Cohonina Social Organization And The Role Of Forts In Integration And Interaction: A View From The Pittsberg Community.

This thesis explores the role of forts in the sociopolitical organization of a prehistoric people known as the Cohonina through the application of settlement systems analysis and functional studies. The primary objective of this thesis is to test ideas of Cohonina sociopolitical organization through an examination of the functional characteristics of forts and their positions on the landscape using a combination of theory derived from settlement and landscape archaeology, deployed in a geographic information system work environment. A Cohonina fort site known as the Pittsberg Fort Complex, was placed in its community context through broad scale survey. Artifact, architectural, and settlement data from that site were compared with other recognized Cohonina fort sites in order to establish the function of these features on the intra-community level. Visibility analyses between the Pittsberg Fort Complex and other Cohonina sites were conducted to explore the potential of forts as nodes in a regional visual communication network integrating territorially distinct communities. The results of these analyses determined the primary function of Cohonina forts was not defensive, but integrative. Cohonina forts were built environments wherein ritual behavior was acted out that integrated Cohonina society on both the intra- and inter-community scales. These findings support the mountain-centric model of Cohonina social organization which describes semi-autonomous and essentially sedentary communities centered around the major hills and mountains of the Coconino plateau with an economy that was heavily reliant on intra- and inter-regional trade networks that exerted strong integrating forces on a political economic system prone to segmentation and differentiation

Smart rhetoric: dumb city

This research concerns the densest city in the world, Mumbai, and the environmental impact of the proposed redevelopment proposals that are likely to increase densities from about 3,500persons per hectare to about 5,000, achieved by demolition of existing 3-5 storey height buildings and replacing them with towers averaging 40 floors. What has become known in Mumbai as ‘vertical with a vengeance’ (Rathod, 2012). The study investigates the environmental impact of a proposed redevelopment of a 16.5-acre site. Of the many redevelopment proposals in Mumbai, this is in the most advanced stage and is an exemplar for both Mumbai in its ambition to become a ‘global city’ and the Indian Government who have identified it as a key development in their proposal to achieve 100 ‘smart’ cities that are claimed to be sustainable, environmentally friendly and ‘smart’ (Government of India, 2015). The study uses the extended urban metabolism (Newman et al, 1996) model as a basis of analysis and predicts the flows of water supply (reticulated and rainwater harvesting), drainage, solid waste, electricity supply, potential for solar energy, fuel for transport, carbon dioxide production and sequestration. From the results of the sample site, the analysis is then extrapolated to the overall impact if similar developments were to be carried out, as is proposed, across all of the Island city of Mumbai

Annual Report of the University, 1983-1984, Volumes 1-4

The 1983-84 athletic year could best be characterized as the second vintage year for the women. This was UNM\u27s second complete season under the auspices of the NCAA, and the High Country Athletic Conference, although it was the first year that the Conference had a full time commissioner at the helm. For a second year, the HCAC awarded the High Point Trophy to the school whose teams finished the highest in the eight recognized Conference sports. Again New Mexico was edged out by Brigham Young University for the honors by 4 1/2 points. The women\u27s golf team captured the Conference title, and no other team finished lower than fourth place. Altogether UNM had thirty-eight women athletes selected to be members of their respective All-Conference Teams. Two others were named to their All-Conference Second Team, and three athletes received Honorable Mention