The Meso-american Southwest: Readings in Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Ethnology - Hardcover

Basil C. Hedrick (editor)|J. Charles Kelley (editor)|Carroll L. Riley (editor)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809306654 ISBN 13: 9780809306657

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1974

Synopsis

This collection of thirteen highly orig­inal studies demonstrates the deeply penetrating influence on the American Southwest by a Mesoamerican culture.

 

Many archaeologists have treated the abo­riginal American Southwest as essentially self-contained. Contrary to this long-held belief, the impressive evidence from the articles selected and edited for this volume is that throughout its history the South­west was tied to Mesoamerica by elaborate trade routes along which much of Mesoamerican culture was diffused north­ward. So complete was this dependence, the editors hold, that American South­western cultural development must have more than once been strongly affected by major historical events in far-off central Mexico.

 

The distinguished group of scholars whose work, all dating to the mid-point of this century, is assembled includes Francis Ernest Lloyd, Charles Amsden, Emil W. Haury, Adolph F. Bandelier, Ralph L. Beals, J. O. Brew, J. Walter Fewkes, A. L. Kroeber, and Elsie Clews Parsons.

 

This book of readings is intended as a source book for specialists and students, but will prove fascinating to nonspecial­ists interested in the American Indian and the Southwest.

About this title

About the Author

Basil C. Hedrick is Dean of Inter­national Education and Professor and Museum Curator of Anthropology, J. Charles Kelley is Professor of Anthropol­ogy and Coordinator of Museum Re­search, and Carroll L. Riley is Director of the University Museum and Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois Uni­versity, Carbondale.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809306654
• ISBN 13: 9780809306657
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192