Cueva Blanca : social change in the archaic of the Valley of Oaxaca / Kent V. Flannery and Frank Hole ; with contributions by Robert G. Reynolds, Charles S. Spencer, and Jane C. Wheeler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flannery, Kent V., author.

Hole, Frank, author.

Contributor:

University of Michigan. Museum of Anthropology, issuing body.

Series:

Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan ; number 60.

Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan ; Number 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley--Antiquities.

Indians of Mexico.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Antiquities.

Oaxaca Valley (Mexico)--Antiquities.

Oaxaca Valley (Mexico).

Oaxaca Valley (Mexico)--Social life and customs.

Indians of Mexico--Mexico--San José Mogote--Antiquities.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico--San José Mogote.

San José Mogote (Mexico)--Antiquities.

San José Mogote (Mexico).

Mixtec Indians--Antiquities.

Mixtec Indians.

Zapotec Indians--Antiquities.

Zapotec Indians.

Mexico--San José Mogote.

Mexico--Oaxaca Valley.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Cueva Blanca lies in a volcanic tuff cliff some 4 km northwest of Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico. It is one of a series of Archaic sites excavated by Kent Flannery and Frank Hole as part of a project on the prehistory and human ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca. The oldest stratigraphic level in Cueva Blanca yielded Late Pleistocene fauna, including some species no longer present in southern Mexico. The second oldest level, Zone E, produced Early Archaic material with calibrated dates as old as 11,000-10,000 BC . Zones D and C provided a rich Late Archaic assemblage whose closest ties are with the Abejas phase of Puebla's Tehuacán Valley (fourth millennium BC). Spatial analyses undertaken on the Archaic living floors include (1) the drawing of density contours for tools and animal bones; (2) a search for Archaic tool kits using rank-order and cluster analysis; and (3) an attempt to define Binfordian "drop zones" using an approach drawn from computer vision.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-220).

Description based on information provided by the publisher.

ISBN:

9780915703944

0915703947

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.