Gheo-Shih : an archaic macroband camp in the valley of Oaxaca /

Gheo-Shih : an archaic macroband camp in the valley of Oaxaca /

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Author / Creator:Hole, Frank, author.
Imprint:Ann Arbor, Michigan : The University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology (UMMAA) Press, 2024.
©2024
Description:xv, 149 pages : illustrations, graphs, tables, maps ; 28 cm.
Language:English
Series:Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan ; Number 66.
Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca ; volume 19.
Prehistory and human ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca ; volume 19.
Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan ; Number 66.
Subject:
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico -- Oaxaca Valley.
Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Mexico -- Oaxaca Valley.
Prehistoric peoples -- Mexico -- Oaxaca Valley -- Antiquities.
Oaxaca Valley (Mexico) -- Antiquities.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14120383
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Other authors / contributors:Flannery, Kent V., author.
ISBN:9781951538774
1951538773
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-149).
Summary:Gheo-Shih, an Archaic site in the Valley of Oaxaca, was a 1.5-hectare open-air macroband camp near the Mitla River. It was repeatedly occupied in the summer rainy season during the period (cal.) 7500-4000 BC, possibly by 25-50 people. At other times of the year the local population dispersed in smaller, family-sized groups, occupying microband camps in caves and rockshelters. The available macrofossil and palynological data suggest that between 5000 and 4000 BC, the inhabitants were cultivating maize, squash, gourds, and (possibly) runner beans, while continuing to collect wild plants and hunt deer, rabbit, and mud turtle. This site report describes the discovery of Gheo-Shih and the subsequent research carried out there: a systematic surface pickup, a series of test pits, targeted excavations, and analysis of the materials recovered.

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