Social transformation and its human costs in the prehispanic U.S. southwest

American Anthropologist

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 313-324

  Hegmon, Michelle ^a   Peeples, Matthew A ^a   Kinzig, Ann P ^a   Kulow, Stephanie ^a   Meegan, Cathryn M ^a   Nelson, Margaret C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Ecological theory; Resilience theory; Social transformation; U.S. Southwest

Indexed keywords

EID: 51849120626     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2008.00041.x     Document Type: Article

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