This book is about post-Pleistocene adaptive change among the
aboriginal cultures of the mountains and deserts of Arizona and New
Mexico. Conceived essentially as a natural science alternative to
the prevailing culture history paradigm, it offers both a general
theoretical framework for interpreting the archaeological record of
the American South-West and a persuasive evolutionary model for the
shift from a hunter-gatherer economy to horticulture at the
Mogollon/Anasazi interface. Technical, architectural and settlement
adaptations are examined and the rise of matrilineality, ethnic
groupings and clans are modelled using ecological and ethnographic
data and the innovative idea of anticipated cultural response. In
the last part of the book, Dr Hunter-Anderson evaluates the 'fit'
between her model and the archaeological record and argues
vigorously for research into the evolution of ethnicity in the
adaptive context of regional competition.
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