A reassessment of matrilocality in Chacoan culture. Commentary. Authors' reply (original) (raw)

American Antiquity, 2002

Abstract

Recent research presented in American Antiquity (66: 36-46) proposed that the prehistoric Puebloan communities of Chaco Canyon in the American Southwest conformed to a matrilocal pattern of postmarital residence. The inference of matrilocality at Chaco Canyon was based on the assumption that a number of the most likely modern descendants of the Chacoans are matrilocal, including the present-day Zuni and Hopi Indians, and that the household floor area had increased to a level indicative of female-based residence. The ...

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