essay

Ground-stone artifacts

guilá naquitz : archaic foraging and early agriculture in oaxaca, mexico • Orlando • Published In 1986 • Pages:

By: Flannery, Kent V..

Abstract
Completing the portion of the volume concerning lithic artifacts (also see Documents 19 and 20), Flannery documents the 21 ground stone tools and tool fragments excavated at Guilá Naquitz Cave. There are some functional interpretations, largely about food processing. Most intriguing are the palate and grinder for preparing pigments. Only artifacts from stratigraphic zones C and B pertain to the Early Archaic.
Subjects
Food preparation
Lithic industries
Paint and dye manufacture
General tools
Archaeological inventories
tradition
Early Mesoamerican Archaic
HRAF PubDate
2000
Region
Middle America and the Caribbean
Sub Region
General Middle America and the Caribbean
Document Type
essay
Evaluation
Creator Type
Archaeologist
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
Leon G. Doyon ; 2005
Field Date
1964-1966
Coverage Date
10,750 BP-8670 BP
Coverage Place
Guilá Naquitz Cave, Eastern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
Notes
Kent V. Flannery
For bibliographical references see document 13:Flannery
LCCN
85004051
LCSH
Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico/Mexico--Antiquities