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Spatial analysis of Guilá Naquitz living floors: an introduction to part VI

guilá naquitz : archaic foraging and early agriculture in oaxaca, mexico • Orlando • Published In 1986 • Pages: 321-329

By: Flannery, Kent V..

Abstract

In this preview to the following series of chapters in which statistical analysis are performed to delineate activity areas within each living floor in Guilá Naquitz Cave (Documents 39-42), Flannery establishes principles for the interpretation of artifact distributions, commenting on previous attempts at spatial analysis for other sites and cultures. Hypotheses about subsistence strategies for testing are formulated employing ethnographic analogy and extrapolation from the survey data for the modern environment. The raw data employed in the spatial analyses is provided in tables. Only the data for stratigraphic zones C and B pertain to the Early Archaic. (Theoretical background, procedural concerns, and critiques of other projects are indexed, respectively, for THEORETICAL ORIENTATION IN RESEARCH AND ITS RESULTS [121], ORGANIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF RESULTS OF RESEARCH [128] and/or REVIEWS AND CRITIQUES [114].)

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

3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent

Analyst

Leon G. Doyon ; 2005

Field Date

1964-1966

Coverage Date

10,750 BP-8670 BP

Coverage Place

Guilá Naquitz Cave, eastern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico

Notes

Kent V. Flannery

For bibliographical references see document 13:Flannery

LCCN

85004051

LCSH

Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico/Mexico--Antiquities