Paradigms in Conflict

Cognitive Archaeology on the High Plains

Thomas N. Huffman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

266 Seiten

2022
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-68507-497-5 (ISBN)

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PARADIGMS IN CONFLICT presents an anthropologically grounded alternative to Culture History and Culture Ecology. By using principles derived from the ethnography of descendant (or closely related) peoples, the book explains three contemporaneous archaeological cultures in the High Plains and the Southwest of North America: High Plains Upper Republican, Apishipa, and Sopris. Rather than hunter/gatherers, High Plains Upper Republican people at the Wallace site were maize farmers as well as bison hunters. In contrast, Apishapa people were hunter/gatherers but were probably Numic speakers from the Great Basin, while Sopris people were not related to Apishapa but to the Tanoan group of Pueblo people. In keeping with their worldview, the rock art at the Wallace site reflected supernatural protection of shield-bearing warriors on the one hand and the cosmic origins of humanity on the other. Pilgrimages led by shamans provided the social context of rock art in the Apishapa valley, while Sopris rock art varied according to the concentric zones around the core of Pueblo-like villages: maize agriculture in zone 2, hunting shrines in zone 3 and rain control in zone 4. Our ethnographically informed approach helps to unite rock art with traditional dirt archaeology.

Thomas N. Huffman, PhD Professor Emeritus, School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Preface; Introduction; Wallace: Upper Republican or Apishapa?; Wallace Rock Art; A Geophysical Survey of the Wallace and Hobson Sites; Apishapa, the Wallace Site, and the Great Basin Desert Culture; Apishapa Rock Art and Great Basin Pilgrimages; Sopris; Sopris Rock Art; Interaction on the High Plains: Apishapa, Sopris, and High Plains Upper Republican; Subsistence and Economy; Trade and Warfare; Archaeology, Culture History, and Culture Identity; References.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2022
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-68507-497-9 / 1685074979
ISBN-13	978-1-68507-497-5 / 9781685074975
Zustand	Neuware