Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

The archaeology of Navajo origins / edited by Ronald H. Towner.

By: Towner, Ronald H
Contributor(s): Society for American Archaeology. Annual meeting ((58: 1993: St). Louis)
Language: English Publisher: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 1996.Description: xii, 322p. : ill., maps, plans, tables ; 23cm.ISBN: 0874805007
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book British Museum Africa Oceania and the Americas Open Shelves KUB [TOW-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available M32773
Total holds: 0

References: p.275-311. - Papers from a symposium, "Changing perceptions of Navajo culture: the archaeology of the Pre-Fort Sumner period" at the 58th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis Missouri, 1993. - Contents: I, Archaeological concepts of Navajo origins. Questions and problems / R.H. Towner, Jeffrey S. Dean; Ethnic identity and protohistoric implications for the reconstructions of Navajo and Ute history / C.F. Schaafsma; The protohistoric transition in the northern San Juan region / Gary M. Brown; Radiocarbon and tree-ring dating / J. Fetterman; Reexamining Gobernador polychrome / P.F. & L.S. Reed; Protohistoric and early historic Navajo lithic technology / T.M. Kearns; II, Navajo expansion out of the Dinétah. The Pueblito phenomenon / R.H. Towner; Early Navajo occupation west of the Chuska mountains / D. Gilpin; The early Navajo occupation of the Grand Canyon region / R.M. Begay, Alexandra Roberts; III, Archaeological evidence of Navajo ceremonialism. In the shadow of the holy people / J.M. Copeland, Hugh C. Rogers; Material correlates of early Navajo ceremonialism / Charles W. Wheeler, Scott Wilcox, David O. Ayers; IV, Conclusion. A promising past / D.M. Brugge.