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Anasazi demographic patterns and organizational responses: assumptions and interpretive difficulties
anasazi in a changing environment • Cambridge • Published In 1988 • Pages: 168-191
By: Powell, Shirley.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Powell 'introduces the concept of paleodemography and its importance for reconstructing prehistoric adaptive and organizational systems…[and] addresses the theoretical and methodological biases archaeologists bring to the study of southwestern paleodemography and the effects these biases have on both population reconstructions and adaptive organizational inferences based on those reconstructions.'(page 168).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Settlement patterns
- Land use
- 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
- 1200-700 BP (AD 800-1300)
- 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
- Shirley Powell
- 'A School of American Research book.'
- For bibliographical references see document 54:Gumerman
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87025692
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pueblo Indians--Antiquities--Congresses
- Paleoecology--Southwest, New--Congresses
- Southwest, New--Antiquities--Congresses