Defending the Dinetah: Pueblitos in the Ancestral Navajo Homeland - Rilegato

Towner, Ronald H.

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ISBN 10: 0874807743 ISBN 13: 9780874807745

Casa editrice: Univ of Utah Pr, 2003

Riassunto

Among the most striking features of the northwestern New Mexico landscape are the more than 130 fortresses and towers built on boulders, promontories, and mesa rims. These "pueblitos" in the traditional Navajo homeland of Dinetah have been a key piece of evidence used by archaeologists to infer a massive immigration of Puebloans into the Navajo country following the Spanish re-conquest of New Mexico (ca. 1700), yet they have never been comprehensively analyzed. Using a database of tree-ring dates taken from beams and wood used to construct these pueblitos, Ronald Towner shows in this volume that most pueblitos are unrelated to Puebloan immigration or the re-conquest. He concludes that Navajos constructed the masonry structures and hogans contemporaneously for protection against Ute raiders and later Spanish entradas. Further, most were occupied for relatively brief periods and population density was much lower than has been assumed. Towner points to a new model of Navajo ethnogenesis, based on a revised early population distribution and a variety of other means of incorporating non-Athapaskan elements into Navajo culture, making"Defending the Dinetah"a major contribution to Navajo studies."

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Utah Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0874807743
• ISBN 13: 9780874807745
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 208