The Kaiparowits Puebloans: Kayentan or Virgin Migrants?
Author(s): Phil Geib
Year: 2018
Summary
More than 50 years ago archaeologists identified a high-density of Puebloan habitations on the Kaiparowits Plateau in southern Utah. Analysis of pottery from these habitations by James Gunnerson and Florence Lister resulted in conflicting interpretations of cultural affiliation. Gunnerson argued for a Virgin affiliation whereas Lister argued for a Kayentan affiliation. Lister’s interpretation triumphed and the Puebloan occupation of the Kaiparowits was attributed to migration from the south during Pueblo II. Architectural and artifactual evidence fails to support a Kayentan migration but rather an expansion of Puebloan groups from the west and southwest.
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The Kaiparowits Puebloans: Kayentan or Virgin Migrants?. Phil Geib. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444336)
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Keywords
General
Ancestral Pueblo
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Ceramic Analysis
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Migration
Geographic Keywords
North America: Southwest United States
Spatial Coverage
min long: -124.365; min lat: 25.958 ; max long: -93.428; max lat: 41.902 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 20198