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Tradition Summary: Middle - Late Desert Archaic
Human Relations Area Files • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 2011 • Pages:
By: Wills, W. H. (Wirt Henry).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a summary of the Middle - Late Desert Archaic Tradition. Information is presented on major aspects of the Middle - Late Desert Archaic 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)
- Middle-Late Desert Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2011
- 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.
- 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; 2010
- 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
- ca. 8000–500 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, southwestern Colorado, Utah) and northern Mexico (Chihuahua and Sonora)
- NotesAdditional notes
- Wirt H. Wills and Peter N. Peregrine
- The major tradition summary is from " Middle Desert Archaic (Southwest Archaic, Western Archaic)" by Wirt H. Wills and "Late Desert Archaic (Proto-Numic)" by Peter N. Peregrine, from the Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 6, Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, eds. New YorK: Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2001. We thank Peter N. Peregrine for bibliographic suggestions. Sarah Berry wrote the collection overview in 2010. The indexing notes were written by Sarah Berry in 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Antiquities