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Tradition Summary: Coastal Andean Early Formative
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 2014 • Pages:
By: Pozorski, Shelia Griffis, Pozorski, Thomas George.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a summary of the Coastal Andean Early Formative tradition. Information is presented on major aspects of the Coastal Andean Early Formative archaeological tradition.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Coastal Andean Early Formative
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2013
- 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
- 3800-3000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- desert coast of southern Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile
- NotesAdditional notes
- Shelia and Thomas Pozorski
- This tradition summary is from the article "Early Coastal Andean Formative," by Sheila and Thomas Pozorski in the Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 7, Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, eds. New York: Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2002. We thank Peter N. Peregrine for bibliographic suggestions.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Andes Region--Antiquities