Nomads of the Desert West: A shifting continuum in prehistory

Fremont Hunting and Resource Intensification in the Eastern Great Basin

“…I use the term ''farmers'' since the model is based on the assumption that those occupying structural sites were involved in farming. This does not assume that farming was the only strategy or that other strategies were not operating concurrently with the horticultural pattern (Madsen, 1982(Madsen, , 1989Simms, 1986Simms, , 1990Simms, , 1994Upham, 1994).…”

Plain-Ware Ceramics and Residential Mobility: A Case Study From the Great Basin

“…It is increasingly apparent that farmer and forager systems co-existed in the Fremont region (Simms, 1986(Simms, , 1994Madsen, 1989;Coltrain, 1993, n.d.). The Fremont period is contemporaneous with the better-known farming societies of the Southwest such as the Anasazi, and the expression of adaptive diversity in the Fremont area parallels that described for the Southwest (Upham, 1984(Upham, , 1994Rushforth & Upham, 1992: 52-66).…”

Craft economies in the north American Southwest

“…Studies of Preclassic Hohokam and Chaco sites have been integrated with regional and interregional settlement and artifact distributional data to construct macroregional models (e.g., Upham, 1994;Wilcox, 1995Wilcox, , 1996aWilcox, , 1996b. In such frameworks, powerful political centers (e.g., Snaketown and Pueblo Bonito) dominated the North American Southwest.…”

“…The cycling of communities and regions into more (or less) sedentary or mobile lifeways (Upham, 1984(Upham, , 1994 strongly suggests that economic specialization was a reversible process. Reversals in economic intensification are poorly documented in the North American Southwest despite the waning influence of neoevolutionary perspectives that emphasize long-term inevitability in economic differentiation and sociopolitical complexity.…”