hunters and gatherers (Other Keyword)

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Isotope and Hunter-gatherer Ecology at the Morhiss Site on the Texas Coastal Plain (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Hard. Raymond Mauldin. Kristin Corl. Deborah Bolnick. Jacob Freeman.

We analyze radiocarbon, stable carbon, and nitrogen isotope data from the Morhiss Site (41VT1) located on the Texas Coastal Plain. In 1939-1940, personnel with the Works Progress Administration excavated deep deposits at this large hunter-gatherer site but they lacked adequate chronological control and results were never fully reported. From this location on the Guadalupe River and only 35 km from the Gulf of Mexico, hunter-gatherers could access a variety of habitats. In fact they returned to...


The Rancho Santa María II: an archaic site in the Galeana Valley, Chihuahua. (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Emiliano Gallaga. Jesús Emmanuel Moreno Valle. Marisela Guzmán Aguirre.

In the summer of 2014, we conducted a rescue project in the Galeana Valley, Chihuahua on a site recorded early on. The site name is Rancho Santa María II, has a surface of 30,000 m2, and was identified for the high amount of FCR on surface mainly from ovens (several of them identified in surface). In addition, nearly 350 projectile points were found (fragments 70% and complete 30 %), some of them from the Paleo-Indian period. Four excavation units were performed at the site, mainly on ovens to...