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Urban Open Space and Governance in Ancient Mesoamerica
Analyzing the nature of governance of early states and cities is a major challenge for archaeology today. Blanton and Fargher’s (Blanton and Fargher,
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Contextualizing Ancestral Pueblo Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo spp.) Management
Penning turkeys ( Meleagris gallopavo spp.) in the Ancestral Pueblo American Southwest/Mexican Northwest (SW/NW) involved the creation or use of a...
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Environment, Climate, and Mississippian Origins in the Lower Mississippi Valley and the Mississippi River Delta
The Lower Mississippi Valley (LMV) and Mississippi River Delta (MRD) are dramatically impacted by long-term and seasonal fluctuations in water...
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Early Platforms, Early Plazas: Exploring the Precursors to Mississippian Mound-and-Plaza Centers
Platform mounds and plazas have a 5000-year-long history in the eastern United States but are often viewed through the lens of late prehistoric and...
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Distributed Urban Networks in the Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz
The concept of low-density urbanism has developed in archaeology over the past 20 years to characterize settlements that display the same types of...
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Arroyo Hondo Pueblo
In the Northern Rio Grande, Arroyo Hondo was a major settlement that ushered in a new configuration of large, aggregated villages during the...
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Considering Ideas of Collective Action, Institutions, and “Hunter-Gatherers” in the American Southeast
Archaeologists have not readily applied collective action and institutional approaches to the study of hunter-gatherers. This is especially true of...
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Living with the Dead
At Arroyo Hondo, villagers literally lived with the dead. Like other Ancestral Puebloan settlements, the dead were interspersed within village spaces...
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Vehemence and Community Violence
Violence has often been portrayed as an endemic feature of the Ancestral Puebloan world. Yet detailed analyzes of actual lethal injuries often...
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Breath, Animacy, and Death
In Tewa cosmology, the dead are different kinds of entities that are conceptually distinct the living. No longer persons, corpses required special...
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Climate and Archetype: Vernacular House-Forms as Tropical Urban Ideations
The rise of the sustainable agenda must face the reality of tropical regions, which must grow their own archetypes and models of sustainable...
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The Besieged City: Geographies of Crime
This chapter addresses the spatial dimension of insecurity and decodes how territoryTerritory neutralizes, encourages or inhibits the commission of a...
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Exploring Theories of Social Inclusivity and Creative Placemaking Analyzing Engaged Creative-Placemaking in Different Case Studies
Arts and cultural initiatives in societies don’t only promote social well-being, but they are indispensable elements of social well-being. Just as...
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Social Complexity and the Middle Preclassic Lowland Maya
Intensified social complexity emerged in some parts of the lowland Maya region during the Middle Preclassic period (800–300 BC). Though data for...
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Wari: Imperialism, Low Power, and Globalization in the Middle Horizon Central Andes
Wari is sometimes described as the first empire of the Andes, conquering and controlling a broad region during the Middle Horizon (600–1000 CE). This...
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Governance, Monumentality, and Urbanism in the Northern Maya Lowlands During the Preclassic and Classic Periods
This article synthesizes monumentality, governance, urbanism, and regional statecraft in the Northern Maya Lowlands during the Preclassic and Classic...
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Archiving Urban Space
This chapter focuses on the ways skate video archives patches of cities ignored by official histories and by most alternative histories: schoolyards,...
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Beyond Animal Husbandry: The Role of Herders Among the Wayuu of Colombia
The territory of the Wayuu indigenous people comprises a small, low mountain range surrounded by a large desert that extends from Colombia to...
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Ways of Being at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo
This study portrays how life was constituted for villagers living at the fourteenth century Ancestral Puebloan settlement of Arroyo Hondo. By drawing...
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Social media, meet old politics: preservation and innovation in Colombian presidential elections, 2010–2018
This article develops a framework to analyze how political actors adopt social media in systems characterized by clientelism and populism, tracing...
