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Referencesessay 1998 • MacNeish, Richard S.
Middle-Late Desert Archaic • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document contains the references for documents nos. 2-6....Archaeological field techniques and stratigraphyessay 1998 • MacNeish, Richard S.
Middle-Late Desert Archaic • North America > Southwest and Basin
MacNeish describes the field techniques used in excavating at Pintada Rockshelter, why they located the excavation units where they did, and how records were kept. The stratigraphy is also described....The way of life of the Pintada cultural phasesessay 1998 • MacNeish, Richard S.
Middle-Late Desert Archaic • North America > Southwest and Basin
MacNeish and Wilner summarize the findings from each phase at Pintada Rockshelter and compare the results with other nearby sites dating the same time period....Conclusionsessay 1998 • MacNeish, Richard S.
Middle-Late Desert Archaic • North America > Southwest and Basin
MacNeish compares other Archaic sites in the Jornada and in the Southwest and northern Mexico. He summarizes what is known about the various archaeological traditions in these regions and touches upon their similarities and differences. He is particu...Preliminary investigations of the Archaic in the region of Las Cruces, New Mexicoessay 1993 • MacNeish, Richard S.
Middle-Late Desert Archaic • North America > Southwest and Basin
MacNeish, in partnership with the Andover Foundation for Archaeological Research, has been investigating the origins of agriculture and settled life. To answer some of this question this document uses data from archaeological sites in southern New Me...Tradition summaryessay 2006 • Macneish, Richard S.
Early Mesoamerican Archaic • Middle America and the Caribbean > General Middle America and the Caribbean
This is a summary of the Early Mesoamerican Archaic....The food-gathering and incipient agriculture stage of prehistoric Middle Americaessay 1964 • MacNeish, Richard S.
Early Mesoamerican Archaic • Middle America and the Caribbean > General Middle America and the Caribbean
In this review of the archaeological record to date for the entirety of the Mesoamerican Archaic, MacNeish divides the country into four culture regions, concentrating on the ”Mesoamerica“ area reaching from Chiapas northward through Tamaulipas for w...Summary of the cultural sequence and its implications in the Tehuacan Valleyessay 1972 • MacNeish, Richard S.
Highland Mesoamerican Archaic • Middle America and the Caribbean > General Middle America and the Caribbean
MacNeish summarizes the cultural sequences for the Tehuacan valley, including the ones for the Archaic. He also speculates on the changes that caused the shift from one time period to another....Chronologyessay 1998 • MacNeish, Richard S. & Wilner, Peggy
Middle-Late Desert Archaic • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this document MacNeish and Wilner describe and type the projectile points, nonhaftable bifaces, unifaces, ground and pecked stone (manos, metates, milling stones, mullers, paint palettes, hammerstones, and mortars, and a stone pipe and a ground ob...Carbon 13/12 and nitrogen 15/14 isotope ratios in skeletons from the Jornada areaessay 1993 • MacNeish, Richard S. & Marino, Bruno
Middle-Late Desert Archaic • North America > Southwest and Basin
MacNeish and Marino discuss the results of 'stable isotope ratios of carbon and nitrogen derived from bone collagen to provide estimates of diet' (page 117) in the Jornada region. Their analysis 'indicates a trend toward greater consumption of C4 pla...Reconstruction of the way of life in excavated Jornada sitesessay 1993 • MacNeish, Richard S. & Wilner, Peggy
Middle-Late Desert Archaic • North America > Southwest and Basin
MacNeish and Wilner, using the data Dawson generated in his experimental work, determine how the stone tools from the various sites were used. This information, along with the rest of the data, is used to reconstruct the way of life for the sequentia...Excavations in the Ajalpan locality in the Valley centeressay 1972 • MacNeish, Richard S. & Peterson, Frederick A.
Highland Mesoamerican Archaic • Middle America and the Caribbean > General Middle America and the Caribbean
Most of this chapter is outside the time period for Highland Mesoamerican Archaic except for the last page. On that page the authors present a summary of the cultural sequence in the Ajalpan locality and describe the Coxcatlan and Abejas phases. They...The archaic Chihuahua traditionBook 1987 • MacNeish, Richard S. & Beckett, Patrick H.
Middle-Late Desert Archaic • North America > Southwest and Basin
MacNeish and Beckett describe their findings from the first three years of investigations in the Las Cruces area and south-central New Mexico. They provide a cultural summary for the Chihuahua Tradition that is composed of the following: Gardner Spri...The Preceramic of Mesoamericaarticle 1983 • MacNeish, Richard S. & Nelken-Terner, Antoinette
Early Mesoamerican Archaic • Middle America and the Caribbean > General Middle America and the Caribbean
In this overview of the entire Preceramic, MacNeish and Nelken-Turner handily distinguish the Early Archaic by Maritime (Caribbean coastal), Santa Marta (Chiapas and Oaxaca), El Riego (Puebla and Valley of Mexico), Infiernillo (NE Mexico) and Cochise...Introductionessay 1972 • MacNeish, Richard S. & Nelken-Terner, Antoinette
Highland Mesoamerican Archaic • Middle America and the Caribbean > General Middle America and the Caribbean
This article serves as an introduction to a series of studies on the archaeology of the Tehuacan Valley appearing in the eHRAF archaeology collection on the Highland Mesoamerican Archaic period NY40 as documents 4-10. The authors discuss the methods ...Excavations in the locality of the El Riego Oasisessay 1972 • MacNeish, Richard S. & García Cook, Angel
Highland Mesoamerican Archaic • Middle America and the Caribbean > General Middle America and the Caribbean
This is a detailed study of the excavations by Richard S MacNeish and Angel Garcia Cook at the El Riego cave site between April 24 and May 29, 1961. The site includes ten occupation levels ranging in time from 7500 BC to 1550 AD. Although the text de...Excavations in the Lencho Diego locality in the dissected alluvial slopesessay 1972 • MacNeish, Richard S. & García Cook, Angel
Highland Mesoamerican Archaic • Middle America and the Caribbean > General Middle America and the Caribbean
In this document MacNeish and Garcia Cook present a detailed study of the cultural stratigraphy of two cave sites in the Lencho Diego locality of Mexico (Purron and Abejas caves). Purron cave, the major focus of this work, consists of thirty-one occu...Excavations in the San Marcos locality in the travertine slopesessay 1972 • MacNeish, Richard S. & García Cook, Angel
Highland Mesoamerican Archaic • Middle America and the Caribbean > General Middle America and the Caribbean
MacNeish and Garcia Cook write about their fieldwork in the San Marcos locality in the Tehuacan valley of Mexico. Several areas were excavated that contained strata (Coxcatlan or Abejas phases) within the time period. MacNeish and Garcia Cook briefly...The archaeological reconnaissanceessay 1972 • MacNeish, Richard S. & Peterson, Frederick A./Neely, James A.
Highland Mesoamerican Archaic • Middle America and the Caribbean > General Middle America and the Caribbean
This document is a detailed archaeological reconnaissance of settlement pattern types in the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico from the Ajuereado period (ca. 10,000 BC) to the Late Venta Salada period around 1521 AD. These settlement pattern types are discus...The preceramic of Mesoamericaarticle 1983 • MacNeish, Richard S. & Nelken-Terner, Antoinette
Lowland Mesoamerican Archaic • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
MacNeish and Nelken-Terner summarize the last 40,000 years of perhistory in Mesoamerica. The last few pages discuss the Archaic from 7000 B.P. to 4000 B.P. Only a few sies from the Lowlands are discussed as most of the work at that time had been done...Bibliographyessay 1972 • MacNeish, Richard S. et al.
Highland Mesoamerican Archaic • Middle America and the Caribbean > General Middle America and the Caribbean
This document consists in its entirety of bibliographical citations related primarily to the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico....The evolution of maize in the Jornada region of New Mexico and its implications for the Southwestessay 1993 • Upham, Steadman & MacNeish, Richard S.
Middle-Late Desert Archaic • North America > Southwest and Basin
Upham and MacNeish discuss the different types of corn that have been found in this region and the dates associated with them. Their data indicate agriculture was earlier here than in the rest of the southwest and that it probably arrived via the tra...Introductionessay 1998 • Smith, R. J. T. & MacNeish, Richard S.
Middle-Late Desert Archaic • North America > Southwest and Basin
Smith and MacNeish discuss the research objectives and theoretical orientation of their research in the Jornada region, which is basically the origins of agriculture, and how they came to excavate at Pintada Rockshelter. They describe the environment...Excavations in the Coxcatlan locality in the alluvial slopesessay 1972 • Fowler, Melvin L. (Melvin Leo) & MacNeish, Richard S.
Highland Mesoamerican Archaic • Middle America and the Caribbean > General Middle America and the Caribbean
Fowler and MacNeish write about their fieldwork in the Coxcatlan locality in the Tehuacan valley of Mexico. Two areas were excavated that contained strata within the time period: Coxcatlan cave and Coxcatlan terrace. Fowler and MacNeish briefly descr...