Fierce and Indomitable: The Protohistoric Non-Pueblo World in the American Southwest

by Deni J. Seymour (Editor)

Overview

Trending upward as an archaeological field of study, protohistoric mobile groups provide fascinating new directions for cutting-edge research in the American Southwest and beyond. These mobile residents represent the ancient and ancestral roots of many modern indigenous peoples, including the Apaches, Jumano, Yavapai, and Ute. These important protohistoric and historic mobile people have tended to be ignored because their archaeological sites were deemed too difficult to identify, too scant to be worthy of study, and too different to incorporate. This book brings together information from a diverse collection of authors working throughout the American Southwest and its fringes to make the bold statement that these groups can be identified in the archaeological record and their sites have much to contribute to the study of cultural process, method and theory, and past lifeways. Mobile groups are integral for assessing the grand reorganizational events of the Late Prehistoric period and are key to understanding colonial contact and transformations. Now, the only analyses, overviews, and class lectures that will be considered comprehensive will be those that address the presence of these many widespread mobile peoples. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607815211
Publisher:	University of Utah Press
Publication date:	01/30/2017
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Deni J. Seymour is a full-time research archaeologist and ethnohistorian. 

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Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

List of Tables xii

Acknowledgments xiii

1 "Fierce, Barbarous, and Untamed": Ending Archaeological Silence on Southwestern Mobile Peoples Deni I. Seymour 1

2 Terminal Puebloan Occupation: An Example from South-Central New Mexico Meade F. Kemrer 16

3 Bison, Trade, and Warfare in Late Prehistoric Southeastern New Mexico: The Perspective from Roswell John D. Speth 28

4 Conceptualizing Mobility in the Eastern Frontier Pueblo Area: Evidence in Images Deni J. Seymour 39

5 Eastern Extension of Lehmer's Jornada Mogollon Ancestors to the Jumano/Suma Patrick H. Beckett 64

6 Embracing a Mobile Heritage: Federal Recognition and Lipan Apache Enelavement Oscar Rodriguez Deni J. Seymour 77

7 Excavations in the Carrizalillo Hills of Southwestern New Mexico Reveal Protohistoric Mobile Group Camps Alexander Kurota 89

8 From Economic Necessity to Cultural Tradition: Spanish Chipped-Stone Technology in New Mexico James L. Moore 106

9 Protohistoric Arrowhead Variability in the Greater Southwest Mark E. Harlan 115

10 Akimel O'odham and Apache Projectile Point Design Chris Loendorf 138

11 Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of the Ceramics of Protohistoric Hunter-Gatherers David V. Hilt 154

12 Architectural Visibility and Population Dynamics in Late Hohokam Prehistory Douglas B. Craig 161

13 Sobaipuri O'odham and Mobile Group Relevance to Late Prehistoric Social Networks in the San Pedro Valley Mark E. Harlan Deni J. Seymour 170

14 Needzíí': Diné Game Traps on the Colorado Plateau James M. Copeland 188

15 The Colorado Wickiup Project: Investigations into the Early Historic Ute Occupation of Western Colorado Curtis Martin 198

16 A Numic and Ancestral Pueblo Ceramic Assemblage at ₄₂UN₅₄₀₆ in the Uintah Basin James A. Truesdale David V. Hill Christopher James (CJ) Truesdale 212

17 Three Sisters Site: An Ancestral Chokonen Apache Encampment in the Dragoon Mountains Deni J. Seymour 222

18 A Protohistoric to Historic Yavapai Persistent Place on the Landscape of Central Arizona: An Example from the Lake Pleasant Rockshelter Site Robert J. Stokes Joanne C. Tactikos 240

19 Now You See 'Em, Now You Don't: In Search of Yavapai Structures in the Verde Valley Peter J. Pities Jr. 256

20 It's Complicated: Discerning the Post-Puebloan Period in Southern Nevada's Archaeological Record Heidi Roberts 281

21 Tweaking the Conventional Wisdom in Southwestern Archaeology David Hurst Thomas 301

References 315

Contributors 365

Index 367

Editorial Reviews

An excellent array of regional case studies spanning the Southwest, from the edge of the Great Plains to California. A consistent, scholarly sound, and very well-rounded volume.”
—John Carpenter, profesor de Investigación Científica, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Centro Insituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia Sonora 

“These essays provide insights into the activities of those often invisible groups whose presence bridged a cultural and temporal span between ‘prehistory’ and the leading edges of ‘history.’ Insofar as the Southwestern archaeological literature is concerned, this book stands alone.”
—David H. Snow, former director and founder of Cross-Cultural Research Systems 

“This excellent book provides an array of information on late mobile societies in the American Southwest. Its most significant contribution, however, is bringing attention to a poorly documented and misunderstood part of the archaeological record—one that we should not continue to ignore.”—Journal of Anthropological Research


“This collection of papers masterfully addresses the goals of the volume to define the archaeological correlates of mobile peoples and their social and economic roles in the protohistoric Southwest. In overthrowing the orthodoxy of Southwestern archaeology, Seymour and the many contributors to the volume demonstrate that the diversity of mobile peoples in the Southwest were not peripheral or of secondary importance to Puebloan groups.”—California Archaeology

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