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The agricultural transition in the northern Southwest: patterns in the current chronometric data
Kiva • 60 (2) • Published In 1994 • Pages: 165-189
By: Smiley, Francis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Smiley examines the available data on the chronology of the transition to agriculture in the Southwest. Smiley also discusses the radiocarbon data and the kinds of materials used in the dating. The most accurate materials include cultigens and wild annual plants as these materials are usually collected the same year they grew. Wood that is introduced into an archaeological site might have been lying dead on the ground for decades before it is brought to the site for burning. 'The current data indicate that the spread of agriculture across the Southwest may have been quite rapid and that a considerable period of slow or no population growth may have followed the initial spread in some regions.' (page 186).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Tillage
- Sociocultural trends
- Settlement patterns
- 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
- 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
- 4000-1600 BP (2000 BC-AD 400)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah; United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Francis E. Smiley
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-189)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 41020657
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Basket-Maker Indians--Antiquities