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Plateau Shoshonean Prehistory: A Suggested Reconstruction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James H. Gunnerson*
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Abstract

A striking correspondence between linguistic and archaeological data suggests: (1) that the Virgin branch Anasazi people were the proto-Plateau Shoshoneans; and (2) that the Fremont and Sevier peoples, whose cultures are considered northern expansions of the Virgin culture, are represented historically by the Ute-Southern Paiute and Shoshone-Comanche respectively, while the Virgin branch people themselves are represented by the Northern Paiute.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1962

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