The Chihuahua (Southeastern) tradition () as a culture of south-central
New Mexico
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Chihuahua is still poorly defined. It probably includes several local adaptations that evolved over long periods of time. Irwin-Williams' hypothesis of four interacting
Southwestern Archaic traditions, which differ from other traditions such as the
Plains Archaic, is still provisional.
See also
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Archaic period in the Americas
In the classification of the archaeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period in North America, taken to last from around 8000 to 1000 BC in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the ' ...
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Archaic stage
Several chronologies in the archaeology of the Americas include an Archaic Period or Archaic stage etc. It is often sub-divided, for example into "Early", "Middle" and "Late", or alternatively "Lower" and "Upper", stages. The dates, and the char ...
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Cochise tradition
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Pecos Classification
The Pecos Classification is a chronological division of all known Ancestral Puebloans into periods based on changes in architecture, art, pottery, and cultural remains. The original classification dates back to consensus reached at a 1927 archæo ...
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Southwestern United States
The Southwestern United States, also known as the American Southwest or simply the Southwest, is a geographic and cultural list of regions of the United States, region of the United States that includes Arizona and New Mexico, along with adjacen ...
Bibliography
* Cordell, Linda S. (1984). ''Prehistory of the Southwest''. New York: Academic Press.
* Fagan, Brian M. (2000). ''Ancient North America: The archaeology of a continent'' (3rd ed.). New York: Thames and Hudson.
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Irwin-Williams, Cynthia. (1979). Post-pleistocene archeology, 7000-2000 B.C. In A. Ortiz (Ed.), ''Handbook of North American Indians: Southwest'' (Vol. 9, pp. 31–42). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.
Archaic period in North America
Archaeological cultures of North America
Pre-Columbian cultures
Native American history of New Mexico
Southwest tribes
Oasisamerica cultures
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