From the Land of Ever Winter to the American Southwest: Athapaskan Migrations, Mobility, and Ethnogenesis
by Deni J. Seymour
University of Utah Press, 2012 eISBN: 978-1-60781-994-3 | Cloth: 978-1-60781-175-6 Library of Congress Classification E99.A86F78 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 978.004972
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Athapaskan departure from the Canadian Subarctic centuries ago and their subsequent arrival in the American Southwest has remained the subject of continuous debate in anthropological research. This book examines archaeological, genetic, linguistic, and traditional oral history data and brings them together in fresh ways, in many cases for the first time. With a backdrop of these new and interrelated lines of evidence, each subfield must now reevaluate its approach and the forms of evidence it uses to construct arguments.
The contributors here include the most knowledgeable scholars in each of the above fields, collectively providing the most up-to-date research on early Athapaskans and their movements and migrations. Each chapter approaches Athapaskan migration with data obtained from different regions, providing clarity as to the basis for individual arguments. Often, entrenched regional visualizations and localized conventions are clarified only when placed in juxtaposition to those of other regions. Because of this, conclusions rest on sometimes widely divergent theoretical and methodological underpinnings, thus expressing preference for and conveying weight to certain types of evidence and lines of reasoning. The goal of this volume is to expose these arguments in order to clarify appropriate directions for future research, making advances possible.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Deni J. Seymour has research affiliations with the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Arizona as well as at Jornada Research. She is author of Where the Earth and Sky Are Sewn Together: Sobaipuri-O’odham Contexts of Contact and Colonialism (The University of Utah Press, 2011).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Tables
1. Athapaskan Migrations, Mobility,and Ethnogenesis: AnIntroduction Deni J. Seymour
2. Apachean Archaeology of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, and the Colorado Front Range Robert H. Brunswig
3. Looking for Lovitt in All the Wrong Places: Migration Models and the Athapaskan Diaspora as Viewed from Eastern Colorado Kevin P. Gilmore and Sean Larmore
4. TierraBlanca: A Complex Issue David T. Hughes
5. Isolating a Pre-differentiation Athapaskan Assemblage in the Southern Southwest: The Cerro Rojo Complex Deni J. Seymour
6. Emergence of the Navajo People David M. Brugge
7. Navajo Emergence in Dinétah: Social Imaginary and Archaeology Douglas D. Dykeman and Paul Roebuck
8. We Do Not Forget
We Remember: Mescalero Apache Origins and Migration as Reflected in Place Names David L. Carmichael and Claire R. Farrer
9. Finding and Not Finding Athapaskans in the Archaeological Record Using Percentage Stratigraphy Dale Walde
10. Variation in the Production of Ceramics by Athapaskans in the Western United States David V. Hill
11. DNA Evidence of a Prehistoric Athapaskan Migration from the Subarctic to the Southwest of North America Ripan S. Malhi
12. Linguistic Evidence Regarding the Apachean Migration Keren Rice
13. Apache Names in Spanish and Early Mexican Documents:What They Can Tell Us about the Early Contact Apache Dialect Situation Willem J. de Reuse
14. Southern Athapaskan Quotative Evidentials: A Discursive Areal Typology Anthony K. Webster
15. The Ancestral Chipewyan Became the Navajo and Apache: New Support for a Northwest Plains–Mountain Route to the American Southwest Bryan C. Gordon
16. Modeling Athapaskan Migrations Martin P. R. Magne
17. “Big Trips” and Historic Apache Movement and Interaction: Models for Early Athapaskan Migrations Deni J. Seymour
18. Issues in Athapaskan Prehistory Roy L. Carlson
List of Contributors
Index
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From the Land of Ever Winter to the American Southwest: Athapaskan Migrations, Mobility, and Ethnogenesis
by Deni J. Seymour
University of Utah Press, 2012 eISBN: 978-1-60781-994-3 Cloth: 978-1-60781-175-6
The Athapaskan departure from the Canadian Subarctic centuries ago and their subsequent arrival in the American Southwest has remained the subject of continuous debate in anthropological research. This book examines archaeological, genetic, linguistic, and traditional oral history data and brings them together in fresh ways, in many cases for the first time. With a backdrop of these new and interrelated lines of evidence, each subfield must now reevaluate its approach and the forms of evidence it uses to construct arguments.
The contributors here include the most knowledgeable scholars in each of the above fields, collectively providing the most up-to-date research on early Athapaskans and their movements and migrations. Each chapter approaches Athapaskan migration with data obtained from different regions, providing clarity as to the basis for individual arguments. Often, entrenched regional visualizations and localized conventions are clarified only when placed in juxtaposition to those of other regions. Because of this, conclusions rest on sometimes widely divergent theoretical and methodological underpinnings, thus expressing preference for and conveying weight to certain types of evidence and lines of reasoning. The goal of this volume is to expose these arguments in order to clarify appropriate directions for future research, making advances possible.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Deni J. Seymour has research affiliations with the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Arizona as well as at Jornada Research. She is author of Where the Earth and Sky Are Sewn Together: Sobaipuri-O’odham Contexts of Contact and Colonialism (The University of Utah Press, 2011).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Tables
1. Athapaskan Migrations, Mobility,and Ethnogenesis: AnIntroduction Deni J. Seymour
2. Apachean Archaeology of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, and the Colorado Front Range Robert H. Brunswig
3. Looking for Lovitt in All the Wrong Places: Migration Models and the Athapaskan Diaspora as Viewed from Eastern Colorado Kevin P. Gilmore and Sean Larmore
4. TierraBlanca: A Complex Issue David T. Hughes
5. Isolating a Pre-differentiation Athapaskan Assemblage in the Southern Southwest: The Cerro Rojo Complex Deni J. Seymour
6. Emergence of the Navajo People David M. Brugge
7. Navajo Emergence in Dinétah: Social Imaginary and Archaeology Douglas D. Dykeman and Paul Roebuck
8. We Do Not Forget
We Remember: Mescalero Apache Origins and Migration as Reflected in Place Names David L. Carmichael and Claire R. Farrer
9. Finding and Not Finding Athapaskans in the Archaeological Record Using Percentage Stratigraphy Dale Walde
10. Variation in the Production of Ceramics by Athapaskans in the Western United States David V. Hill
11. DNA Evidence of a Prehistoric Athapaskan Migration from the Subarctic to the Southwest of North America Ripan S. Malhi
12. Linguistic Evidence Regarding the Apachean Migration Keren Rice
13. Apache Names in Spanish and Early Mexican Documents:What They Can Tell Us about the Early Contact Apache Dialect Situation Willem J. de Reuse
14. Southern Athapaskan Quotative Evidentials: A Discursive Areal Typology Anthony K. Webster
15. The Ancestral Chipewyan Became the Navajo and Apache: New Support for a Northwest Plains–Mountain Route to the American Southwest Bryan C. Gordon
16. Modeling Athapaskan Migrations Martin P. R. Magne
17. “Big Trips” and Historic Apache Movement and Interaction: Models for Early Athapaskan Migrations Deni J. Seymour
18. Issues in Athapaskan Prehistory Roy L. Carlson
List of Contributors
Index
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