularism. With a few notable exceptions, a return to such interests waited until after World War II and, once again, focused upon ceramic and architectural data. The New Archaeology of the 1960s saw the development of "Ceramic Sociology," and that, in turn, gave rise to refinements in method and theory that follow into the current period. Recent work includes ethnoarchaeological studies as well as longitudinal architectural analyses and creative analyses of other artifacts.

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