Book
Early prehistoric agriculture in the American Southwest
School of American Research Press ; Distributed by University of Washington Press • Santa Fe, N.M : [Seattle] • Published In 1988 • Pages:
By: Wills, W. H. (Wirt Henry), School Of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Wills proposes a new hypothesis for the adoption of agriculture in the Southwest that emphasizes social organization and the socioeconomic system rather than climate and the environment. He points out that hunter-gatherers will not acquire domesticated plants until it fits into their existing settlement pattern, foraging system, and annual cycle. He examines data from several sites to show a pattern of a more sedentary settlement system arising before the adoption of agriculture. Agriculture also seems to have been adopted when it allowed hunter-gatherers to more closely watch the critical resources in their area. For instance, in the Mogollon Highlands it allowed people to wait for and know when pinon pine nuts and deer would be available in the fall.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Sociocultural trends
- Tillage
- Settlement patterns
- Land use
- 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
- Book
- 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
- 1981 and 1983
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 7000–1800 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, United States; Chihuahua, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- W. H. Wills
- Spine title: Early prehistoric agriculture
- 'A School of American Research resident scholar book'
- Revision of the author's thesis
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-179)and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 88023591
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Agriculture--Southwest, New
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities
- Agriculture--Southwest, New--Origin
- Southwest, New--Antiquities