US Geological Survey
Date of this Version
2008
Document Type
Article
Citation
Dataset
Abstract
These data result from soil chemistry samples extracted from several regions in northwest New Mexico and were used in the following publications:
Larry V. Benson, J. Stein, H. Taylor, R. Friedman, and T. C. Windes. 2006. The agricultural productivity of Chaco Canyon and the source(s) of pre-Hispanic maize found in the Pueblo Bonito Great House. In: J. E. Staller, R. H. Tykot, and B. F. Benz, eds. Histories of Maize: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize, 289–314. Elsevier/Academic Press.
Larry V. Benson. 2017. The Chuska Slope as an agricultural alternative to Chaco Canyon: A rebuttal of Tankersley et al. (2016). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 16: 456–471
Larry V. Benson. 2011. Factors Controlling Pre-Columbian and Early Historic Maize Productivity in the American Southwest, Part 1: The Southern Colorado Plateau and Rio Grande Regions. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 18: 1–60.
Larry V. Benson. 2011. Factors Controlling Pre-Columbian and Early Historic Maize Productivity in the American Southwest, Part 2: The Chaco Halo, Mesa Verde, Pajarito Plateau/Bandelier, and Zuni Archaeological Regions. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 18: 61–109.
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