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The preceramic of Mesoamerica
Journal of field archaeology • 10 • 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
MacNeish and Nelken-Terner summarize the last 40,000 years of perhistory in Mesoamerica. The last few pages discuss the Archaic from 7000 B.P. to 4000 B.P. Only a few sies from the Lowlands are discussed as most of the work at that time had been done in the highlands of Mexico.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Typologies and classifications
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Lowland Mesoamerican Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2001
- 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
- Maya Area
- 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
- Sarah Berry; 1999
- 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
- 7000 BP- 4000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lowland Mesoamerica; Belize and Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard S. MacNeish, Antoinette Nelken-Terner
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75641025
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of Central America--Antiquities/Indians of