Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The Household as Analytical Unit: Case Studies from the Americas

John G. Douglass and Nancy Gonlin

Section I: Household Production Organization: Spatial and Social Contexts in the Past and Present

2. Occupation Span and the Organization of Residential Activities: A Cross-Cultural Model and Case Study from the Mesa Verde Region

Mark D. Varien

3. Production and Consumption in the Countryside: A Case Study from the Late Classic Maya Rural Commoner Households at Copán, Honduras

Nancy Gonlin

4. Iroquoian Households: A Mohawk Longhouse at Otstungo, New York

Dean R. Snow

5. Activity Areas and Households in the Late Mississippian Southeast United States: Who Did What Where?

Ramie A. Gougeon

6. The Social Evolution of Potters’ Households in Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico, 1965–1997

Dean E. Arnold

7. Pots and Agriculture: Anasazi Rural Household Production, Long House Valley, Northern Arizona

John G. Douglass and Robert A. Heckman

Section II: Households as Primary Producers: Implications for Domestic Organization

8. Hohokam Household Organization, Sedentism, and Irrigation in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona

Richard Ciolek-Torrello

9. Understanding Households on Their Own Terms: Investigations on Household Sizes, Production, and Longevity at K’axob, Belize

H. Hope Henderson

10. Late Classic Period Terrace Agriculture in the Lowland Maya Area: Modeling the Organization of Terrace Agricultural Activity

L. Theodore Neff

Section III: Inter- and Intrahousehold Organization of Production: Households and Communities

11. Fluctuating Community Organization: Formation and Dissolution of Multifamily Corporate Groups at La Joya, Veracruz, Mexico

Valerie J. McCormack

12. Relationships among Households in the Prehispanic Community of Mesitas in San Agustín, Colombia

Víctor González Fernández

13. Interhousehold versus Intracommunity Comparisons: Incipient Socioeconomic Complexity at Jachakala, Bolivia

Christine Beaule

14. Arrobas, Fanegas, and Mantas: Identifying Continuity and Change in Early Colonial Maya Household Production

Darcy Lynn Wiewall

List of Contributors

Index