essay
Demography, environment, and subsistence stress
Evolving complexity and environmental risk in the prehistoric Southwest : proceedings of the Workshop 'Resource Stress, Economic Uncertainty, and Human Response in the Prehistoric Southwest,' held February 25-29, 1992, in Santa Fe, NM. editors, Joseph A. Tainter, Bonnie Bagley Tainter • (24) • Published In 1996 • Pages: 25-56
By: Dean, Jeffrey S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Dean reviews 'potential instances of resource stress caused by environmental, demographic, and behavioral variability during the last 2000 years ...[This] provides a basis for assessing the relevance of Southwestern prehistory to understanding change and evolution in … cultural systems.' (page 48). Although Dean discusses the last 2000 years only the data pertaining to 1300-700 BP (AD 700-1300) were coded for Outline of Cultural Material codes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Location
- Settlement patterns
- Population
- Environmental quality
- 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
- 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)
- the Southwest; Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jeffrey S. Dean
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-56)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95045139
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Economic conditions--Congresses.
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Social conditions--Congresses.
- Indians of North America--Southwest, New--Antiquities--Congresses.
- Subsistence economy--Southwest, New--Congresses.
- Hunting and gathering societies--Southwest, New--Congresses.
- Southwest, New--Environmental conditions--Congresses.
- Southwest, New--Antiquities--Congresses.