Conference poster
Basketmaker II Subsistence
Washington State University
Society for American Archaeology, 72 (Austin, Texas )
04/26/2007
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006231
Abstract
In 1986 we (Matson and Chisholm 1986, 1991) we reported on four lines of evidence pointing to maize agriculture being important for Basketmaker II subsistence on Cedar Mesa, Utah, (Figure 1). They included settlement patterns, coprolite analysis, midden analysis, and stable carbon analysis (Aasen 1984; Chisholm and Matson 1994; Lepofsky 1986; Matson 1991, 1994). We also briefy summarized other BM II information which led to the conclusion that the BM II in general was largely based on maize agriculture. Here we summarize the major subsistence evidence from midden, coprolite, and stable isotope analysis, focusing on that which has become available since circa 1990, and evaluate how it compares with the limited information earlier reported on Cedar Mesa.
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- Title
- Basketmaker II Subsistence
- Creators
- R. G. Matson (Author)Brian S. Chisholm (Author)
- Conference
- Society for American Archaeology, 72 (Austin, Texas )
- Academic Unit
- Cedar Mesa Research Materials
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Identifiers
- 99901081339601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference poster