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Culture, Corn, and Complexity

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The Bioarchaeology of Social Control

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Abstract

What was the world like in the southwestern portion of the United States before Europeans? While this chapter identifies on a number of cultures, the focus will be on the Ancestral Pueblo. Thus, the greatest attention is focused on people living in the Four Corners region of the United States, which is the area where Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico meet. Within this region, there are quite a few large archaeological sites of interest. Using the archaeological record, this chapter will highlight how the Ancestral Pueblo were not necessarily a homogeneous culture group. Archaeological reconstructions reveal that there was a great deal of variation in cultural traditions, material culture, subsistence strategies, and social complexity. The differences seen among the various Pueblo groups represented ideologies or worldview, and as such, these groups had to be considered and discussed as distinctive groups with unique histories and identities.

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