Ecological Variability and Agricultural Specialization among the Protohistoric Pueblos of Central New Mexico

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11073403
AutoresJ Brett Hill (autor de correspondencia)
Año1998
Volumen25
Número3
Páginas275-294
Fecha de publicación1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Field Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0093-4690 • E-ISSN: 2042-4582
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1179/009346998792005379
OpenAlexW1990509981
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas15

Archaeologists working in central New Mexico have proposed economic models for the late prehistoric period that entail specialized production and exchange between pueblos and between Pueblo and Plains groups. Some aspects of these models have been demonstrated with archaeological materials, but agricultural production has been difficult to measure using materials that are often more indicative of consumption than production. Cotton and corn are two agricultural products that are essential to the models proposed but whose production has yet to be demonstrated with archaeological data. A combination of historical, ethnographic, and GIS data is used here to support the hypotheses that: 1) cotton was produced by specialists in the Rio Abajo and traded to Eastern pueblos and beyond; 2) corn was produced by specialists among the Salinas pueblos for exchange to the Great Plains; and 3) the production of cotton by Rio Abajo farmers did not interfere with subsistence production but was complementary to it

Agricultural productivity · Agriculture · Archaeology · Art · Consumption (sociology · Ethnography · Geography · Period (music · Prehistory · Production (economics · Social science · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Latin American history and culture