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From Mountain Top to Valley Bottom - Understanding Past Land Use in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico (Hardcover)
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From Mountain Top to Valley Bottom - Understanding Past Land Use in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico (Hardcover)
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The American Southwest is characterized by environmentally and
culturally diverse landscapes, which include the northern Rio
Grande valley as it cuts through north-central New Mexico from Taos
to Albuquerque. The region has a long and rich history of
anthropological research primarily focused on the archaeological
remains found along this valley corridor. Only recently has
research involving large-scale surveys and excavations been
conducted on the nearby mesas and mountains that form the rugged
margins of the river valley. "From Mountain Top to Valley Bottom
"incorporates this new research into a perspective that links the
ever-changing and complementary nature of lowland and upland land
use.
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
organization of labor 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.
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