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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction / by Heidi Roberts -- Project history / by Kenneth L. Wintch -- Research questions and methods / by Heidi Roberts and Richard V. N. Ahlstrom -- Jackson Flat chronologies / by Richard V. N. Ahlstrom -- Environment / by Richard V. N. Ahlstrom, William Eckerle, and Heidi Roberts -- Previous Basketmaker research / by Jerry D. Spangler, Heidi Roberts, and Richard V. N. Ahlstrom -- The Archaic period (5000-1300 BC) / by Heidi Roberts -- The early Agricultural period (1300-800 BC) / by Heidi Roberts -- The Basketmaker II period (200 BC-AD 550) / by Heidi Roberts and Jerry D. Spangler -- The Basketmaker III period (AD 550-700) / by Heidi Roberts and Jerry D. Spangler -- The Pueblo I period (AD 700-900) / by Heidi Roberts and Jerry D. Spangler -- The Pueblo II-II period (AD 900-1300) / by Heidi Roberts and Jerry D. Spangler -- The Post-Puebloan period (AD 1300-1776) / by Heidi Roberts -- The Jackson Flat Reservoir Project Chipped Stone / by Joel C. Janetski -- Ground stone and the transition to farming / by Stewart Deats -- Ceramics and the far western pottery typology / by Janet Hagopian -- Patterns of ceramic production and distribution / by Karen G. Harry and Sachiko Sakai -- Changes in wild and domestic plant use / by Amanda J. Landon -- The faunal remains : prehistoric hunting and processing strategies / by Robert B. Nash -- Ornaments and non-utilitarian artifacts / by Arthur W. Vokes -- The transition to farming / by Heidi Roberts -- The far western Basketmaker emergence / by Heidi Roberts and Jerry D. Spangler -- Subsistence systems and settlement strategies / by Robert B. Nash and Heidi Roberts -- Temporal patterns in architecture and site reuse / by Heidi Roberts and Richard V. N. Ahlstrom -- Household and community organization / by Heidi Roberts -- Far western-Kayenta cultural relationships revisited / by Richard V. N. Ahlstrom -- Final thoughts and observations / by Heidi Roberts, James R. Allison, and Jerry D. Spangler |
| Summary |
The Basketmaker presence in southern Utah has traditionally been viewed as peripheral to developments originating in the Four Corners region. Far Western Basketmaker Beginnings offers an entirely new and provocative perspective--that the origins of farming on the northern Colorado Plateau are instead found far to the west along Kanab Creek. This volume, based on the results of excavations at Jackson Flat Reservoir south of Kanab, examines a litany of firsts: the earliest Archaic pithouses ever found in this region, evidence that maize farmers arrived here a thousand years earlier than previously reported, and the emergence of a complex Basketmaker farming and foraging culture. Specialists in Far Western Puebloan culture, architecture, settlement patterns, subsistence, chronometry, and prehistoric technologies make a compelling case that farming was introduced to the region by San Pedro immigrants, and that the blending of farmers with local foraging groups gave rise to a Basketmaker lifeway by 200 BC. This book marks a giant leap forward in archaeologists'understanding of the earliest maize farmers north and west of the Colorado River.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Basket-Maker Indians -- Four Corners Region -- Antiquities
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Basket making -- Four Corners Region -- Antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Four Corners Region
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Antiquities
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Basket-Maker Indians -- Antiquities
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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| SUBJECT |
Four Corners Region -- Antiquities
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| Subject |
United States -- Four Corners Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781647690656 |
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164769065X |
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