Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Foreword xi
5. Preface xv
6. 1 Changing Perceptions of Regional Interaction in the Prehistoric Southwest 1
7. Part 1 Regional Issues and Regional Systems
8. 2 What is a Regional System? Issues of Scale and Interaction in the Prehistoric Southwest 25
9. 3 Regional Interaction and Warfare in the Late Prehistoric Southwest 41
10. 4 Scale, Interaction, and Regional Analysis in Late Pueblo Prehistory 71
11. 5 Regional Interactions and Regional Systems in the Protohistoric Rio Grande 99
12. 6 Regional Approaches with Unbounded Systems 119
13. Part 2 Interregional Economies and Exchange
14. 7 Theorizing the Political Economy of Southwestern Exchange 151
15. 8 Networks of Shell Ornament Exchange 167
16. 9 Exchanges, Assumptions, and Mortuary Goods in Pre-paquimé Chihuahua, Mexico 189
17. 10 Pottery, Food, Hides, and Women 209
18. Part 3 Beyond the Borders of the traditional Southwest
19. 11 Scale, Innovation, and Change in the Desert West 235
20. 12 Life at the Edge 257
21. 13 Fremont Farmers 275
22. 14 Prehistoric Movements of Northern Uto-Aztecan Peoples Along the Northwestern Edge of the Southwest 295
23. 15 Aggregation, Warfare, and the Spread of the Mesoamerican Tradition 317
24. Part 4 The Spread of Religious Systems
25. 16 Katsinas and Kiva Abandonment at Homol’ovi 341
26. 17 Navajo Ritual Histories, Organization, and Architecture 361
27. 18 Cultural Collapse and Reorganization 381
28. 19 The Flower World in Prehistoric Southwest Material Culture 411
29. 20 Outward and Visible Signs 429
30. List of contributors 449
31. Index 451