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UTE Linguistics and Anasazi Abandonment of the Four Corners Area1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

James A. Goss
James A. Goss*
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles, California
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Abstract

The disappearance of the agricultural Anasazi peoples from the Four Corners area has been popularly attributed to the incursions of predatory tribes. The position of the Ute in aboriginal distribution makes them the obvious candidates for the honor of having evicted the peaceful cliff-dwellers. Analysis shows that the Utes moved into the Four Corners area much later than is customarily thought — probably 400 years after the Anasazi had drifted away.

Type
2 Anthropology
Information
Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology , Volume 19: Contributions of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project , October 1965 , pp. 73 - 81
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1965 

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Footnotes

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This is Contribution No. 12 of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project.

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