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Interpretating use of animal resources at prehistoric American Southwest communities
ancient southwestern community : models and methods for the study of prehistoric social organization • Albuquerque • Published In 1994 • Pages: 67-76
By: Szuter, Christine R., Gillespie, William B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Szuter and Gillespie discuss the changes in analysis and interpretation of animal remains. In particular, field recovery techniques are better so we now know there was considerable exploitation of small mammals. In many sites in the Southwest the meat diet consists mostly of lagomorphs. Changes from cottontail to jackrabbit (which means a change in vegetation from more brush to less) can be due to people and crops culturally modifying the environment. When examining artiodactyl bones archaeologists need to determine whether they were hunted by the people at the site being examined, whether the meat was traded in, or whether just the bones were traded in for tool use. They also point out that faunal exploitation was similar throughout the Southwest.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Settlement patterns
- Hunting and trapping
- Diet
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Anasazi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- 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; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Pueblo I-III; 1300-700 BP (AD 700-1300)
- 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
- Christine R. Szuter, William B. Gillespie
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-76)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93036796
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Social life and customs