Early farming and warfare in northwest Mexico / by Robert Jarratt Hard and John R. Roney ; with contributions by Karen R. Adams, J. Kevin Hanselka, Gayle J. Fritz, Kari M. Schmidt, Lee C. Nordt, Bradley J. Vierra ; photography by Adriel Heisey.

Author/Creator:

Hard, Robert J. author.

Publication:

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2020]

Format/Description:

Book
xxii, 400 pages : illustratoins ; 29 cm

Subjects:

Indians of Mexico -- Agriculture.
Cerro de Trincheras Site (Mexico)
Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Mexico -- Cerro de Trincheras Site.
Indians of Mexico -- Warfare.
Mexico, North -- Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mexico, North.
Agriculture, Prehistoric.
Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Mexico -- Cerro de Trincheras Site.
North Mexico.

Summary:

"How recent investigations of cerros de trincheras sites changed what we know about early agriculture in the Arizona-Mexico border region A detailed summary of research at cerros de trincheras sites and what it reveals about early agriculture in the southwestern U.S. and northwestern Mexico"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The environment of the Rão Casas Grandes region of northwestern Chihuahua
Cerro Juanaqueña and its features
Other sites
Radiocarbon dating
Overview of material culture
Warfare and society
Plant use / by Karen R. Adams and J. Kevin Hanselka
Analysis of amaranth and chenopod seeds / by Gayle J. Fritz
Pollen, phytolith, starch, and stable isotope analyses
Faunal remains / by Kari M. Schmidt
Late Quaternary landscape evolution / by Lee C. Nordt
Manos, metates and grinding slabs
Chipped stone / by Bradley J. Vierra
Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Roney, John, author.

Other format:

Online version: Hard, Robert J. Early farming and warfare in northwest Mexico.

ISBN:

9781607816782
1607816784

OCLC:

1057731390

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