essay
Spatial variation of debris at Guilá Naquitz: a descriptive approach
guilá naquitz : archaic foraging and early agriculture in oaxaca, mexico • Orlando • Published In 1986 • Pages: 331-367
By: Spencer, Charles S. (Charles Sidney), Flannery, Kent V..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Spencer and Flannery begin with an introduction to data organization and computer programming for mapping artifact distributions, utilizing data from stratigraphic zone D, which is immediately prior to the time frame of this file (Early Mesoamerican Archaic NY30). They then provide results for each living floor (stratigraphic zone), mapping and discussing the concentrations of flint debitage and food remains as diagnostic of activity areas within Guilá Naquitz Cave, including food storage, preparation, and disposal. Attention is given to the possible sexual division of labor and occupation of space, and to changes in resource use through time. The maps provide good visual references for subsequent chapters that present different statistical reconstructions (Documents 40-42). Only the maps and summaries for stratigraphic zones C and B pertain to the Early Archaic. (Procedural preliminaries are indexed for ORGANIZATION AND ANALYSIS OF RESULTS OF RESEARCH [128].)
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Maps
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Fauna
- Flora
- Food preparation
- Eating
- Lithic industries
- Housekeeping
- Refuse disposal and sanitary facilities
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender roles and issues
- Functional specialization areas
- 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
- 1964-1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 10,750 BP-8670 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
- Charles S. Spencer and 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