Mimbres Archaeology at the NAN Ranch Ruin - Brossura

Shafer, Harry J.

 
9780826347121: Mimbres Archaeology at the NAN Ranch Ruin
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ISBN 10: 0826347126 ISBN 13: 9780826347121
Casa editrice: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 2009

Sinossi

Following two decades of excavations and research at the NAN Ranch Ruin in southwestern New Mexico, Harry Shafer offers new information and interpretations of the rise and disappearance of the ancient Mimbres culture that thrived in the area from about A.D. 600 to 1140. The NAN Ranch site gives evidence of a fascinating restructuring of Mimbres culture and society, owing to the introduction of irrigation agriculture in the late ninth century. The social restructuring that accompanied this shift in technology resulted in changes that are visible in architecture, mortuary practices, and ceramic decoration.

The NAN Ranch ruin has yielded the largest body of evidence ever gathered at a single Mimbres site and thus offers the clearest picture to date of who the ancient Mimbreños were in relation to their Anasazi and Hohokam neighbors to the north and east. Shafer introduces us to the Mimbres people, gives a history of archaeological research in the Mimbres Valley, and traces the occupation of the NAN Ranch site from pithouses to classic pueblo to abandonment. Social customs, subsistence, biological information, and the symbolism of the distinctive Mimbres designs in their ceramics, pottery, stone artifacts, textiles, and jewelry are all addressed in this comprehensive survey.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Harry J. Shafer is professor emeritus of anthropology at Texas A&M University, College Station.

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Following two decades of excavations and research at the NAN Ranch Ruin in southwest New Mexico, Harry Shafer offers new information and interpretations of the rise and disappearance of the ancient Mimbres culture that thrived in the area from about A.D. 600 to 1140.

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Editore
Univ of New Mexico Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0826347126
ISBN 13 
9780826347121
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
297
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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9780826322043: Mimbres: Archaeology at the Nan Ranch Ruin

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0826322042 ISBN 13:  9780826322043
Casa editrice: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 2004
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