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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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 VI|114 pages
Spatial Analysis of Living Floors
part VII|75 pages
Simulating Foraging and Early Agriculture in Oaxaca
part VIII|15 pages
Summary and Conclusions