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Early irrigation on the Colorado Plateau near Zuni Pueblo
American antiquity • 67 (4) • Published In 2002 • Pages: 665-676
By: Damp, Jonathan, Hall, Stephen A., Smith, Susan J..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The introduction of maize agriculture into the Southwest and onto the Colorado Plateau was accompanied by irrigation techniques. Twenty-six radiocarbon dates at two sites, K'yana Chabina and K'yawa:Na'a Deyatchinanne, in the Zuni area of New Mexico, establish the use of irrigation canals to between 3,000 and 1,000years ago. Associated feature and the presence of nearby habitation sites independently corroborate the chronology of canal building. The geomorphology of the Zuni landscape and the morphology of the irrigation canals are consistent with the artificial construction of the canals. Pollen evidence points to an agricultral landscape and the cultivation of maize (p. 665).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Water supply
- Cereal agriculture
- Cultural stratigraphy
- Laboratory analysis of materials other than dating methods in archaeology
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Post depositional processes in archaeological sites
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Soil
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Zuni
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1000 BC-1255 AD
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- K'yana Chabina and K'yawa:Na'a Deyatchinanne, Colorado Platerau, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jonathan E. Damp, Stephen A. Hall, and Susan J. Smith
- Includes bibliographical references (p.675-676)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 46036122
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zuni Indians