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4 Experiencing Social Change: Life during the Mimbres Classic Transformation
Author(s) -
Hegmon Michelle,
Nelson Margaret C.,
Schollmeyer Karen Gust
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
archeological papers of the american anthropological association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1551-8248
pISSN - 1551-823X
DOI - 10.1111/apaa.12074
Subject(s) - period (music) , transformation (genetics) , social transformation , social life , social change , history , sociology , aesthetics , art , social science , political science , law , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
What was it like to live during a time of social transformation? To live during the culture changes and depopulation at the end of the Classic Mimbres period, ca. 1130 C.E.? As part of the Archaeology of the Human Experience we address these questions with an evidence‐based account of what people did and how the changes affected their lives. Where possible and reasonable, we make people the subjects of our sentences. This approach leads to the conclusions that most changes—such as the end of a land tenure system—affected different people in different ways. The approach also raises questions about what happened to the artists when their artistic tradition ended .