Cultural Transmission and Artifact Variation in Late Prehistoric New Mexico

Author(s): Raven Garvey

Year: 2016

Summary

Prehistoric boundary dynamics likely affected aspects of cultural transmission. Several lines of archaeological evidence indicate increased economic importance of bison and related inter-group tensions ca. AD 1300 in southeastern New Mexico, a boundary zone between the Pueblos to the west and cultures of the southern High Plains to the east. This paper presents preliminary results of a study centered on artifact variability and designed to test the hypothesis that model-based, biased cultural transmission or heightened incentive to "advertise" group membership influenced the fidelity of projectile point manufacture in this context.

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Cultural Transmission and Artifact Variation in Late Prehistoric New Mexico. Raven Garvey. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 405304)

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Keywords

General
Cultural Transmission • late preshistoric • projectile technology

Geographic Keywords
North America - Southwest

Spatial Coverage

min long: -115.532; min lat: 30.676 ; max long: -102.349; max lat: 42.033 ;