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Constant Battles

Why We Fight

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Katherine E. Register

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Why We Fight

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Katherine E. Register

The author argues that warfare has been a part of human existence throughout history, and considers whether humans are doomed by genetic heritage to fight each other.

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Macmillan

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0312310900

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9780312310905

Painted by a Distant Hand

Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest

By: Steven A. LeBlanc

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Painted by a Distant Hand

Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest

By: Steven A. LeBlanc

Highlighting one of the Peabody Museum's most important archaeological expeditions—the excavation of the Swarts Ranch Ruin in southwestern New Mexico by Harriet and Burton Cosgrove in the mid-1920s—Steven LeBlanc's book features rare, never-before-published examples of Mimbres painted pottery, considered by many scholars to be the most unique of all the ancient art traditions of North America. Made between A.D. 1000 and 1150, these pottery bowls and jars depict birds, fish, insects, and mammals that the Mimbres encountered in their daily lives, portray mythical beings, and show humans participating in both ritual and everyday activities. LeBlanc traces the origins of the Mimbres people and what became of them, and he explores our present understanding of what the images mean and what scholars have learned about the Mimbres people in the 75 years since the Cosgroves' expedition.

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120

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Harvard University Press

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0873654021

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9780873654029

Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley

Continuity and Change from AD 750 to 1350

By: Roger Anyon,Steven A. LeBlanc

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Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley

Continuity and Change from AD 750 to 1350

By: Roger Anyon,Steven A. LeBlanc

In the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico, archaeologists have been working for decades to meticulously excavate archaeological sites. Expanding beyond studies that focus on a single pueblo, this volume represents the final report on the excavations of the Mimbres Foundation. It brings together data from a range of pithouse and pueblo sites of different sizes and histories in diverse locations—to refine the current understandings of Mimbres region archaeology in the context of the Greater Southwest. From the end of the Late Pithouse period through the Black Mountain phase, the book provides excellent documentation of the artifacts and data recovered from the sites, addresses models of Mimbres community, and tracks change and continuity in the valley over centuries. In addition, the authors consider the nature of the relationship between the Classic Mimbres period population of the valley and the people of the succeeding Black Mountain phase, as well as relationships among the Black Mountain phase people and those of neighboring parts of the region, including the Casas Grandes world and the Jornada Mogollon area. In Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley two leading archaeologists bring together a trove of unpublished investigations, expanding understandings and setting a course for the future.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816552754

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9780816552757

Painted by a Distant Hand

Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest

By: Steven A. LeBlanc

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Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest

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Symbols in Clay

Seeking Artists’ Identities in Hopi Yellow Ware Bowls

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Lucia R. Henderson

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Symbols in Clay

Seeking Artists’ Identities in Hopi Yellow Ware Bowls

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Lucia R. Henderson

In late prehistory, the ancestors of the present-day Hopi in Arizona created a unique and spectacular painted pottery tradition referred to as Hopi Yellow Ware. This ceramic tradition, which includes Sikyatki Polychrome pottery, inspired Hopi potter Nampeyo’s revival pottery at the turn of the twentieth century. How did such a unique and unprecedented painting style develop? The authors compiled a corpus of almost 2,000 images of Hopi Yellow Ware bowls from the Peabody Museum’s collection and other museums. Focusing their work on the exterior, glyphlike painted designs of these bowls, they found that the “glyphs” could be placed into sets and apparently acted as a kind of signature. The authors argue that part-time specialists were engaged in making this pottery and that relatively few households manufactured Hopi Yellow Ware during the more than 300 years of its production.Extending the Peabody’s influential Awatovi project of the 1930s, Symbols in Clay calls into question deep-seated assumptions about pottery production and specialization in the precontact American Southwest.

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Harvard University Press

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0873652126

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9780873652124

Mimbres Life and Society

The Mattocks Site of Southwestern New Mexico

By: Patricia A. Gilman,Steven A. LeBlanc

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The Mattocks Site of Southwestern New Mexico

By: Patricia A. Gilman,Steven A. LeBlanc

This book offers a detailed account of the archaeological excavation of one of the last possible Mimbres Classic pueblos, including photography of the painted black-on-white pottery--Provided by publisher.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816535639

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9780816535637

Mimbres Pottery

Ancient Art of the American Southwest : Essays

By: J. J. Brody,Catherine J. Scott,Steven A. LeBlanc

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Mimbres Pottery

Ancient Art of the American Southwest : Essays

By: J. J. Brody,Catherine J. Scott,Steven A. LeBlanc

The standard work on lost New Mexico civilization's extraordinary craft. Stunning photos.

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Hudson Hills

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0933920466

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9780933920460

Constant Battles

Why We Fight

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Katherine E. Register

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Why We Fight

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Katherine E. Register

The author argues that warfare has been a part of human existence throughout history, and considers whether humans are doomed by genetic heritage to fight each other.

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Macmillan

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Symbols in Clay

Seeking Artists’ Identities in Hopi Yellow Ware Bowls

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Lucia R. Henderson

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Seeking Artists’ Identities in Hopi Yellow Ware Bowls

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