essay
A Visit to the master
guilá naquitz : archaic foraging and early agriculture in oaxaca, mexico • Orlando • Published In 1986 • Pages: 511-519
By: Flannery, Kent V..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This contains Flannerys theoretical musings on the scientific method in archaeology, structured as a conversation with his imaginary alter ego, a parody of Carlos Castanedas notorious Yaqui shaman, Don Juan. There are short recapitulations of what might have transpired during the early development of agriculture in respect to adaptive stimuli highlighted by the computer modeling described in Document 44.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Mesoamerican Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- General Middle America and the Caribbean
- 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.
- 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.
- 1: Poor
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Leon G. Doyon ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964-1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 10,750 BP-8670 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Guilá Naquitz Cave, Eastern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kent V. Flannery
- For bibliographical references see document 13:Flannery
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85004051
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico/Mexico--Antiquities