essay
Wild food resources of the Mitla Caves: productivity, seasonality, and annual variation
guilá naquitz : archaic foraging and early agriculture in oaxaca, mexico • Orlando • Published In 1986 • Pages: 255-264
By: Flannery, Kent V..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Results of botanical surveys of the eastern Valley of Oaxaca undertaken between 1966-1976 are summarized for the purpose of comparison to archaeological foodstuffs from Guilá Naquitz Cave in order to better reconstruct procurement strategies. Flannery considers both seasonal and year-to-year variability in plant productivity for the major botanical zones, emphasizing caloric potential. There are some comments on probable diet and eating habits in light of the archaeological data. (Portions of the text concerned largely with organization and assessment of the data for comparative purposes are indexed for ORGANIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF RESULTS OF RESEARCH [128].)
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Fauna
- Flora
- Nutrition
- Annual cycle
- Diet
- Land use
- 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
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Eastern Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kent V. Flannery
- For bibliographical references see document 13:Flannery
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 85004051
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico/Mexico--Antiquities