Landscapes, land use, and the history of territory formation: An example from the Puebloan southwest

Abstract

Territories are spatial units that encompass the broadest range of a society's land-use behaviors as well as the history of human interactions with the natural landscape. Drawing from published documents pertaining to the North American Indian Land Claims and to the prehistory and history of land use among the Hopi Indians of Arizona, this paper integrates spatia~ materia~ and historical variables of land use behavior (1) to formulate an empirical definition of territory and (2) to develop a generalized life history of territory formation that can be applied explici@ to the archaeological record.

Distinctive Places, Suitable Spaces: Conceptualizing Mobile Group Occupational Duration and Landscape Use

“…In comparison, the concepts of "anticipated mobility" or expected duration of stay (see Kent 1991) and the "use of space" or "use of place" are more appropriate to hunter-gatherers and pastoralists who select a place with an emphasis on "distinctive characteristics," rather than "making" a place. These distinctive characteristics are similar to what Zedeño (1997Zedeño ( , 2000Carroll et al 2004), after Schiffer and Skibo (1997, p. 29) has referred to as the performance characteristics of a place for ritual activities, although my work suggests that these essentially same set of performance characteristics apply to mobile group sites in a more general way (Seymour 1995(Seymour , 2002a, rather than to post-contact rituals. Such performance characteristics apply to the selection of places within the wider landscape setting and have been especially useful in understanding mobile groups in general and more specifically mobile groups who did not want not to be found (Seymour 1995(Seymour , 2002a(Seymour , b, 2003aSeymour and Harlan 1996;Harlan and Seymour 1996).…”

Entre O Território E a Paisagem: Relações Estabelecidas No Sítio Arqueológico Nova Índia

“…Segundo Zedeño (1997) paisagens são espaços perceptíveis em um relance, em contrapartida território envolve dois ou mais espaços não contíguos ou mesmo sítios ou lugares discretos. Ainda segundo a autora op.…”

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“…Desse modo, a arqueologia se volta constantemente para os estudos antropológicos e etnoarqueológicos visando entender o comportamento humano no presente e, assim, enriquecer e ampliar o conhecimento sobre as pessoas e seu passado (7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12). Contudo, para a maior parte do continente americano temos um descompasso entre os estudos arqueológicos e a construção de uma história que contemple a ascendência dos grupos indígenas.…”