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New Interpretations of Mimbres Public Architecture and Space: Implications for Cultural Change
Darrell Creel,Roger Anyon +1 more
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In this article, the authors show that significant changes in Mimbres society began in the A.D. 800s, and rapid change based on strong connections with the Hohokam of southern Arizona and agricultural intensification began a trajectory that culminated in the Classic MIMBres pueblos of the early 1100s.Abstract:
Recent excavations and reanalysis of existing data on communal pit structures provide intriguing insights into ritual and cultural developments over a period of about 350 years, from A.D. 800 to 1140, in the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico. In the middle of this period, people shifted dwellings from pithouses to pueblos, a shift previously viewed as the pivotal transformation of Mimbres society. In this paper we show that significant changes in Mimbres society began in the A.D. 800s. Trends in the construction methods of communal pit structures, the placement of dedicatory items within them, their ritual retirements, and their long-lived significance within Mimbres villages, reflect other changes that occurred in Mimbres society. We contend that in the A.D. 800s, rapid change based on strong connections with the Hohokam of southern Arizona and agricultural intensification began a trajectory that culminated in the Classic Mimbres pueblos of the A.D. 1000s and early 1100s.read more
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Archaeological and ecological perspectives on reorganization : A case study from the mimbres region of the U.S. Southwest
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the process of reorganization using the emerging perspective of resilience theory and evaluate this assumption using archaeological data, which offer an opportunity to investigate a time span rarely examined in studies of resilience and reorganization.
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Obsidian procurement, least cost path analysis, and social interaction in the Mimbres area of southwestern New Mexico
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize and present data for 923 sourced obsidian samples recovered from over 80 archaeological sites in the Mimbres area of southwestern New Mexico, and then use least cost path analysis as a means of investigating procurement patterns as well as networks of social interaction within the region.
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Ritual Change and the Distant: Mesoamerican Iconography, Scarlet Macaws, and Great Kivas in the Mimbres Region of Southwestern New Mexico
TL;DR: The Mimbres Classic period (A.D. 1000-1130) in southwestern New Mexico was marked by dramatic and complex changes in Mesoamerican-inspired iconography as mentioned in this paper.
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Painting as Agency, Style as Structure: Innovations in Mimbres Pottery Designs From Southwest New Mexico
Michelle Hegmon,Stephanie Kulow +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the act of painting a design is considered as a form of agency, and the overall style of a design in part can be conceptualized as a kind of structure, which is used as a basis for analyzing chronological changes in designs on Mimbres Black-on-white pottery from Southwest New Mexico.
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Mounds, Myths, and Cherokee Townhouses in Southwestern North Carolina
TL;DR: The role of public architecture in anchoring Cherokee communities to particular points within the southern Appalachian landscape in the wake of European contact in North America is explored in this article, where archeological evidence of Cherokee townhouses, especially the sequence of six townhouses at the Coweeta Creek site in southwestern North Carolina, demonstrate an emphasis on continuity in the placement and alignment of public architectures through time.
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