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Faunal study of unworked mammalian bones: [appendix 5]
Hohokam, desert farmers & craftsmen : excavations at Snaketown, 1964-1965, by Emil W. Haury • Tucson • Published In 1976 • Pages: 367-373
By: Greene, Jerry L., Mathews, Thomas M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Green and Mathews analyzed the mammalian bones from Snaketown to learn about the meat diet there. The people at Snaketown were primarily eating rabbits, hares, and deer. Deer outranks all the other game food found in terms of meat weight and its importance to the diet.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fauna
- Diet
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hohokam
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Faunal Analyst
- 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
- 1964-1965
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2300-900 BP (300 BC-AD 1100)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Snaketown, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jerry L. Greene and Thomas W. Mathews
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 74031610
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hohokam culture
- Snaketown Site (Ariz.)