ABSTRACT

This volume reports on the excavation of Guilá Naquitz cave in Oaxaca, a site that provides important evidence for the earliest plant domestication in the New World. Stratigraphic studies, examinations of artifactual and botanical remains, simulations, and an imaginative reconstruction make this a model project of processual archaeology.

part I|28 pages

The Problem and the Model

part II|33 pages

The Cultural and Environmental Setting

part III|114 pages

Excavation and Artifact Analysis

part IV|70 pages

Comparing the Archaic and Modern Environments

part V|71 pages

Analysis of Subsistence

part VIII|15 pages

Summary and Conclusions

chapter 33|9 pages

A Visit to the Master

chapter 34|3 pages

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