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Tradition summary: Early Mesoamerican Archaic

HRAF • New Haven, Conn. • Published In 2006 • Pages:

By: MacNeish, Richard S..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a summary of the Early Mesoamerican Archaic.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Identification
Culture summary
traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
Early Mesoamerican Archaic
HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
2007
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
General Middle America and the Caribbean
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
Leon G. Doyon ; 2005
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
9600-7000 BP
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and United States
NotesAdditional notes
by Richard S. MacNeish
The major tradition summary is from the article 'Early Meso-American Archaic,' by Richard MacNeish, in the Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember, eds. Vol. 5, pp. 116-119. New York: Plenum Publishing Corporation. The additions in square brackets were written by Leon G. Doyon, April 2006. We thank Peter N. Peregrine for bibliographic suggestions.
Includes bibliographical references
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico/Mexico--Antiquities