Archaeology without Borders

Laurie D. Webster is a visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Maxine E. McBrinn is a postdoctoral research scientist at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Contents List of Figures 1. Creating an Archaeology without Borders; Maxine E. McBrinn and Laurie D. Webster Part I: Early Agricultural Adaptations in the U.S. Southwest and Northwestern Mexico 2. The Transition to Agriculture in the Desert Borderlands: An Introduction; Gayle J. Fritz 3. The Setting of Early Agriculture in Southern Chihuahua; A. C. MacWilliams, Robert J. Hard, John R. Roney, Karen R, Adams, and William L. Merrill 4. Modeling the Early Agricultural Frontier in the Desert Borderlands; Jonathan B. Mabry and William E. Doolittle 5. Early Agriculture on the Southeastern Periphery of the Colorado Plateau: Diversity in Tactics; Bradley J. Vierra 6. A Method for Anticipating Patterns in Archaeological Sequences: Projecting the Duration of the Transition to Agriculture in Mexico; Amber L. Johnson 7. The Case for an Early Farmer Migration into the Greater American Southwest; Steven A. LeBlanc Part II: Converging Identities: Exploring Social Identity through Multiple Data Classes 8. Exploring Social Identities through Archaeological Data from the Southwest: An Introduction; Linda S. Cordell 9. Archaeological Models of Early Uto-Aztecan Prehistory in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands; Jonathan B. Mabry, John P. Carpenter, and Guadalupe Sanchez 10. Interaction, Enculturation, Social Distance, and Ancient Ethnic Identities; Patrick D. Lyons and Jeffery J. Clark 11. Networking the Old-Fashioned Way: Social and Economic Networks among Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in Southern New Mexico; Maxine McBrinn 12. Architectural Metaphor and Chacoan Influence in the Northern San Juan; Scott G. Ortman 13. Life's Pathways: Geographic Metaphors in Ancestral Puebloan Material Culture; Kelley Hays-Gilpin 14. The Dynamic Nature of Cultural Identity during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries in Central New Mexico; Suzanne L. Eckert Part III: New Research from Northern Mexico: Borders, Contacts, Landscapes, and History 15. New Research from Northern Mexico: An Introduction; Eduardo Gamboa Carrera 16. Imaginary Border, Profound Border: Terminological and Conceptual Construction of the Archaeology of Northern Mexico; Francisco Mendiola Galv n 17. Epic of the Toltec Chichimec and the Purepecha in the Ancient Southwest; Patricia Carot and Marie-Areti Hers 18. Mesoamerican Influences in the Imagery of Northern Mexico; Arturo Guevara S nchez 19. Turquoise: Formal Economic Interrelationships between Mesoamerica and the North American Southwest; Phil C. Weigand 20. The Cultural Landscape of Cliff Houses in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Chihuahua; Eduardo Gamboa Carrera and Federico J. Mancera-Valencia 21. All Routes, All Directions: The Prehistoric Landscape of Nuevo Leon; Moises Valadez Moreno 22. Contributions of Walter W. Taylor to the Archaeology of Coahuila, 1937'1947; Leticia Gonz lez Arratia 23. Archaeology and Physical Anthropology: A Reflection on Warfare in the Archaeological Vision; M. Nicol s Caretta 24. Pacification of the Chichimeca Region; Martha Monzon Flores List of Contributors Index