essay
The excavation of Guilá Naquitz
guilá naquitz : archaic foraging and early agriculture in oaxaca, mexico • Orlando • Published In 1986 • Pages:
By: Flannery, Kent V., Moser, Christopher L., Maranca, Silvia.
Abstract
The three authors describe preparations for, and techniques of, excavations at Guilá Naquitz Cave. The emphasis is on stratigraphy in order to define discrete occupation levels and isolate later disturbances and intrusions (for detail on absolute dating, see Document 27). Maps of the location of major finds for each stratigraphic ”zone“ or living floor are convenient references for later chapters that discuss artifact categories separately, or that statistically group artifact distributions to delineate activity areas within the cave. Only zones C and B (subdivided into B3, B2, and B1) pertain to the Early Archaic. (Later in the volume evidence for subsistence strategies employing wild resources from Late Paleo-Indian Period zones E and D, dating up to 2000 or more years earlier, is frequently melded with that from the Early Archaic, as those strategies persist with little to no modification despite incipient agriculture.)
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- General Middle America and the Caribbean
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Leon G. Doyon ; 2005
- Field Date
- 1964-1966
- Coverage Date
- 10,750 BP-1250 BP
- Coverage Place
- Guilá Naquitz Cave, Eastern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
- Notes
- Kent V. Flannery, Chris L. Moser, and Silvia Maranca
- For bibliographical references see document 13:Flannery
- LCCN
- 85004051
- LCSH
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico/Mexico--Antiquities