The Zuni are a Southwestern people whose origins have long intrigued anthropologists. This volume presents fresh approaches to that question from both anthropological and traditional perspectives,
Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Tittle Award.
Zuni Origins contains an astonishing range of data, insights, arguments, and perhaps a hint at how a new synthesis of Southwestern archaeology might be accomplished. It is a bold and productive attempt to evaluate an intriguing and important question. . . . A landmark volume.
—Journal of Field Archaeology
In format, scope, and quality of scholarship this volume is a Handbook of North American Indians just for Zuni. The book sets new standards for the archaeological assessment of culture genesis and development.
—Canadian Journal of Archaeology
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exploring the origins of the tribe and the influences that have affected their way of life. Utilizing macro-regional approaches, it brings together many decades of research in the Zuni and Mogollon
areas, incorporating archaeological evidence, environmental data, and linguistic analyses to propose new links among early Southwestern peoples.
The findings reported here postulate the
differentiation of the Zuni language at least 7,000 to 8,000 years ago, following the initial peopling of the hemisphere, and both formulate and test the hypothesis that many Mogollon populations were
Zunian speakers. Some of the contributions situate Zuni within the developmental context of Southwestern societies from Paleoindian to Mogollon. Others test the Mogollon-Zuni hypothesis by searching
for contrasts between these and neighboring peoples and tracing these contrasts through macro-regional analyses of environments, sites, pottery, basketry, and rock art. Several studies of late
prehistoric and protohistoric settlement systems in the Zuni area then express more cautious views on the Mogollon connection and present insights from Zuni traditional history and cultural geography.
Two internationally known scholars then critique the essays, and the editors present a new research design for pursuing the question of Zuni origins.
By taking stock and synthesizing what is
currently known about the origins of the Zuni language and the development of modern Zuni culture, Zuni Origins is the only volume to address this subject with such a breadth of data and
interpretations. It will prove invaluable to archaeologists working throughout the North American Southwest as well as to others struggling with issues of ethnicity, migration, incipient agriculture,
and linguistic origins.
CONTENTS
Foreword by William H. Doelle
Preface: Constructing and Refining a Research Design for the Study of Zuni Origins
David A. Gregory and David R. Wilcox
Acknowledgments
Part I
Large-Scale Contexts for the Study of Zuni Origins: Language, Culture, and Environment
1. Introduction: The Structure of Anthropological Inquiry into Zuni Origins
David R. Wilcox and David A. Gregory
2. Prehistoric Cultural and Linguistic Patterns in the Southwest since 5 BC
Cynthia Irwin Williams (1967)
3. The Zuni Language in Southwestern Areal Context
Jane H. Hill
4. Archaeological Concepts for Assessing Mogollon-Zuni Connections
Jeffery J. Clark
5. The Environmental Context of Linguistic Differentiation and Other Cultural Developments in the Prehistoric Southwest
David A. Gregory and Fred L. Nials
6. Zuni-Area Paleoenvironment
Jeffrey S. Dean
Part II
Placing Zuni in the Development of Southwestern Societies: From Paleoindian to Mogollon
7. The Archaic Origins of the Zuni: Preliminary Explorations
R. G. Matson
8. Zuni Emergent Agriculture: Economic Strategies and the Origins of Zuni
Jonathan E. Damp
9. A Mogollon-Zuni Hypothesis: Paul Sidney Martin and John B. Rinaldo’s Formulation
David A. Gregory
10. Adaptation of Man to the Mountains: Revising the Mogollon Concept
David A. Gregory and David R. Wilcox (1999)
11. Mogollon Trajectories and Divergences
Michael W. Diehl
Part III
Zuni in the Puebloan World: Mogollon-Zuni Connections
12. Zuni in the Puebloan and Southwestern Worlds
David R. Wilcox, David A. Gregory, and J. Brett Hill
13. A Regional Perspective on Ceramics and Zuni Identity, AD 200--1630
Barbara J. Mills
14. Mogollon Pottery Production and Exchange
C. Dean Wilson
15. Rock Art of the Zuni Region: Cultural Historical Implications
Polly Schaafsma and M. Jane Y
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