essay
Plant ecology and paleoecology
ancient chalcatzingo • Austin • Published In 1987 • Pages: 14-20
By: Bugé , David E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Bugé opens with an inventory of the modern vegetation zones in the highland Río Amatzinac Valley and their relationships to soils and humidity. Modern pollen spectra are then compared to fossil spectra from the Olmec-influenced site of Chalcatzingo dating to the Middle Formative period. Changes in the fossil spectra over time indicate minor climate shifts and considerable local disturbance of the natural habitat by construction accommodating an expanding agricultural population.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Flora
- Climate
- Environmental quality
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Olmec
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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.
- Archaeobotanist
- 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
- Leon G. Doyon ; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1972-1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 3500 BP-2500 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Río Amatzinac Valley, Morelos State, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- David E. Bugé
- For bibliographical references see Grove: 1987 (Document 3)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85022673
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Olmecs