Nomads of the Desert West: A shifting continuum in prehistory |
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Authors: | Steadman Upham |
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Affiliation: | (1) The Graduate School and the Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, 97403 Eugene, Oregon |
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Abstract: | The Desert West, a term first employed by Jesse D. Jennings to describe the geographic region where Desert culture evolved, is used to frame a discussion of adaptive diversity that focuses on the time period 1250 to 750 B.P. Variable pathways into and out of sedentism are explored and subsistence intensification, exchange, ideology, and warfare are discussed in relation to an adaptive mosaic of nomads and agriculturalists. I argue that a conjoint prehistory of the Great Basin and the Southwest is both possible and desirable and is needed to illuminate general social processes and major episodes of culture change affecting groups in the Desert West. |
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Keywords: | nomadism Desert West sedentism agriculture Desert culture |
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