I am wary of edited volumes nowadays, but the University of Arizona Press continues to publish strong work in this format on the ancient American Southwest. This book is a prime example. The volume examines late prehispanic societies in the densely populated Salinas region of New Mexico. Spielmann outlines the agenda in the opening chapter: to examine “multiple dimensions of landscape” that “engage a variety of spatial as well as social scales” during a transformative phase of Pueblo occupation. Her chapter outlines major concepts considered in the volume such as “knowledgescapes,” “taskscapes,” and présence. Drawing on the work of Timothy Ingold and others, these are used to examine the internal reconfigurations of people and place in the Salinas area vis-à-vis processes that transformed the wider Pueblo world.

The next two chapters examine settlement histories in the Jumanos cluster, in the southern part of the Salinas region. Chamberlin and Solometo (Chapter 2) discuss movement and the formation of villages, suggesting that mobility is best viewed as a relational process that involves the “flow of peoples, things, and ideas.” It is “changing mobilities” within the area, not the arrival of migrants from other regions, that explain the structure and distribution of late villages. Tensions within “fields” of mobilities also speak to how power relations were reshaped at multiple scales through intervillage cooperation, ceremonial participation, and the production of valued objects by men versus women. Solometo, Rautman, and Chamberlin (Chapter 3) explore settlement changes in relation to heightened conflict and violence in the area. They highlight the remarkable destruction of one village (Frank's Pueblo) to show that the layout and placement of settlements relate to how Ancestral Pueblo peoples conceptualized “risk landscapes.” Strawhacker and colleagues (Chapter 4) outline a different type of risk landscape, one predicated on “social and environmental strategies to mediate risk food shortfall” (p.103). High-resolution paleoclimatic data are used to model locations that may have experienced heightened food insecurity through time.

The remaining chapters primarily rely on ceramic data. Capone (Chapter 5) examines the procurement of geologic resources in the Salinas region, including those used for pottery production. Capone's use of “taskscapes” (sensu Ingold) to examine how people engaged landscapes makes for one of the most thought-provoking chapters in the volume. She explores intersections of resource, place, and belief in modern Pueblo societies, informed largely by tribal consultation conducted for federal projects in the region. Those conversations reveal how resource procurement and “geological resource engagement” in the Salinas Province may have been embedded in cosmological beliefs and understandings about how the environment and spirit worlds intersected. Graves (Chapter 6) reaches further afield to examine the spatial fluidity of shared identities. He taps Stuart Hall's notion of présence, which Graves defines as “sets of influence, meanings, and material signs or symbols” that (re-)create peoples’ identities. Graves specifically references Hall's notion that identity is both “being” and “becoming” to theorize Pueblo identities through time in the area based on pottery and other material culture. He defines Présence Mogollon, Présence Rio Grande, and Présence Plains as overarching cultural metaphors that shaped Pueblo peoples’ understandings of their identities through time. Clark (Chapter 7) examines the production of Chupadero Black-on-white. She uses compositional data, including neutron activation analysis, to outline pathways of procurement for this late whiteware, which both she and Graves associate with Présence Mogollon. Clark links the waning production of Chupadero in one of the major source areas (Salinas) to Graves's ideas about the emergence of Présence Rio Grande.

In Chapter 8, Mobley-Tanaka considers the early production of Rio Grande glazeware pottery in terms of mobilities, which she defines as complex intersections of peoples, places, and objects (citing the work of Mary Beaudry and Travis Parno). She argues that “layered membership regimes” were “simultaneously” evoked by glazeware bowls produced in the Galisteo Basin and circulated to other parts of the Salinas Province. At the same time, bowls came to reformulate local expressions of broader ritual developments that spread across the Pueblo world. Herhahn and Huntley (Chapter 9) pick up where Mobley-Tanaka leaves off, using glazeware production to examine the “social and ideological knowledgescapes” that shaped Pueblo lives in the Rio Grande area. They emphasize one of the central queries of the volume: how internal changes in the Salinas Province were intertwined with broader historical processes that reshaped the Pueblo world by the 1300s.

This strong collection of essays belongs on the shelf of any scholar interested in new ways of studying landscape and identity in the past. Not only is the conceptual framework fresh, but nearly all chapters present data that were previously unpublished or not widely disseminated. Moreover, several authors draw on consultations with modern Pueblo peoples, reaffirming the strength of inclusive and indigenous archaeologies.