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Preliminary investigations of the Archaic in the region of Las Cruces, New Mexico / edited by Richard S. MacNeish.

LIBRA E78.N65 P8 1993
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Format:
Book
Government document
Contributor:
MacNeish, Richard S.
Series:
Historic and natural resources report ; no. 9.
Historic and natural resources report ; no. 9
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Indians of North America--New Mexico--Las Cruces Region--Antiquities.
Indians of North America.
Las Cruces Region (N.M.)--Antiquities.
Las Cruces Region (N.M.).
New Mexico--Antiquities.
New Mexico.
Antiquities.
New Mexico--Las Cruces Region.
Physical Description:
xii, 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Place of Publication:
Fort Bliss, Tex. : Cultural Resources Management Branch, Directorate of Environment, United States Army Air Defense Artillery Center, 1993.
Contents:
Chapter I. Introduction
Chapter 2. The excavations. Todsen Rockshelter
LA5531
Tornillo Rockshelter
NMSU1541 (LA17687)
North Mesa
LA5529
Organ Mountain sites
Fresnal shelter
La Cueva
Archaeological survey in the Southern Tularosa Basin
Chapter III. Interdisciplinary studies. Section I. Archaic period land use in the Southern Tularosa Basin, New Mexico / Sally Anderson
Section 2. Faunal remains from Todsen Cave / Peter Dawson
Section 3. The evolution of Maize in the Jornada Region of New Mexico and its implications for the southwest / Steadman Upham and R.S. MacNeish
Section 4. C13/12 and N15/14 Isotope Ratios in Skeletons from the Jornada region / Bruno Marino and R.S. MacNeish
Section 5. Organic residues on Lithic Artifacts / Elinor F. Downs
Section 6. Use-wear patterning on expedient tools / Peter Dawson
Chapter IV. Chronology. Part A. Relative chronology
Section 1. Projectile point typology
Section 2. Nonhaftable bifaces
Section 3. Terminally worked unifaces
Section 4. Laterlly worked unifaces
Section 5. Ground and pecked stone tools
Section 6. Bone and shell artifacts
Section 7. Perishable artifacts
Section 8. The ceramics of Todsen Cave / David V. Hill
Part B. Chronometrics or absolute chronology
Chapter V. Reconstruction of the way of life in excavated Jornada Sites / R.S. MacNeish and Peggy Wilner
Section 1. The way of life revealed by the occuption of Todsen Cave
Section 2. The way of life of the occupants of Tornillo Shelter
Section 3. The way of life of the North Mesa open site occupation
Section 4. Summary of the contextual evidence.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-427).
Other Format:
Online version: Preliminary investigations of the Archaic in the region of Las Cruces, New Mexico.
OCLC:
30616783

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