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Preliminary description of flotation sample materials from Cihuatecpan, Mexico
excavations at cihuatecpan, an aztec village in the teotihuacan valley • (36) • Published In 1988 • Pages: 239-245
By: McCoy, Bruce Gregory, Evans, Susan Toby.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Despite the two missing pages from this document, as noted below, this article does give a brief idea of how flotation analysis is used in the analysis of archaeological materials. Four tables are presented giving the results of flotation analysis of floral, faunal, lithic, ceramic, adobe and plaster samples from the Cihuatecpan site in Mexico.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Laboratory analysis of materials other than dating methods in archaeology
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Central Mexico Postclassic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Mexico
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2008
- 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
- 1300-430 BP (700-1570 AD)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cihuatecpan, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bruce Gregory McCoy and Susan T. Evans
- for bibliographical references see document 8:Evans
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89218802
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aztecs--Antiquities/Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric--Mexico/Cihuatecpan Site (Mexico) Mexico, Valley of (Mexico)--Antiquities