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Overview
This collection features scholarly work by Andrew I. Duff, professor and chair for the department of anthropology at Washington State University. Duff's research focuses on the increasing complexity of social and ritual institutions, problems of integration and emergent inequality as scale increases within the context of middle range societies. He works with the archaeological identification of communities and the social implications of major settlement, structural, and demographic changes associated with Puebloan (Anasazi) communities between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries in the American Southwest. He has researched different temporal components of these transitions at different points in his career. His dissertation research was a study of changing social identities in the Western Pueblo area of northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico during the A.D. 1300s, a period of extensive social upheaval, migration, ritual elaboration, and regional interaction. His current, long-term research project explores similar issues during the earlier florescence of the regional system centered on Chaco Canyon during the 11th and 12th centuries.
Recent Submissions
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Obsidian Evidence of Interaction and Migration from the Mesa Verde Region, Southwest Colorado
(American Antiquity, 2011)A growing body of evidence demonstrates that ancestral Pueblo people living in the central Mesa Verde region of the U. S. Southwest maintained long-distance contacts with other Pueblo peoples. Questions of Pueblo interactions ... -
History and Process in Village Formation: Context and Contrasts from the Northern Southwest
(Society for American Archaeology, 2008)Two processes characterize the later pre-contact history (twelfth-fourteenth centuries) of the northern part of the American Southwest: aggregation of people into large towns and depopulation of large regions. These processes ... -
On the Fringe: Community Dynamics at Cox Ranch Pueblo
(New Mexico State University, 2005)Cox Ranch Pueblo is the center of a sizable Chaco-period (A.D. 1050-1130) community in the southern Cibola region. The Cox Ranch Pueblo Community Research Project has been exploring the connections distant communities may ... -
Scale, Interaction and Regional Analysis in Late Pueblo Prehistory
(University Press of Colorado, 2000)Examination of regional-scale processes in prehistory requires explicit consideration of what we mean by regions. Definitions vary with research interests and the times, but the boundaries of regions are usually defined ... -
The Process of Migration in the Late Prehistoric Southwest. In Migration and Reorganization: The Pueblo IV Period in the American Southwest
(Anthropological Research Papers, 1998)Greater understanding of migration behavior can provide southwestern archaeologists with new insights into prehistoric social dynamics. However, this requires reorienting the way in which archaeologists approach the study ... -
Ceramic Micro-Seriation: Types or Attributes?
(American Antiquity, 1996)Micro-seriation using attributes of decorated ceramics has been shown to accurately refine intrasite and intersite relative dating. Using data from Pueblo de los Muertos, a nucleated town in west-central New Mexico, this ... -
The Scope of Post-Chacoan Community Organization in the Lower Zuni River Region
(Anthropological Research Papers, 1994)This chapter addresses the scope of post-Chacoan community organization in the lower Zuni River region, and suggests a methodology for examining community organization elsewhere. The chapter is divided into several sections. ...