CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN SOUTHWESTERN ARCHAEOLOGY.

The article focuses on the position and points out the future directions in Southwestern archaeological research in the U.S. One of the more interesting of the new directions in Southwestern archaeology has been the appearance over the past decade of a series of studies that can be described as examples of the new archaeology. There have been several studies that have focused upon aspects of prehistoric social organization in the Southwest. Some of it was summarized in a recent book specifically designed to explore the nature of social organization.