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Basketmaker II lithic technology and mobility patterns on Cedar Mesa, southeast Utah
Kiva • 60 (2) • Published In 1994 • Pages: 277-288
By: Nelson, Reid J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Nelson tested the theory that a more sedentary settlement pattern would be accompanied by changes in lithic technology. Specifically there would be a decline in standardized core reduction and formal tool production and an increase in expedient flake tool production. Nelson analyzed the lithic materials collected by Matson during the Cedar Mesa Project and examined the changes in the data from the time periods of late Basketmaker II, Basketmaker III, and Pueblo II-III. He determined 'the relationship between mobility patterns and lithic technological organization is not absolutely clear. It may be possible that the increased use of unstandardized cores is as much the result of immediate raw material availability and/or a change in projectile point technology as a change in the degree of mobility' (page 286).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Lithic industries
- General tools
- Weapons
- 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
- 1800-1300 BP (AD 200-700)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cedar Mesa, southeastern Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Reid J. Nelson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-288)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 41020657
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Basket-Maker Indians--Antiquities