essay
Groundstone artifacts
galaz ruin, by roger anyon and steven a. leblanc • Albuquerque • Published In 1984 • Pages: 247-262
By: Lancaster, James A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Lancaster analyzed the ground stone artifacts, specifically the manos and metates. These tools are made out of four types of stone. The Manos can be divided into two types (Type I and II) and the metates can be divided into four types (through-trough, trough, slab, and basin). Some of the changes in these types through time correspond to how food was processed to increase the efficiency of the grinding process and to reduce the amount of time it took to process the corn. Lancaster looked at the striation patterns on the tools for clues as to how food was processed. He concluded that there was a surprising amount of wild plant foods processed on the metates.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Food preparation
- General tools
- Lithic industries
- Sociocultural trends
- Mineral resources
- Typologies and classifications
- 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
- 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Late Pithouse - Classic Mimbres periods; 1350 BP - 850 BP (AD 650-AD 1150)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Galaz, Mimbres Valley, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By James Lancaster
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 83027403
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mimbres culture
- Galaz Site (N.M.)