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By Ronald H. Towner

ISBN-10: 0874805007

ISBN-13: 9780874805000

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Map of areas and sites discussed in the text. Page 15 Gunnerson 1971; C. F Schaafsma 1981, this volume). The other school (Brugge 1983; Hall 1944; Haskell 1987; Huscher and Huscher 1942; Perry 1991) advocates a pre-1500 arrival by way of the mountains and valleys of Colorado. Although only Schaafsma addresses this issue directly, three other papers in this volume (Fetterman, Brown, Reed and Reed) have serious implications for both models. The second major issue in Navajo archaeology has been the migration of the Navajo out of their Dinétah homeland and expansion throughout large portions of Arizona and New Mexico.

Keur's excavations at Big Bead Mesa (1941) and in the Largo-Gobernador area (1944) marked a resumption of interest in Navajo culture history and archaeological sites. Keur used both her own data and Kidder's suggestions to postulate (a) ethnic coresidence by Navajo and Pueblo groups in the Gobernador area and (b) declining Puebloan influence in Navajo culture at the later Big Bead Mesa occupation. She suggested that the Athapaskans entered the Southwest neither through the Great Basin nor Intermontane areas, but probably by way of the High Plains in eastern Colorado and New Mexico (1941:74).

General Considerations Interest in the protohistoric period of the greater Southwest (Vierra and Gualtieri 1992; D. R. Wilcox and Masse 1981) requires dealing with an interface between academic disciplines as well as a wide range of modern American Indian people who are often very much affected by the deliberations of scholars. Legal considerations come into play with land claims and the consultation requirements of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. There are real needs to seek the most responsible interpretations possible.

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