| Surviving Adversity - AP 120: Volume 120 Contributor(s): Kamp, Kathryn (Author), Whittaker, John C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0874805759 ISBN-13: 9780874805758 Publisher: University of Utah Press OUR PRICE: $32.78 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1998 Annotation: This is the only modern interpretive site report on the Sinagua culture. Major aspects of that culture are described, illustrated, and interpreted to show that the relatively simple social organization of the Sinagua allowed successful long-term adaptations to difficult conditions. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 979.133 |
| LCCN: 98042120 |
| Series: University of Utah Anthropological Papers |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 8.58" W x 11.04" (1.34 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Based on more than ten years of field work, this is the only modern interpretive site report on the Sinagua culture. Lizard Man Village is one of many small settlements in the Flagstaff vicinity occupied by the Sinagua between AD 1050 and 1300. Generally considered affiliated with the Mogollon, the major archaeological culture group in central Arizona, the Sinagua inhabited a region where three distinct groups intersected: the Mogollon, the Hohokam, and the Anasazi. Sinagua survival strategy in this very arid region combined dispersed agriculture with hunting and foraging. It appears that an essentially egalitarian social system allowed flexibility to maximize wild resources and potential agricultural sites or vice versa. The area is characterized by a number of small villages that probably consisted of only a few families each. Precisely because Lizard Man Village is typical of such sites, the authors chose it for intensive fieldwork. According to them, "in its very ordinariness lies its importance." Based on the site report, the authors provide interpretations for comparison to other sites in the Southwest, as well as a detailed consideration of what went on at a small Sinagua village. Using material assemblages they present a picture of social organization through successive culture phases. |