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The food-gathering and incipient agriculture stage of prehistoric Middle America
University of Texas Press • 1 • Published In 1964 • Pages: 413-426
By: MacNeish, Richard S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this review of the archaeological record to date for the entirety of the Mesoamerican Archaic, MacNeish divides the country into four culture regions, concentrating on the ”Mesoamerica“ area reaching from Chiapas northward through Tamaulipas for which there is the best chronological control. The only phases in that area pertaining to the Early Archaic are (south to north): Santa Marta, Ajuereado (the final two millennia only), Abejas, Chalco, Chicoloapan, Tepexpan and Infiernillo. Little distinction can be made between the two Archaic periods in other areas. The author reviews radiocarbon dates, lists diagnostic artifacts, summarizes artifacts found in each major excavation, and provides a short synopsis of the evidence within each artifact category, usually without the possibility of distinguishing Early from Late Archaic.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Diagnostic material attributes
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Mesoamerican Archaic
- 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
- 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
- 9000-3500 BP (Early and Late Archaic)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mexico; from the border area of the United States Southwest through Chiapas
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard S. MacNeish
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 426)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64010316
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico/Mexico--Antiquities