essay
Variability in food production, strategies of storage and sharing, and the pithouse-to-pueblo transition in the northern Southwest
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: 223-250
By: Hegmon, Michelle.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article attempts to understand human social responses to resource stress and economic uncertainty among food producers in the Southwest. Specifically the author's focus is on the effects of different strategies of sharing or not sharing food among horticulturalists in an environment with a high level of high-frequency variability. The results are applied to interpret changes in architecture associated with what is generally called the pithouse to pueblo transition, focusing on changes from communal to private storage (p. 223).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Dwellings
- Warehousing
- Sociocultural trends
- Building interiors and arrangement
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2011
- 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
- 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)
- Southwest United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michelle Hegmon
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-250)
- 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.