Diagnostic Material Attributes

Ceramic Technology

Weapons

Utensils

Bibliographies in Sources

Preservation and Storage of Food

Land Use

Dwellings

Settlement Patterns

Community Structure

Location

Morbidity

Division of Labor by Gender

Gender Roles and Issues

Cultural Participation

Chronologies and Culture Sequences

Mineral Resources

Internal Trade

Visiting and Hospitality

Inter-Community Relations

Public Structures

Fauna

Flora

Identification

Collecting

Hunting and Trapping

Food Preparation

Diet

General Tools

Production and Supply

Mats and Basketry

Building Interiors and Arrangement

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Visual Arts

Material Not Relevant

Climate

Reviews and Critiques

Topography and Geology

Post Depositional Processes

Cordage

Normal Garb

Personal Grooming

Woodworking

Burden Carrying

Ethnophysiology

Ornament

Bone, Horn, and Shell Technology

Acculturation and Culture Contact

Tillage

Cultural Identity and Pride

Real Property

Burial Practices and Funerals

Population

Postures

Cereal Agriculture

Vegetable Production

Lithic Industries

Status, Role, and Prestige

Family

Community Heads

TRADITION SUMMARY: LATE DESERT ARCHAIC

ORIENTATION

ENVIRONMENT

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ALTERNATIVE NAMES

ABSOLUTE TIME PERIOD

RELATIVE TIME PERIOD

LOCATION

DIAGNOSTIC MATERIAL ATTRIBUTES

REGIONAL SUBTRADITIONS

IMPORTANT SITES

CLIMATE

TOPOGRAPHY

GEOLOGY

BIOTA

SETTLEMENT SYSTEMS

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION

HOUSING

POPULATION HEALTH AND DISEASE

SUBSISTENCE

WILD FOODS

DOMESTIC FOODS

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

UTENSILS

ORNAMENTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

DIFFERENTIAL ACCESS OR CONTROL OF RESOURCES

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

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The Middle-Late Desert Archaic tradition extends from 8000 to 500 BP in southwestern United States (Arizona, New Mexico, southwestern Colorado, and Utah) and northern Mexico (Chihuahua and Sonora). The people were primarily hunters and gatherers. At the end of the time period they began to use domesticated maize, squash and, lastly, beans that were introduced from Mesoamerica. They lived in small, mobile social groups using huts or pithouses mainly for storage. After 2000 BP the Middle-Late Desert Archaic is distinguished from overlapping traditions by evidence for relatively greater reliance on hunting and gathering, and by the absence of ceramics.

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