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- Title
CONSIDERING UTE ARCHAEOLOGICAL CULTURE: AN ESSAY ON POTENTIALS.
- Authors
BAKER, STEVEN G.
- Abstract
In recent years more and more archaeological energy has been directed toward the study of the Ute-speaking Native Americans who once inhabited eastern Utah and western Colorado. There was once some skepticism about our ability to ever identify Ute sites and derive useful data from their archaeological record. After a few decades of study it has proven possible to identify patterning in the primary household sites of these people and often, by comparison, to distinguish them from the households of non-Utespeaking peoples who also resided about the region. Despite these obvious advances there might be some who still question if it is possible to differentiate among the sparse and transitory individual archaeological residue of these regional groups. This paper summarizes attributes of a patterned Ute household archaeological culture. It also provides brief descriptions and references on other regional archaeological cultures to differentiate the Ute household pattern. The article emphasizes a culture-history approach and it further considers the Ute household archaeological pattern as representing a phylogenetic unit, which is useful in classifying it within a generalized Darwinian theoretical framework. More recording and consideration of ephemeral archaeological evidence and better site descriptions are needed in order to continue to flesh out our understanding of the Ute and other regional phylogenetic units.
- Subjects
COLORADO; UTE (North American people); ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; CULTURAL history; NATIVE American dwellings; LINGUISTIC identity; MATERIAL culture
- Publication
Southwestern Lore, 2013, Vol 79, Issue 3, p5
- ISSN
0038-4844
- Publication type
Essay