Book
Sedentism, food production and pottery origins in the tropics: the case of San Jacinto 1, Colombia
UMI • Ann Arbor, Mich. • Published In 1999 • Pages:
By: Oyuela-Caycedo, Augusto.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Oyuela-Caycedo excavated and analyzed artifacts from the site San Jacinto 1 in northern Columbia. His dissertation extensively discusses the different theories concerning settlement strategies, sedentism, early ceramics, and expedient verses curated technologies. San Jacinto 1 is the first late Archaic site to be excavated in the interior of northern Columbia. A special-purpose site, it was used mainly to intensively process plants (probably seed producing plants) and was occupied on a seasonal basis. The group that occupied the site probably practiced a logistic mobility strategy. Most of the artifacts associated with the site are fire-cracked rocks used in earth ovens. Also found were ground stone tools associated with the plant processing, ceramics, flaked-stone tools, and mollusks. The ceramics associated with the site do not appear to have been used in the plant processing or cooking and probably had a more social and communal function such as serving or containers for hallucinogens or alcohol.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Annual cycle
- Food preparation
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- Heating and lighting equipment
- Settlement patterns
- General tools
- Utensils
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Northwest South American Littoral
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2001
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwestern South America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- 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
- Sarah Berry; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- October 1991-April 1992
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 6000 BP - 5665±75 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- San Jacinto 1; Columbia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo
- UM 9421492
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-371)
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Pittsburgh, 1993
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of South America--Antiquities