Description
The essays in this collection are unified by three specific themes: landscape, movement, and technology. Landscape involves the ecological backdrop of the northern Rio Grande valley, including past and present environments. Movement refers to the positioning of people across the landscape along with the dynamic and fluid nature with which people-past and present-view their relationship with the "above" and "below." Technology not only refers to the tools and facilities that past people may have used but to the organisation of labour needed to cooperatively exploit a variety of subsistence resources and the exchange of products across the region. This volume provides both a cross section of current research from expert scholars and a broad perspective that seeks to integrate new data from lowland and upland contexts. From Mountain Top to Valley Bottom will appeal to those interested in obsidian source studies, geoarchaeology, past climatic regimes, foraging societies, early agriculture, ceramic technology, subsistence, early village formation, ethnogenesis, and historic multiethnic economies.
About the Author
Bradley J. Vierra received his PhD from the University of New Mexico and is principal investigator and director of the material studies programme at Statistical Research Inc.
Reviews
"Brings a wide range of specialties commenting on a single region into a single volume. It covers thousands of years of human occupation in the Northern Rio Grande and spans an array of specialties."-Michael Adler, author of The Prehistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1150-1350
"This volume illustrates the richness of the Northern Rio Grande archaeological record, the rapidly expanding database being built by a large number of excellent archaeologists working in the region, and the fascinating debates on fundamental interpretations that result."-Journal of Anthropological Research
"[This volume] is especially helpful as an example of a regional overview that synthesizes available data, addresses important research questions, identifies data gaps, and helps develop hypotheses for future research in Utah."-Utah Archaeology
Book Information
ISBN 9781607812661
Author Bradley J. Vierra
Format Hardback
Page Count 268
Imprint University of Utah Press,U.S.
Publisher University of Utah Press,U.S.
Weight(grams) 648g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 20mm