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Outgrowth of a symposium at the 2006 Society for American Archaeology meetings in San Juan, and of a seminar at the Amerind Foundation. Cf. pref.

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Amerind studies in archaeology ; v. 6

Becoming villagers : the evolution of early village societies / Matthew S. Bandy and Jake R. Fox

pt. 1. Population growth and historical process. Population growth, village fissioning, and alternative early village trajectories / Matthew S. Bandy ; A scale model of seven hundred years of farming settlements in southwestern Colorado / Timothy A. Kohler and Mark D. Varien ; "Great expectations," or, The inevitable collapse of the early Neolithic in the Near East / Nigel Goring-Morris and Anna Belfer-Cohen

pt. 2. Constructing early villages. "Ritualization" in early village society : the case of the Lake Titicaca Basin formative / Amanda B. Cohen ; The sacred and the secular revisited : the essential tensions of early village society in the southeastern United States / Thomas Pluckhahn ; Substantial structures, few people, and the question of early villages in the Mimbres region of the North American Southwest / Patricia A. Gilman ; Sea changes in stable communities : what do small changes in practices at Çatalhöyük and Chiripa imply about community making? / Christine A. Hastorf

pt. 3. Developmental trajectories of early village societies. The emergence of early villages in the American Southwest : cultural issues and historical perspectives / Richard H. Wilshusen and James M. Potter ; A persistent early village settlement system on the Bolivian southern Altiplano / Jake R. Fox ; First towns in the Americas : searching for agriculture, population growth, and other enabling conditions / John E. Clark, Jon L. Gibson, and James Zeidler ; The evolution of early Yangshao period village organization in the middle reaches of northern China's Yellow River Valley / Christian E. Peterson and Gideon Shelach.

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Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting (71st : 2006 : San Juan, P.R.)

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