essay
Wild food resources of the Mitla Caves: productivity, seasonality, and annual variation
guilá naquitz : archaic foraging and early agriculture in oaxaca, mexico • Orlando • Published In 1986 • Pages: 255-264
By: Flannery, Kent V..
Abstract
Results of botanical surveys of the eastern Valley of Oaxaca undertaken between 1966-1976 are summarized for the purpose of comparison to archaeological foodstuffs from Guilá Naquitz Cave in order to better reconstruct procurement strategies. Flannery considers both seasonal and year-to-year variability in plant productivity for the major botanical zones, emphasizing caloric potential. There are some comments on probable diet and eating habits in light of the archaeological data. (Portions of the text concerned largely with organization and assessment of the data for comparative purposes are indexed for ORGANIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF RESULTS OF RESEARCH [128].)
- 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
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Leon G. Doyon ; 2005
- Field Date
- 1964-1966
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Eastern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
- Notes
- Kent V. Flannery
- For bibliographical references see document 13:Flannery
- LCCN
- 85004051
- LCSH
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico/Mexico--Antiquities