Ancient Households of the Americas: Conceptualizing What Households Do

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| ix figure 1.1. Map of the Americas | 19 figure 2.1. Map of the central Mesa Verde region | 48 figure 2.2. Map of the Dolores Archaeological Program (DAP) project | 49 figure 2.3. Plan map of the Duckfoot site (5MT3868) | 53 figure 2.4. Occupation span estimates | 56 figure 2.5. Mean occupation span estimates | 57 figure 2.6. Plan map of Tres Bobos (5MT4545), a household residential site occupied around AD 650, central Mesa Verde region, Colorado | 59 figure 2.7. Plan map of Prince Hamlet (5MT2161) | 61 figure 2.8. Plan map of Dobbins Stockade (5MT8827) | 63 figure 2.9. Plan map of Architectural Block 500 at Sand Canyon Pueblo (site 5MT765) | 64 figures x | Figures figure 3.1. Map of eight rural sites, Copán Valley, Honduras | 80 figure 3.2. Spatial distribution of grinding-stone fragments at Site 7D-6-2 | 89 figure 3.3. Spatial distribution of hammerstone/polisher fragments at Site 7D-6-2 | 94 figure 3.4. Plan map of Site 7D-3-1 | 96 figure 4.1. Northern Iroquoian village site clusters | 118 figure 4.2. Northeastern American longhouse cross sections | 120 figure 4.3. Contour map of the Otstungo site, New York | 125 figure 4.4. Excavation grid | 127 figure 4.5. Longhouse 1 plan | 128 figure 4.6. Longhouse 1 plan | 128 figure 4.7. Artifact distributions at Otstungo site, New York | 131 figure 4.8. Human effigy mask smoking pipe | 132 figure 4.9. Artifact distributions at Otstungo site: rim sherds | 133 figure 4.10. Artifact distributions at Otstungo site: food-bone fragments | 134 figure 4.11. Artifact distributions at Otstungo site: scrapers and projectile points | 135 figure 4.12. Distribution of quartz crystals | 137 figure 5.1. Location of Little Egypt | 143 figure 5.2. Site map of Little Egypt | 144 figure 5.3. Isopleth distribution maps | 147 figure 5.4. Model of household activity area | 150 figure 6.1. Number of potters per production unit in Ticul | 173 figure 6.2. Number of different kin categories of potters | 174 figure 6.3. Percent of total potters by kin type | 175 figure 6.4. Frequency of potters classified by generation | 176 figure 6.5. Most common kin of potters | 176 figure 6.6. Changes in the locations in production units | 177 figure 6.7. Changes in the locations of production units | 178 figure 6.8. The amount of kin relatedness among production units | 179 figure 6.9. The back of Lorenzo Pech’s house | 181 Figures | xi figure 6.10. Lorenzo’s house and the workshop behind it in 1997 | 181 figure 7.1. Location of Long House Valley, northeastern Arizona | 190 figure 7.2. Regional chronology for the western Anasazi | 199 figure 7.3. Pithouse Feature 106, after excavation | 201 figure 7.4. Unfired clay objects from an intramural feature within Pithouse Feature 106 | 204 figure 7.5. Recycled sherds from AZ-J-28-32 (NN) | 205 figure 8.1. Map of south-central Arizona | 227 figure 8.2. Chronology for the Sonoran desert | 228 figure 8.3. Late Archaic period houses | 229 figure 8.4. Pioneer period house cluster at the Eagle Ridge site | 230 figure 8.5. Hohokam communal houses from the Pioneer period | 232 figure 8.6. Prehistoric canal systems in the Phoenix Basin | 234 figure 8.7. Preclassic period house types and sizes from the Lower Verde Valley | 237 figure 8.8. Preclassic period house types at Scorpion Point Village | 238 figure 8.9. Preclassic period house clusters at Locus A, Scorpion Point Village | 239 figure 8.10. Classic period compound and courtyard groups at AZ U:15:3 | 240 figure 8.11. Pioneer and Colonial period canals and villages in the lower Salt River | 243 figure 8.12. Sedentary period canals and villages in the lower Salt River | 246 figure 8.13. Classic period canals and villages in the lower Salt River | 247 figure 9.1. Model of household organization and staple crop production | 274 figure 9.2. Location of excavation units | 277 figure 9.3. Plan view drawings of occupations 2, 3, 4, and 5 from Unit 10, K’axob, Belize | 281 figure 9.4. Plan view drawings of occupations 3, 4, 5, and 6 from Unit 14 | 282 figure 9.5. Plan view drawings of occupations 7 and 8 from Unit 14 | 283 figure 9.6. Comparison of box-and-dot plots | 285 figure 10.1...