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The excavation of Guilá Naquitz
guilá naquitz : archaic foraging and early agriculture in oaxaca, mexico • Orlando • Published In 1986 • Pages:
By: Flannery, Kent V., Moser, Christopher L., Maranca, Silvia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The three authors describe preparations for, and techniques of, excavations at Guilá Naquitz Cave. The emphasis is on stratigraphy in order to define discrete occupation levels and isolate later disturbances and intrusions (for detail on absolute dating, see Document 27). Maps of the location of major finds for each stratigraphic ”zone“ or living floor are convenient references for later chapters that discuss artifact categories separately, or that statistically group artifact distributions to delineate activity areas within the cave. Only zones C and B (subdivided into B3, B2, and B1) pertain to the Early Archaic. (Later in the volume evidence for subsistence strategies employing wild resources from Late Paleo-Indian Period zones E and D, dating up to 2000 or more years earlier, is frequently melded with that from the Early Archaic, as those strategies persist with little to no modification despite incipient agriculture.)
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Practical preparations in conducting fieldwork
- Recording and collecting in the field
- Post depositional processes in archaeological sites
- Cultural stratigraphy
- Archaeological excavation methods
- 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.
- 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 ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1964-1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 10,750 BP-1250 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Guilá Naquitz Cave, Eastern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kent V. Flannery, Chris L. Moser, and Silvia Maranca
- For bibliographical references see document 13:Flannery
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85004051
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico/Mexico--Antiquities