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Regional patterns of foraging and mobility: incongruous expectations from the archaeofaunal and lithic evidence
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: 341-358
By: Bayham, Frank E., Shackley, M. Steven.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Bayham and Shackley hypothesize that there will be a change in hunting patterns through time as people in the southwest became more settled. Specifically they state that groups that have high mobility will hunt the animal with the highest ranked return based on what is available but that groups with low mobility, who have to travel farther to hunt profitably, will come to depend on larger mammals such as artiodactyls. This mobility pattern can also be found by examining the lithic tools, in that groups with high mobility will use higher quality lithics, but groups with low mobility will use the available lithic material whether it is high quality or not. Bayham and Shackley compare three Picacho sites with Ventana Cave and with other sites in south-central Arizona.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Fauna
- Lithic industries
- Land use
- 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
- 1983-1984
- 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)
- south-central Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Frank E. Bayham and M. Steven Shackley
- For bibliographical references see document 22: Bayham, Morris, Shackley
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Antiquities