A Preliminary Assessment of Athapaskan Land-Use Strategies in the Central High Plains

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Athapaskans entered the Central High Plains as part of a large migration from the Yukon River Basin. As these populations left the basin and moved south, they encountered new resources, resource distributions, landforms, and competition with local communities that would have challenged their existing land-use strategies, including settlement and mobility. This research begins to examine how Athapaskan land use strategies changed in response to settling across these regions by analyzing the spatial patterning of Athapaskan sites to landscape features on the Central High Plains. This research focuses on the plains and foothills of Colorado and Wyoming to identify which factors influenced Athapaskan settlement and how these patterns compare at local and regional scales.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 32797