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The Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene archaeology of the Great Basin
Journal of world prehistory • 11 (2) • Published In 1997 • Pages: 161-236
By: Beck, Charlotte, Jones, George Thomas.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Beck and Jones don't distinguish between the Paleoindian and Early Archaic periods. Instead, they refer to the population living in the Great Basin during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene as Paleoarchaic. Where it was possible to distinguish between the Paleoindian and the Early Archaic time periods only the data that pertain to the Early Archaic time period were marked for OCM (Outline of Material Cultures) codes. Beck and Jones have written a review of the Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene archaeological record in the Great Basin. They focus on the lithic technologies there because that is what has survived and they discuss where sites are located and why. Most Great Basin sites are surface ones with no stratigraphy which has made it difficult to determine the chronological order of the various projectile points. Recent studies, however, indicate that some of the stemmed projectile points were probably multiuse tools rather than just hunting weapons.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- Settlement patterns
- Land use
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Desert Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 11,500-7500 BP (9500-5500 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Great Basin; California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Utah; United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Charlotte Beck and George T. Jones
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-236)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87655790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Antiquities