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Application of high‐resolution alluvial stratigraphy in assessing the hunter‐gatherer/agricultural transition in the Santa Cruz River Valley, Southeastern Arizona
Author(s) -
Freeman Andrea K.L.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
geoarchaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1520-6548
pISSN - 0883-6353
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6548(200008)15:6<559::aid-gea6>3.0.co;2-3
Subject(s) - hunter gatherer , archaeology , geoarchaeology , subsistence agriculture , alluvium , stratigraphy , geology , palaeochannel , settlement (finance) , fluvial , geography , agriculture , paleontology , tectonics , structural basin , world wide web , computer science , payment
Historic records of arroyo formation have long been used as inferential tools for reconstructing paleoclimate in the American Southwest. Archaeologists use these paleoclimatic reconstructions as convenient boundaries for demarcating long‐term changes in human settlement and subsistence. The rapid accumulation of new data on the hunter‐gatherer/agricultural transition, however, requires the use of higher‐resolution spatial and temporal data from geoarchaeology. High‐resolution documentation of channel exposures helps us interpret this transition along the Santa Cruz River, Tucson, Arizona, at a scale that is more relevant to the archaeological issues of today. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.