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Nineteenth-century Apache wickiups: historically documented models for archaeological signatures of the dwellings of mobile people

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Deni J. Seymour
Deni J. Seymour*
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*The Southwest Center, 1052 North Highland Avenue, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA (Email: denijseymour@aol.com)
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Abstract

Highly mobile people must have sheltered in structures of some kind; but these are notoriously difficult to find. The author uses nineteenth-century photographs of an occupied Apache settlement to show how such shelters may have been made, comparing them with their archaeological remains in the present day. This suggests a ‘signature’ for the temporary shelters used by mobile groups in any period.

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American SouthwestPalaeolithicApachewickiupsheltersettlementmobile groups
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Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue 319 , March 2009 , pp. 157 - 164
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2009

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