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Lukachukai and Salina Springs: Late Archaic/Early Basketmaker habitation sites in the Chinle Valley, northeastern Arizona
Kiva • 60 (2) • Published In 1994 • Pages: 203-218
By: Gilpin, Dennis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Lukachukai and Salina Springs were both discovered during construction operations and were investigated as emergency excavations. Lukachukai is a late Archaic/Basketmaker II site containing pit structures, a bell-shaped pit, hearths, chipped stone tools, shell, and maize among other plant remains. Salina Springs also has a late Archaic/Basketmaker II occupation with pit houses, midden, hearths, chipped stone, bone, and maize. No manos or metates were found, but neither site was fully excavated. Samples of the maize were directly dated to 3495-3100 BP, one of the earliest dates for maize in this area.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Cereal agriculture
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Dwellings
- Processing of basic materials
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Basketmaker
- 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
- article
- 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; 2009
- 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
- 3386-3319 BP and 3049-2000 BP (1386-1319 BC and 1049-1 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lukachukai (AZ-I-39-53) and Salina Springs (AZ-I-63-7), Chinle Valley, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Dennis Gilpin
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 218)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 41020657
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Basket-Maker Indians--Antiquities