Thomas J. Pluckhahn

TL;DR: In this article, highland central Mexican transportation corridors are analyzed through GIS applications and a reconsideration of settlement data from an important corridor in northern Tlaxcala, where the authors provide an updated assessment of prehispanic political evolution ca. 900 BC-AD 1519.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ a landscape perspective to the shell middens at Crystal River and Roberts Island (8CI1) and 8CI41, Woodland period (ca. 1000 BC to AD 1000) mound centers on the west-central coast of Florida in the American Southeast.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose four categories of research related to the meaning, context and changing function of persistent places: construction variation, continuity and discontinuity in the use of space, studying natural and/or cultural landscape modifications over time and space, and constancies in the uses of space and architecture at the regional level.

TL;DR: A review of the archaeological investigations of prehistoric and historic households in southeastern North America can be found in this paper, where the authors highlight some of the most innovative studies exploring the intersections of these topics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize the 3,000-year period of Prehispanic settlement in the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca, Mexico, based on regional surveys.