Barbara J. Roth is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Roth specializes in studying prehistoric cultures in the American Southwest. She is the author of Agricultural Beginnings in the American Southwest.

“This volume is a welcome addition to the literature on farmer/forager communities of the Pithouse period in the broader Mimbres region. It demonstrates the variability found in Pithouse communities by concentrating on the upland, nonriverine community of La Gila Encantada and provides a tightly argued and well-supported analysis of mobility, subsistence, and social organization in the more rural areas of the Mimbres system.”—Tammy Stone, author of Point of Pines Pueblo: A Mountain Mogollon Aggregated Community“Most of what we know about the Mimbres region comes from large pueblo sites near the Mimbres River. In this volume, Roth summarizes the results of excavations at La Gila Encantada, a Late Pithouse village site in the uplands of the Mimbres region. The data show significant differences between the uplands and the lowlands in terms of mobility strategies, agricultural dependence, and household organization. This archaeological site provides a major contribution to our knowledge of the variation in Pithouse period occupations across the whole Mimbres region.”—Alison E. Rautman, author of Constructing Community: The Archaeology of Early Villages in Central New Mexico

Barbara J. Roth is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Roth specializes in studying prehistoric cultures in the American Southwest. She is the author of Agricultural Beginnings in the American Southwest.

“This volume is a welcome addition to the literature on farmer/forager communities of the Pithouse period in the broader Mimbres region. It demonstrates the variability found in Pithouse communities by concentrating on the upland, nonriverine community of La Gila Encantada and provides a tightly argued and well-supported analysis of mobility, subsistence, and social organization in the more rural areas of the Mimbres system.”—Tammy Stone, author of Point of Pines Pueblo: A Mountain Mogollon Aggregated Community“Most of what we know about the Mimbres region comes from large pueblo sites near the Mimbres River. In this volume, Roth summarizes the results of excavations at La Gila Encantada, a Late Pithouse village site in the uplands of the Mimbres region. The data show significant differences between the uplands and the lowlands in terms of mobility strategies, agricultural dependence, and household organization. This archaeological site provides a major contribution to our knowledge of the variation in Pithouse period occupations across the whole Mimbres region.”—Alison E. Rautman, author of Constructing Community: The Archaeology of Early Villages in Central New Mexico