Early farming and warfare in northwest Mexico / by Robert Jarratt Hard and John R. Roney ; with contributions by Karen R. Adams, J. Kevin Hanselka, Gayle J. Fritz, Kari M. Schmidt, Lee C. Nordt, Bradley J. Vierra ; photography by Adriel Heisey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hard, Robert J., author.

Roney, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Agriculture.

Indians of Mexico.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Antiquities.

Military art and science.

Agriculture, Prehistoric.

Cerro de Trincheras Site (Mexico).

Agriculture, Prehistoric--Mexico--Cerro de Trincheras Site.

Indians of Mexico--Warfare.

Mexico, North--Antiquities.

Mexico, North.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Mexico, North.

Mexico--Cerro de Trincheras Site.

North Mexico.

Physical Description:

xxii, 400 pages : illustratoins ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2020]

Summary:

"How recent investigations of cerros de trincheras sites changed what we know about early agriculture in the Arizona-Mexico border region A detailed summary of research at cerros de trincheras sites and what it reveals about early agriculture in the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The environment of the Rão Casas Grandes region of northwestern Chihuahua

Cerro Juanaqueña and its features

Other sites

Radiocarbon dating

Overview of material culture

Warfare and society

Plant use / by Karen R. Adams and J. Kevin Hanselka

Analysis of amaranth and chenopod seeds / by Gayle J. Fritz

Pollen, phytolith, starch, and stable isotope analyses

Faunal remains / by Kari M. Schmidt

Late Quaternary landscape evolution / by Lee C. Nordt

Manos, metates and grinding slabs

Chipped stone / by Bradley J. Vierra

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Hard, Robert J. Early farming and warfare in northwest Mexico.

ISBN:

9781607816782

1607816784

OCLC:

1057731390