EMAP (2003) Report to the National Geographic Society on Activities Conducted under Grant 6980-01

Funds from grant 6980-01 enabled us to gather information about the Classic Mimbres period in Southwest prehistory and improve our understanding of the relationship between population, subsistence, and mobility. Eleven separate analyses (of subsistence remains, demography, resource use, and site use life and intensity), enabled or directly supported as part of this research, facilitate comparisons between the Classic Mimbres period settlement in villages and the Reorganization phase settlement in smaller hamlets, both in the eastern Mimbres area. Population levels decreased slightly between the two periods while subsistence strategies (farming and use of locally available wild resources) remained relatively unchanged. Also, in contrast to the Mimbres River Valley, where there is strong evidence of environmental degradation in Classic Mimbres times, human impact in the eastern Mimbres Classic is relatively light and should not be characterized as degradation. Residential mobility in the eastern Mimbres also increased between the Classic period and the Reorganization phase.编号6980-01的科研项目资助资金，支持我们收集了美国西南部史前时期经典明布雷斯时期（Classic Mimbres period）的相关资料，并深化了我们对人口、生计与流动性三者间关联的认知。作为本研究一部分得以开展或直接获得支持的11项独立分析（涵盖生计遗存、人口统计学、资源利用以及遗址使用时长与强度），为东部明布雷斯地区内经典明布雷斯时期的村落定居点与重组阶段（Reorganization phase）小型村落定居点的对比研究提供了支撑。两个阶段之间，人口规模略有下降，而生计策略（农耕与本地野生资源利用）则基本保持稳定。此外，与明布雷斯河谷（Mimbres River Valley）存在确凿证据表明经典明布雷斯时期发生环境退化的情况形成鲜明对比，东部明布雷斯地区经典明布雷斯时期的人类活动影响相对轻微，不应被定性为环境退化。东部明布雷斯地区的居住流动性在经典明布雷斯时期至重组阶段之间也有所提升。