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Title

Across the West : human population movement and the expansion of the Numa / edited by David B. Madsen and David Rhode.

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

• Madsen, David B.
• Rhode, David, 1956-

Description

x, 255 pages : illustrations; 29 cm

Subject

• Numic Indians > Migrations > Congresses
• Numic Indians > Antiquities > Congresses
• Great Basin > Antiquities > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-255)

Contents

• Introduction / David Madsen and David Rhode -- 1. Background to the Numic Problem / Mark Q. Sutton and David Rhode -- 2. Legal and Ethnic Implications of the Numic Expansion / Pat Barker and Cynthia Pinto -- 3. Chronology, Glottochronology, and Numic Expansion / Donald K. Grayson -- 4. Mesa Verde and Sleeping Ute Mountain: The Geographical and Chronological Dimensions of the Numic Expansion / David B. Madsen -- 5. Adaptive Strategies and Environmental Change in the Great Basin and Its Peripheries as Determinants in the Migrations of Numic-Speaking Peoples / C. Melvin Aikens -- 6. How, When, and Why Numic Spread / Robert L. Bettinger -- 7. Chronology and the Numic Expansion / David H. Thomas -- 8. Some Thoughts on Cultural Processes for the Numic Expansion / Martha C. Knack -- 9. Methodological Observations on Great Basin Prehistory / Richard E. Hughes -- 10. Can the Rocks Talk? Archaeology and Numic Languages / Kevin T. Jones -- 11. Unpacking the Numic Spread / Steven R. Simms.
• 12. Synchronic Relations among Environment, Language, and Culture as Clues to the Numic Expansion / Joseph G. Jorgensen -- 13. Material Culture and the Proposed Numic Expansion / Catherine S. Fowler -- 14. A Tisket, a Tasket: Looking at the Numic Speakers through the "Lens" of a Basket / J. M. Adovasio and David R. Pedler -- 15. Direct Dating of Brown Ware Ceramics Using Thermoluminescence and Its Relation to the Numic Spread / David Rhode -- 16. The Numic Expansion as Seen from the Mojave Desert / Mark Q. Sutton -- 17. East and onto the Plateaus? An Archaeological Examination of the Numic Expansion in Southern Nevada, Northern Arizona, and Southern Utah / Margaret M. Lyneis -- 18. How Will I Know You? Archaeological Visibility of the Numic Spread in the Western Great Basin / Robert G. Elston -- 19. Invisible from the West: Numic Expansion from the Perspective of the Carson Desert / Christopher Raven.
• 20. Recent Transitions in Eastern Great Basin Prehistory: The Archaeological Record / Joel C. Janetski -- 21. In Search of the Ancestral Northern Shoshone / Richard N. Holmer -- 22. The Numic Occupation of Western Colorado and Eastern Utah during the Prehistoric and Protohistoric Periods / Alan D. Reed -- 23. Betwixt and Between the Basin and the Plains: The Limits of Numic Expansion / Mary Lou Larson and Marcel Kornfeld -- 24. Where Are We? / David Rhode and David B. Madsen.

ISBN

0874804655 (alk. paper)

LCCN

94038859

OCLC

• 31328892
• ocm31328892

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries