Early Agricultural Use of Ground Stone in Southern Sonora
Author(s): Jaron Davidson; John Carpenter; Guadalupe Sánchez; Matthew Pailes
Year: 2023
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Recent excavation at the site of Las Chachalacas in Quiriego, Sonora produced evidence for Early Agricultural period (EAP) occupation. Dating likely between the Silverbell Interval and the San Pedro phase this settlement would have been contemporaneous with other important early agricultural sites in Sonora, Chihuahua, and Arizona such as La Playa, Cerro Juanaqueña, and several in the Santa Cruz Valley. This research examines ground stone artifacts found at Las Chachalacas to evaluate the relative importance of maize and other seed crops to these very early farmers. Given the likely EAP association, comparisons with ground stone artifact assemblages from other important EAP sites in the US Southwest and northwest Mexico are explored.
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Early Agricultural Use of Ground Stone in Southern Sonora. Jaron Davidson, John Carpenter, Guadalupe Sánchez, Matthew Pailes. Presented at The 88th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2023 ( tDAR id: 474552)
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Keywords
General
Early Agriculture
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Ground Stone
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Lithic Analysis
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Northwest Mexico
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Subsistence and Foodways: Domestication
Geographic Keywords
North America: Southern Southwest U.S.
Spatial Coverage
min long: -123.97; min lat: 25.958 ; max long: -92.549; max lat: 37.996 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 36308.0