essay
Chronology
Excavation of Pintada rockshelter on McGregor firing range in New Mexico, by Richard S. MacNeish • (12) • Published In 1998 • Pages: 33-168
By: MacNeish, Richard S., Wilner, Peggy.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 obsidian shaped into a cruciform), bone and shell beads and ornaments, debitage, and ceramics - which seems to come from only two vessels. They also discuss the dating of the shelter.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Weapons
- General tools
- Food preparation
- Typologies and classifications
- Lithic industries
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Middle-Late Desert Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1990-1993
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 8000–900 BP (6000 BC–AD 1100)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pintada Rockshelter, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- R. S. MacNeish and Peggy Wilner
- For bibliographical references see document 1: MacNeish
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Antiquities