Anthropology 447/547: Anasazi Archaeology
Spring 2005: General Reading List
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Adams, E. Charles
1991 The Origin and Development of the Pueblo Katsina Cult. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2002 Homol’ovi: An Ancient Hopi Settlement Cluster. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
1996

(editor) River of Change: Prehistory of the Middle Little Colorado River Valley, Arizona. Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series No. 185. Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson.
Adams, E. Charles, and Andrew I Duff (editors)
2004 The Protohistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1275-1600. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Adler, Michael, editor
1996 The Prehistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1150-1350. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Ambler, J. Richard
1989 The Anasazi. Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff.
Amsden, Charles A.
1949 Prehistoric Southwesterners from the Basketmaker to Pueblo. Reprinted 1969, 1976, Southwest Museum, Los Angeles.
Atkins, Victoria M., editor
1993 Anasazi Basketmaker: Papers from the 1990 Wetherill-Grand Gulch Symposium. Cultural Resources Series No. 24. USDI Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City.
Berry, Michael S.
1982 Time, Space, and Transition in Anasazi Prehistory. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. (See Dean’s review)
Blackburn, Fred M., and Ray A. Williamson
1997 Cowboys and Cave Dwellers. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.
Brew, John Otis
1946 Archaeology of Alkali Ridge, Southeastern Utah . Papers of the Peabody Museum. Volume 21, Cambridge.
Bullard, William R. Jr.
1962 The Cerro Colorado Site and Pithouse Architecture in the Southwestern United States Prior to A.D. 900. Papers of the Peabody Museum. Volume 45, No. 2. Cambridge. (See especially Part 11, a Review and Critique of Chronology Prior to A.D. 900, pp.53-93.)
Cordell, Linda S.
1979 Prehistory: Eastern Pueblo, Handbook of North American Indians 9, Southwest, edited by A. Ortiz, pp. 131-151, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1994 Ancient Pueblo Peoples. Smithsonian Exploring the Ancient World Series. Smithsonian Books, Washington D.C., St. Remy Press, Montreal.
1997 Prehistory of the Southwest. Academic Press, New York.
Cordell, Linda S., and Fred Plog
1979 Escaping the Confines of Normative Thought: A Reevaluation of Puebloan Prehistory, American Antiquity 44(3):405-429.
Cordell, Linda S., and George J. Gumerman (editors)
1989 Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
Crown, Patricia L.
1994 Ceramics and Ideology: Salado Polychrome Pottery. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
2000 (editor) Women and Men in the Prehispanic Southwest: Labor, Power, and Prestige. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.
Daifuku, Hiroshi
1961 Jeddito 264. Papers of Peabody Museum. Volume 33, No. 1. Cambridge. (See esp. Chapter 1, The Status of Recent Research in the Southwest: Summary and Conclusions, pp. 3-12.)
Damp, Jonathan, Stephen A. Hall, and Susan J. Smith
2002 Early Irrigation on the Colorado Plateau Near Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. American Antiquity 67:665-676.
Dean, Jeffrey S.
1985 Review of "Time, Space, and Transition in Anasazi Prehistory," American Antiquity 50(3):704-705.
1986 Delineating the Anasazi. In Emil W. Haury's Prehistory of the American Southwest, edited by J. Jefferson Reid and David E. Doyel, pp.407-413. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
2002 Late Pueblo II-Pueblo III in Kayenta-Branch Prehistory. In Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau: Ten Thousand Years on Black Mesa, edited by Shirley Powell and Francis E. Smiley, pp. 121-157. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Dean, Jeffrey S., Robert C. Euler, George J. Gumerman, Fred Plog, Richard H. Hevly, and Thor N.V. Karlstom
1985 Human Behavior, Demography, and Paleoenvironment on the Colorado Plateaus. American Antiquity 50:537-554.
Dean, Jeffrey S., and Carla R. Van West
2002 Environment-Behavior Relationships in Southwestern Colorado. In Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region, edited by Mark D. Varien and Richard H. Wilshusen, pp. 81-99. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Dozier, Edward P.
1960 The Pueblos of the South-western United States. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 90(I-11):146-160.
Duff, Andrew I.
2002 Western Pueblo Identities: Regional Interaction, Migration, and Transformation. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Elliot, Melinda
1995 Great Excavations: Tales of Early Southwestern Archaeology, 1888-1939. School of American Research, Santa Fe.
Ferguson , William M., and Arthur H. Rohn
1986 Anasazi Ruins of the Southwest in Color. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Force, Eric and Wayne Howell
1997 Holocene Depositional History and Anasazi Occupation in McElmo Canyon, Southwestern Colorado . Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series No. 188. Arizona State Museum, Tucson.
Force, Eric R., R. Gwinn Vivian, Thomas C. Windes, and Jeffrey S. Dean
2002 Relation of "Bonito" Paleo-Channels and Base-Level Variations to Anasazi Occupation, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series No. 194. Arizona State Museum, Tucson.
Ford, Richard I., Albert H. Schroeder, and Steward L. Peckham
1972 Three Perspectives on Pueblo Prehistory. In New Perspectives on the Pueblos, edited by Alfonso Ortiz, pp. 19-39. School of American Research Book, University of New Mexico Press.
Gilman, Patricia A.
1987 Architecture as Artifact: Pit Structures and Pueblos in the American Southwest. American Antiquity 52:538-564.
Gumerman, George J. (editor)
1988 The Anasazi in a Changing Environment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
1994 Themes in Southwest Prehistory. SAR Advanced Seminar Series. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.
Gumerman, George J., and Murray Gell-Mann
1994 Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest. A Proceedings Volume in the Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Science of Complexity. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., New York.
Huckleberry, Gary A., and Brian R. Billman
1998 Floodwater Farming, Discontinuous Ephemeral Streams, and Puebloan Abandonment in Southeastern Colorado. American Antiquity 63:595-616.
Irwin-Williams, Cynthia
1973 The Oshara Tradition: Origins of Anasazi Culture. Eastern New Mexico University Contributions to Anthropology 5(l), Portales.
Jennings, Jesse D. (editor)
1956 The American Southwest: A Problem in Cultural Isolation. In Seminars in Archaeology: 1955, Memoir No. 1I. Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City.
Kidder, Alfred Vincent
1962 An Introduction to the Study of Southwestern Archaeology with a Preliminary Account of the Excavations at Pecos. Revised edition. Yale University Press, New Haven.
Kohler, Timothy A.
1993 News from the Northern American Southwest: Prehistory on the Edge of Chaos. Journal of Archaeological Research 1(4):267-321.
LeBlanc, Steven A.
1999 Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Lipe, William D.
1983 The Southwest. In Ancient American Indians, edited by J.D. Jennings, pp. 421-493. Freeman and Company, San Francisco. (Especially pp. 459-466.)
Lipe, William D., Mark D. Varien, and Richard H. Wilshusen (editors)
1999 Colorado Prehistory: A Context for the Southern Colorado River Basin. Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists, Denver.
Lister, Robert H., and Florence C. Lister
1983 Those Who Came Before. Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, Tucson.
Longacre, William A. (editor)
1970 Reconstructing Prehistoric Pueblo Societies. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Martin, Paul S., and Fred Plog
1973 The Archaeology of Arizona. Doubleday, New York.
Matson, Richard G.
1991 The Origins of Southwestern Agriculture. University of Arizona Press, Tucson. (See esp. "Summary and Conclusions")
Mills, Barbara J. (editor)
2000 Alternative Leadership Strategies in the Prehispanic Southwest. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Minnis, Paul E., and Charles L. Redman (editors)
1990 Perspectives on Southwestern Prehistory. Westview Press, Boulder.
McGregor, John C.
1982 Southwestern Archaeology. Second Edition. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
Noble, David G.
1991 Ancient Ruins of the Southwest. Northland Press, Flagstaff.
Plog, Fred
1979 Prehistory: Western Anasazi. In Handbook of North American Indians Vol. 9, Southwest, edited by A. Ortiz, pp. 108-130. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
Plog, Stephen
1997 Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest. Thames and Hudson, London.
Powell, Shirley, and Francis E. Smiley (editors)
2002 Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau: Ten Thousand Years on Black Mesa. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Preucel, Robert W. (editor)
2002 Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning, and Renewal in the Pueblo World. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Reed, Erik K.
1954 Transition to History in the Pueblo Southwest. American Anthropologist 56:592-603.
Reed, Paul F. (editor)
2000 Foundations of Anasazi Culture: The Basketmaker-Pueblo Transition. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Reid, Jefferson, and Stephanie Whittlesey
1997 The Archaeology of Ancient Arizona. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Rice, Glen E., and Steven A. LeBlanc (editors)
2001 Deadly Landscapes: Case Studies in Prehistoric Southwestern Warfare. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Schaafsma, Curtis F.
2002 Apaches de Navajo: Seventeenth Century Navajos in the Chama Valley of New Mexico. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Schaafsma, Polly
1985 Indian Rock Art of the Southwest. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Smith, Jack E.
1983 Proceedings of the Anasazi Symposium 1981. Mesa Verde Museum Association, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.
Smith, Watson
1990 When Is a Kiva and Other Questions about Southwestern Archaeology. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Speth, John D.
1988 Do We Need Concepts Like "Mogollon," "Anasazi," and "Hohokam" Today?: A Cultural Anthropological Perspective. The Kiva 53(2):201-204.
Stuart, David E.
2000 Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from the Center Place. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Thomas, David Hurst (editor)
1989 Columbian Consequences: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West. Volume 1. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
Turner, Christy G. II, and Jacqueline A. Turner
1999 Man Corn: Cannibalism and Warfare in the Prehistoric American Southwest. The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Upham, Steadman
1984 Adaptive Diversity and Southwestern Abandonment. Journal of Anthropological Research 40(2):235-255.
1994 Nomads of the Desert West: A Shifting Continuum in Prehistory. Journal of World Prehistory 8(2):113-167.
Upham, Steadman, Kent G. Lightfoot, and Roberta A. Jewett
1989 The Sociopolitical Structure of Prehistoric Southwestern Societies. Westview Press, Boulder.
Van West, Carla R., and Jeffrey S. Dean
2000 Environmental Characteristics of the A.D. 900-1300 Period in the Central Mesa Verde Region. Kiva 66:19-44.
Varien, Mark D.
1999 Sedentism and Mobility in a Social Landscape: Mesa Verde and Beyond. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Varien, Mark D., and Richard H. Wilshusen (editors)
2002 Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Vivian, R. Gwinn
1990 The Chacoan Prehistory of the San Juan Basin. Academic Press, New York.
Widdison, Jerold G.
1991 The Anasazi. Why did They Leave? Where Did They Go? Southwest Natural and Cultural Heritage Association. Albuquerque.
Wilcox, David R.
1981 Changing Perspectives on the Protohistoric Pueblos. In The Protohistoric Period in the North American Southwest, A.D. 1450-1700, edited by D. Wilcox and W. Masse, pp. 213-256. Arizona State University Anthropological Research Papers 24. Tempe.
Wills, Wirt H.
1988 Early Prehistoric Agriculture in the American Southwest. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.
2000 Political Leadership and the Construction of Chacoan Great Houses, A.D. 1020-1140. In Alternative Leadership Strategies in the Prehispanic Southwest, edited by Barbara J. Mills, pp. 19-44. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Wills, Wirt H., and Robert D. Leonard (editors)
1994 The Ancient Southwestern Community. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Wormington, H.M.
1961 Prehistoric Indians of the Southwest. Denver Museum of Natural History. Denver.
 
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