essay
Are Paleoindians of the Great Plains and Rockies subsistence specialists?
foragers of the terminal pleistocene in north america • Lincoln • Published In 2007 • Pages: 32-58
By: Kornfeld, Marcel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author explores the prevailing theory of communal big game hunting as the basis of Paleo-Indian through Early Archaic economies, and its concomitant model of high mobility. Bone midden sites in the western United States are covered, along with sites lacking big game.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Fauna
- Hunting and trapping
- Diet
- Settlement patterns
- Production and supply
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- 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
- 12,000-7500 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- western United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Marcel Kornfeld
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2006032043
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paleo-Indians