13. Crises as Opportunities for Culture Change

Abstract

In 1927, prominent southwestern archaeologist A.V. Kidder invited some three dozen archaeologists and a few other scientists, accompanied by assorted family members, to meet at Pecos, New Mexico and attempt to “arrive at an understanding in regard to underlying problems, the methods of accumulating and presenting data, and (last, but in some ways most important) a standardised nomenclature for artifacts, decorative motifs, and periods of culture” (letter from Kidder to Clark Wissler [Woodbury..