Large Mammal Relative Abundance in Pithouse and Pueblo Period Archaeofaunas from Southwestern New Mexico: Resource Depression among the Mimbres-Mogollon?

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 317-347

  Cannon, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; evolutionary ecology; foraging theory; hunting; Mimbres; Mogollon; zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001482147     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jaar.2000.0366     Document Type: Article

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