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Felsite procurement in the Picacho Mountains: the Tucson Aqueduct quarry sites
Prehistoric hunter-gatherers of south central Arizona: the Picacho Reservoir Archaic Project, by Frank E. Bayham, Donald H. Morris, M. Steven Shackley • (13) • Published In 1986 • Pages: 191-216
By: Most, Rachel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Most describes the field work and analyzed the lithic material from the five quarry sites. The analysis concentrated on AZ AA:3:25 as it was the largest of the five quarry sites. Only one site proved to be a true quarry site: AZ AA:3:25. It had high quality felsite outcrops from which people detached usable pieces that were carried elsewhere to produce tools. The other four sites appeared to have been activity areas around areas where raw material outcrops.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Lithic industries
- Mining and quarrying
- Recording and collecting in the field
- Mineral resources
- General tools
- Settlement patterns
- 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
- January-February 1984
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Archaic
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sites AZ AA:3:23 (ASU), AZ AA:3:24 (ASU), AZ AA:3:35 (ASU), AZ AA:7:1 (ASU), and AZ AA:7:2 (ASU), Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Rachel Most
- For bibliographical references see document 22: Bayham, Morris, Shackley
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Antiquities