{"product_id":"southwestern-pithouse-communities-ad-200-900-lisa-c-young-9780816529735","title":"Southwestern Pithouse Communities, Ad 200-900","description":"\u003cp\u003ePithouses are the earliest identifiable domestic architecture in many areas of the world, and can provide insights into the origins of communities--a fundamental component of past and present societies. In this book, Lisa Young and Sarah Herr invite archaeologists to explore the development of communities using information from pithouse sites in the American Southwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing regional and topical syntheses to investigate the formation of pithouse communities, contributors to this volume examine the complex relationship between the economic transition to agricultural dependence and the social changes associated with sedentism. They discover that during this transformation, peoples' relationship with the landscape changed in ways that affected their use of space, community organization, and cultural identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmploying various theoretical perspectives, these contributions analyze changes in pithouses, site layout, communal architecture, and settlement patterns to investigate the development of place-based communities. Chapters look at community formation strategies in populous regions like the northern San Juan Basin, the southern Colorado Plateau, Mimbres\/southern Mogollon, and Hohokam Basin and Range and compare them with social structures in more sparsely populated regions like the northeast Hohokam peripheries, the Arizona Transition Zone, the Cibola region, southeast New Mexico, and the northern Rio Grande. The book also includes thematic discussions of panregional economic change, the complex relationship between house and household, and the demographic shifts accompanying the Neolithic Demographic Transition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn essential book for students and archaeologists interested in the origins of communities, \u003ci\u003e Southwestern Pithouse Communities \u003c\/i\u003eis also an important comparative resource for scholars interested in social change during the transition to settled village life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa C. Young\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816529736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816529735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.60w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/09\/2012 pg. 16","brand":"Lisa C. Young","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44072816771327,"sku":"9780816529735","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2a2a3619-29d4-4af6-a004-915a528faf33.jpg?v=1685444099","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/southwestern-pithouse-communities-ad-200-900-lisa-c-young-9780816529735","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}