Pleistocene and Holocene People of Sonora

Summary

Recent interdisciplinary investigations have revealed that the Sonoran Desert region is not only one of the earliest regions occupied by humans on the American Continent but also has one of the longest occupation records. The earliers Sonorans were proboscidean hunters in the Late Pleistocene, Archaic foragers and hunters in the Early and Middle Holocene and maize farmers in the Late Holocene. Several sites in the state of Sonora, Mexico have a well-preserved archaeological record with stratigraphic deposits that cover the last 15,000 years. Based upon multiple sources of evidence (pedological data, isotopes, pollen samples, macrobotanical remains, diatoms, and cultural material) primarily from the El Fin del Mundo and the La Playa sites; we explore the mobility, social and economic organization of the peoples of Sonora from the Pleistocene to the acquisition of maize.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 20199