@mastersthesis {657, title = {Late Prehistoric technological and social reorganization along the Mogollon Rim, Arizona}, volume = {Phd}, year = {2000}, school = {University of Arizona}, abstract = {This study seeks to study the social processes of community reorganization through the changing technological organization of flaked stone tools. The Mogollon Rim region of east-central Arizona, between AD 1000 and AD 1400, was the scene of remarkable social changes. In this period, migrants were attracted into the region and new small communities were created. After a period of dispersed settlement pattern communities, some of the communities developed large, aggregated settlements. In this process of aggregation, community growth was facilitated by the incorporation of migrants. Social integrative forces at work included the development of interhousehold exchanges, as well as informal and formal suprahousehold organizations. In spite of these social integrative forces, community dissolution and abandonment sooner or later came to all of these settlements. The technology of daily life is one means of exploring these social organizational forces. Chipped stone studies have been behind the times in the American Southwest when addressing social organization research through the examination of Pueblo chipped stone assemblages. Technological organization is a creation of households and suprahousehold groups. Technological organization changes as community organization changes. This study examines the chipped stone tools and debitage from ten east-central Arizona pueblos, forming inferences about how the organization of chipped stone tool production, distribution, consumption, and discard was arranged in each community. Each community studied was a product of migrants and resident families, social exchanges, social integration, and social dissolution. This study demonstrates the utility of chipped stone analysis for studying the social processes at work in communities. }, keywords = {Arizona, Flaked stone tools, Mogollon Rim, Prehistoric, Social reorganization, Technological organization}, url = {http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=727734641\&sid=17\&Fmt=2\&clientId=43922\&RQT=309\&VName=PQD}, author = {Eric Kaldahl} } @mastersthesis {656, title = {The architecture of Grasshopper Pueblo: Dynamics of form, function, and use of space in a prehistoric community}, volume = {Phd}, year = {1999}, school = {University of Arizona}, abstract = {Architecture can be an enigmatic class of material culture to understand archaeologically and a single approach to its analysis has defied archaeologists. This study views pueblos as analogous to organisms that are constantly developing and degenerating. The ability to draw behavioral inferences from the architecture of Grasshopper Pueblo (A.D. 1300-1400) is impacted not only by these everyday processes of growth and degeneration, but also by the activities of the different social or ethnic groups who were responsible for assembling the pueblo. Fortunately, this study benefits from a long and productive history of architectural research in the American Southwest and from a thirty-year excavation program at Grasshopper itself, which produced a large and representative sample of this complex architectural organism. This extensive sample insures reliable inferences about the growth and degeneration of Grasshopper Pueblo because it is representative of the parameters of time, space, and behavior at the site. This study reinforces previous work at Grasshopper and provides new insights into intrasite community dynamics that have implications for both Grasshopper research and for studies of architecture and community patterns at other southwestern pueblo sites.}, keywords = {Architecture, Arizona, Grasshopper Pueblo, Prehistoric, Use of space}, url = {http://ezproxy.library.arizona.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=733967641\&sid=16\&Fmt=2\&clientId=43922\&RQT=309\&VName=PQD}, author = {Charles Riggs} } @book {882, title = {A Directory of Tree-Ring Dated Prehistoric Sites in the American Southwest}, year = {1991}, publisher = {Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research}, organization = {Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research}, address = {Tucson}, keywords = {Archaeology, dendrochrononology, directory, native american, Prehistoric, quadrangle series, site, southwest, tree ring}, author = {Robinson, William J. and Catherine M. Cameron} } @article {737, title = {Dating Our Prehistoric Ruins}, volume = {XXI}, year = {1921}, keywords = {Archaeology, dates, dating, Douglass, historic, Prehistoric, ruins, southwest, tree ring}, author = {Douglass, A.E.} }