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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
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- 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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