essay
Quandary: the Clovis phenomenon, the First Americans, and the view from Patagonia
new perspectives on the first americans • College Station • Published In 2004 • Pages: 35-40
By: Miotti, Laura.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author summarizes several sites in Patagonia along with the general environment, and compares the first settlers and their technologies and toolkits with those from Clovis sites in North America. The calibrated age of one site the author excavated is 16,000–8100 BP (12,980–7330 BP uncorrected).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- Flora
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Paleo-Indian
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- New World
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- New World
- 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
- Sarah Berry; 2016
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 16,000-8100 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Argentina; Chile; United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Laura L. Miotti
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-40)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paleo-Indians