Prehistoric Vegetation and Environment at Chaco Canyon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2575454 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen A Hall (0000-0002-5232-4942, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 582-592 |
| Publication date | 1988-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/281219 |
| OpenAlex | W2314692820 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 16 |
Pollen analysis of woodrat (Neotoma) middens indicates that the local vegetation at Chaco Canyon and the regional vegetation of the San Juan Basin, northwestern New Mexico, have been shrub grassland since at least 10,600 years ago. Plant macrofossils in the same woodrat middens indicate that pinyon pine trees were present in the canyon during much of the Holocene, but low percentages of their pollen grains in both the middens and in adjacent alluvium suggest the trees were few, occurring as small stands or isolated individuals along canyon escarpments. The vegetation at Chaco Canyon during Anasazi times was an arid shrub grassland with a sparse escarpment population of pinyon and juniper. A climate-caused regional increase in pinyon at higher elevation sites occurred approximately at the time of Puebloan abandonment
Archaeology · Arid · Biology · Canyon · Escarpment · Geography · Geomorphology · Grassland · Holocene · Juniper · Macrofossil · Physical geography · Population · Prehistory · Shrub · Vegetation (pathology) · Woodland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Forestry · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
New evidence of ancient parasitism among Late Archaic and Ancestral Puebloan residents of Chaco Canyon
Soundscapes in the past
News from the Northern American Southwest
Late holocene behavior of Chaco and McElmo Canyon drainages (Southwest U.S.)
Recent research in paleoethnobotany
The 5.1 ka aridization event, expansion of piñon-juniper woodlands, and the introduction of maize ( Zea mays ) in the American Southwest
Modeling agricultural potential in Chaco Canyon during the Bonito phase
Water Management at Pueblo Bonito
The Transition from the Preceramic to Ceramic Period in the Mogollon Highlands of Western New Mexico
Recent Research in Paleoethnobotany
Arroyos and Agriculture
Water Management and the Political Economy of Chaco Canyon During the Bonito Phase (ca. AD 850-1200)
The Bonito Paleochannel in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The Archaeology of the Bonito Paleochannel Cycle at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The Chaco Wood Project
Population Aggregation in the Prehistoric American Southwest
Marketing conquest and the vanishing Indian
Convergence of Evidence Supports a Chuska Mountains Origin for the Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
Evaluating the Gridded Agricultural Field Model in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Using Geophysical Remote Sensing
Late Holocene Paleoecology of the Southern Plains
Pollen Analysis of Fossil Packrat Middens from the Sonoran Desert
Statistics for microfossil concentration measurements employing samples spiked with marker grains
High-Precision Calibration of the Radiocarbon Time Scale, AD 1950–500 BC
New Light on Chaco Canyon
The Pollen Evidence for the Environment of Early Man and Extinct Mammals at the Lehner Mammoth Site, Southeastern Arizona
| Unique citing works | 19 |
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| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2024 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |