151 pp., illus., maps, tables, biblio., paper covers. 1980 $8.95 A significant contribution to our understanding of prehistoric cultural development in an important but relatively unstudied region, the northern Southwest. The author suggests that population growth is the primary stimulus underlying all cultural evolution, and points out that there has been insufficient attention given to this factor in the past, particularly in the American Southwest. After an excellent review of the

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... Glassow develops a theoretical model involving agricultural field types, agricultural facilities, settlement patterns, and adaptive stages, and applies his model to the extensive archaeological evidence that he and other scholars have painstakingly accumulated in the region under consideration.