Archaeology of the Southwest

Catalog description

A broad introduction to the archaeology and the peoples, past and present, of the greater southwest. The course covers the history of archaeological research in the region, one of the most intensively studied in the world. It traces cultural developments from the earliest evidence of humans in the Americas in the late Pleistocene through the adoption of farming, the emergence of regional systems, the population movements that culminated in the formation of today’s indigenous communities, and the major changes brought on by Spanish colonization and the eventual conquest of much of the region by the United States.