Long-Term, Constant, and Stable Identities and Social Relationships with and within the Mimbres Region of Southwestern New Mexico

There are regions that appear in archaeology text-books—Mimbres, Chaco, Hohokam—and there are regions that do not, including the San Simon Branch of the Mogollon and many others described in this volume. And there are regions within the textbook areas that are rarely discussed, such as the Upper Gila River part of the Mimbres. As we argue in this volume, however, these regions are their own places in which people formed and maintained lives and identities different than those surrounding them. In the examples presented in this chapter, different groups or populations of people whom archaeologists call “Mimbres” or