In studying the animal bones from Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, Lang and Harris had an advantage unknown to most faunal analysts: a collection so large and a site so well dated that the bones could be divided chronologically into ordered samples. By comparing these samples, they could identify short-term changes in the natural environment and in human economic practices throughout Arroyo Hondo history. This book presents the results of their analysis, covering the topics of prehistoric vegetation and climate; the importance of various animals in the diet; seasonal hunting patterns; methods of butchering, skinning and cooking; the prehistoric hunting territory; the raising of domesticated dogs and turkeys; and trade in animals and animal products. An appendix gives the raw data for each chronological sample. Three additional reports are included in this volume. First Marshall A. Beach and Christopher S. Causey describe the bone artifacts found at Arroyo Hondo, discuss their distribution, and compare them with artifacts from nearby sites. Second, the shell artifacts are described by Tamsin Venn, who also examines shell trade routes in the Southwest. Finally, Richard W. Lang discusses the artifacts of hide fur, and feathers that accompanied human burials at Arroyo Hondo Pueblo.
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...mercifully free of arch-bark jargon and theoretical strutting.... The fine-grain temporal control over the subsamples used in the analysis is rather unusual--allowing an almost unique case study analysis of short-term change in subsistence patterns. --Bruce D. Smith
As a scientific document this volume is exceptional. Its attention to archeological and zoological details has rarely been equaled. It establishes a new standard zooarchaeology in the Southwest. --Richard I. Ford
As a scientific document this volume is exceptional. Its attention to archeological and zoological details has rarely been equaled. It establishes a new standard zooarchaeology in the Southwest. --Richard I. Ford
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Arroyo Hondo Pueblo was the larger of two Anasazi settlements that grew up adjacent to the springs of Arroyo Hondo Canyon during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries A.D. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arroyo Hondo, Rio Grande, New Mexico, Number Percent Number Percent, Casas Grandes, Santa Fe River, Pindi Pueblo, Pecos Pueblo, San Juan, Chamisa Locita, Gulf of California, Sangre de Cristo, Pueblo Indians, Upper Sonoran, Chupadero Black-on-white, Pecos River, Descriptions Type, Galisteo Basin, Jemez Cave, Agua Fria, Las Madres, Pajarito Plateau, Specimen Number Sex Accoutrements Other, Aztec Ruin, Chama River New!
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Arroyo Hondo Pueblo was the larger of two Anasazi settlements that grew up adjacent to the springs of Arroyo Hondo Canyon during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries A.D. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arroyo Hondo, Rio Grande, New Mexico, Number Percent Number Percent, Casas Grandes, Santa Fe River, Pindi Pueblo, Pecos Pueblo, San Juan, Chamisa Locita, Gulf of California, Sangre de Cristo, Pueblo Indians, Upper Sonoran, Chupadero Black-on-white, Pecos River, Descriptions Type, Galisteo Basin, Jemez Cave, Agua Fria, Las Madres, Pajarito Plateau, Specimen Number Sex Accoutrements Other, Aztec Ruin, Chama River New!
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- ARTIFACTS PECOS (Classics of anthropology) by Kidder on page 187, page 222, and Back Matter
- Pueblo Population and Society: The Arroyo Hondo Skeletal and Mortuary Remains (Arroyo Hondo Archaeological Series) by Ann M. Palkovich in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Contemporary Ecology of Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico (Arroyo Hondo Archaeological Series) by N. Edmund. Kelley in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Past Climate of Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, Reconstructed from Tree Rings (Arroyo Hondo Archaeological Series) by Martin R. Rose in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Casas Grandes: A fallen trading center of the Gran Chichimeca (No. 9 of the Amerind Foundation, Inc., series) by Charles C Di Peso in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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