essay

Social and economic organization

Duncan Project:a study of the occupation duration and settlement pattern of an early Mogollon pithouse village, By Kent G. LightfootTempe, ArizonaPublished In 1984 • Pages: 83-111

By: Lightfoot, Kent G., Most, Rachel.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this chapter Lightfoot and Most look for evidence concerning demographic structure, subsistence production intensification, and social organization. They find there is no indication of marked population growth and there is no evidence that the people at Duncan village were storing surplus agricultural goods or converting surpluses into non-perishable trade goods. Nor is there evidence for rudimentary managerial hierarchy. Instead, households appear to have been autonomous units that were only slightly integrated into the village.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Community structure
Settlement patterns
Production and supply
Household
External trade
traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Mogollon
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
1980-1981
Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
1600 BP-1500 BP (AD 400-AD 500)
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Duncan site (AZ CC:8:2(ASU)), Arizona, United States
NotesAdditional notes
by Kent G. Lightfoot and Rachel Most
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Mogollon culture
Indians of North America