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The Preceramic of Mesoamerica
Journal of field archaeology • 10 (1) • Published In 1983 • Pages: 71-84
By: MacNeish, Richard S., Nelken-Terner, Antoinette.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this overview of the entire Preceramic, MacNeish and Nelken-Turner handily distinguish the Early Archaic by Maritime (Caribbean coastal), Santa Marta (Chiapas and Oaxaca), El Riego (Puebla and Valley of Mexico), Infiernillo (NE Mexico) and Cochise (NW Mexico) regional traditions, on pages 11-13. For each major site and there is a brief listing of diagnostic traits. Other portions of the text are not relevant to this file (NY30) or are overly general summaries of the entire Preceramic.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Diagnostic material attributes
- Location
- 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
- article
- 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
- 40,000 BP-4300 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mesoamerica and Central America: Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama; and adjacent areas of the United States Southwest
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard S. McNeish and Antoinette Nelken-Terner
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75641025
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Oaxaca Valley (Mexico)--Antiquities/Mexico--Antiquities