Distance in Space and Time: Issues with a Mortuary Database of the First Farmers in the Southern Southwest

Summary

This paper describes issues associated with the construction of a biocultural database from samples of the earliest farmers from the southern Southwest and northwest Mexico. Currently over a dozen archaeological sites dating to the Early Agricultural period (circa 1,600 B.C.-A.D. 150) have produced a large sample of mortuary features (n = 431). These samples, and thereby the data, face unique challenges in interpretation compared to similar large data sets in that the materials (sites, features, and individuals) are geographically and temporally distant from each other; they are separated by over 150 linear miles and span almost 2,000 years of cultural development.

INTRODUCTION

Cite this Record

Distance in Space and Time: Issues with a Mortuary Database of the First Farmers in the Southern Southwest. James Watson. Presented at 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento. 2011 ( tDAR id: 5952) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8PN94H1

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: -1600 to 150

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.709; min lat: 29.573 ; max long: -109.182; max lat: 32.408 ;

File Information

  Name Size Creation Date Date Uploaded Access
watson_early-ag-period-in-sonoran-desert_distance-in-space-and... 262.15kb Mar 13, 2011 8:03:06 PM Public