Household archaeology on the Northwest Coast

Sobel, Elizabeth A., (editor.). Gahr, D. Ann Trieu, (editor.). Ames, Kenneth M., (editor.). Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting (64th : 1999 : Chicago, Ill.) (Added Author).

Summary: Since the late 1970s, household archaeology has become a key theoretical and methodological framework for research on the development of permanent social inequality and complexity, as well as for understanding the social, political and economic organization of chiefdoms and states. This volume is the cumulative result of more than a decade of research focusing on household archaeology as a means to gain understanding of the evolution of social complexity, regardless of underlying economy.

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ISBN: 1879621398
ISBN: 9781879621398
ISBN: 187962138X
ISBN: 9781879621381
ISBN: 1789201780
ISBN: 9781789201789
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 285 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : International Monographs in Prehistory, ©2006.

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Introduction / D. Ann Trieu Gahr, Elizabeth A. Sobel, Kenneth M. Ames -- Thinking about household archaeology on the Northwest Coast / Kenneth M. Ames -- Houses and domestication on the Northwest Coast / Yvonne Marshall -- Architects to ancestors : the life cycle of plankhouses / D. Ann Trieu Gahr -- A chief's house speaks : communicating power on the northern Northwest Coast / Gary Coupland -- Temporality in Northwest Coast households / Colin Grier -- Of a more temporary cast : household production at the Broken Tops Site / David V. Ellis -- The Tsimshian household through the contact period / Andrew Martindale -- Household prestige and exchange in Northwest Coast societies : a case study from the lower Columbia River Valley / Elizabeth A. Sobel -- Households at Ozette / Stephan R. Samuels -- Formation processes of a lower Columbia River plankhouse site / Cameron McPherson Smith -- Households and production on the Pacific Coast : the Northwest Coast and California in comparative perspective / Jeanne R. Arnold.