Human securities, sustainability, and migration in the ancient U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest

Ingram, Scott; Patrick, Shelby

doi:10.5751/es-12312-260209

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“…A last point to be addressed is the Fronteras Valley's anomalous demographic and cultural resilience relative to other portions of the Casas Grandes region (Hill et al 2004; Ingram and Shelby 2021). At present we can offer only the outline of a materialist perspective that undoubtedly lacks nuance.…”

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Spatial and Temporal Limits of the Casas Grandes Tradition: A View from the Fronteras Valley

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This article revises the spatial and temporal boundaries of the Casas Grandes tradition associated with northwest Chihuahua, Mexico, based on new data collected in neighboring northeastern Sonora. The Casas Grandes tradition attained its greatest extent during the Medio period (AD 1200–1450/1500) followed by a dramatic demographic and political collapse. Hunter-gatherer groups subsequently occupied most of northwest Chihuahua. Data from the Fronteras Valley, Sonora, presents an alternative scenario, with a clear pattern of cultural continuity from the eleventh century to the colonial period in which sedentary farmers occupied the same landscapes and occasionally the same villages. These observations contribute to our understanding of the spread and subsequent demise of the Casas Grandes tradition in hinterland regions. For the Fronteras Valley, we infer that immigrant groups originally introduced Casas Grandes traditions and that uneven participation in a suite of shared religious beliefs and practices was common to all the hinterlands.

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“…In the words of Sabina Alkire (2003:2), "The objective of human security is to safeguard the vital core of all human lives from critical pervasive threats, in a way that is consistent with long-term human fulfillment." Ingram and Patrick (2021) have adapted this approach to the archaeology of the U.S. Southwest, with detailed descriptions of how variables are coded and analyzed. From the human securities perspective urban order describes a situation where many or most urban residents have access to manifestations of the seven securities.…”

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Institutions, Generative Processes, and Urban Order in Early Cities

Smith

2024

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I address the question of what holds cities—particularly early cities—together. I first discuss the question of urban order, or social order in cities. Archaeologists are starting to come around to the standard answer to that question in the social sciences: urban order is created and maintained by the operation of two types of social forces: institutions (top-down forces) and generative processes (bottom-up forces). I review the changes in archaeological thinking that led from obsolete and inadequate models of social order (statism and agency) to the emerging current understanding. I discuss the concept of institutions, including a new archaeologically-useful definition, and describe five types of early urban institutions (political, economic, political economy, social, and religious). I then present three types of generative process: population/demography, self-governance, and self-coordination. I also urge archaeologists to stop using idiosyncratic definitions of concepts (like institution) that serve to isolate archaeology from wider scholarship in the social and natural sciences.

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New tree-ring-radiocarbon dates reveal drought-migration linkage for central Arizona cliff dwelling

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Hodgins

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Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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Human securities, sustainability, and migration in the ancient U.S. Southwest and Mexican Northwest

Cited by 7 publications

References 66 publications

Spatial and Temporal Limits of the Casas Grandes Tradition: A View from the Fronteras Valley

Spatial and Temporal Limits of the Casas Grandes Tradition: A View from the Fronteras Valley

Institutions, Generative Processes, and Urban Order in Early Cities

New tree-ring-radiocarbon dates reveal drought-migration linkage for central Arizona cliff dwelling

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