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Archaeological Visibility and the Underclass of Southwestern Prehistory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Steadman Upham
Steadman Upham*
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Graduate School, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003
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Abstract

Archaeologists interpreting the patterns of prehistory in the American Southwest have been influenced dramatically by the obtrusiveness of certain kinds of archaeological remains and by the remarkable record of continuity they suggest. Low-visibility archaeological remains and discontinuous developmental sequences have been accorded only minor significance in southwestern prehistory, in spite of the fact that occupational "discontinuities" are evident in the archaeological record of many regions. In this paper, two examples are presented to show how low-visibility archaeological remains support a discontinuous model of cultural development on the Colorado Plateaus.

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American Antiquity , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 245 - 261
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1988

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