Scouting for Apache Archaeology in the Sub–mogollon Rim Region

Herr, Sarah; North, Chris; Wood, Jason

doi:10.1179/kiv.2009.75.1.003

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“…AD 200, with continuous, intensive occupation after AD 1000 (Haury, 1985a(Haury, [1940; Sayles, 1985 [1947]; Mills, 1999;Mills and Herr, 1999;Roos, 2005). Archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence documents intensive Western Apache use of the Mogollon Rim region, including the Forestdale and Day Wash areas, for at least the past 440 years (Basso, 1998;Herr et al, 2009).…”

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Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona

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The impact of Indigenous populations on historical fire regimes has been controversial and beset by mismatches in the geographic scale of paleofire reconstructions and the scale of land-use behaviors. It is often assumed that anthropogenic burning is linearly related to population density and not different cultural practices. Here we take an off-site geoarchaeology strategy to reconstruct variability in historical fire regimes (<1000 years ago) at geographic scales that match the archaeological, ethnohistorical, and oral tradition evidence for variability in the intensity of Indigenous land use by two different cultural groups (Ancestral Pueblo and Western Apache). We use multiple, independent proxies from three localities in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests in east-Central Arizona to reconstruct fire regime variability during four phases of cultural use of different intensities. Elevated charcoal with domesticate pollen (Zea spp.) but otherwise unchanged forest pollen assemblages characterized intensive land use by Ancestral Pueblo people during an early phase, suggesting fire use to support agricultural activities. By contrast, a phase of intensive pre-reservation Western Apache land use corresponded to little change in charcoal, but had elevated ash-derived phosphorus and elevated grass and ruderal pollen suggestive of enhanced burning in fine fuels to promote economically important wild plants.

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Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona

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“…Archaeological studies of Western and Chiricahua Apache groups have addressed the identification and discussion of material culture and sites (Beidl, 1990;Ciolek-Torrello, 1981a;Donaldson and Welch, 1991;Ferg, 1977Ferg, , 1987Ferg, , 1992Ferg, , 2003Ferg, , 2004Ferg and Tessman, 1997;Gifford, 1980;Gregory, 1981;Seymour and Harlan, 1996;Welch, 1994;Welch and Bostwick, 1998;; the identification and analysis of material culture, and application of archaeological dating techniques (Baugh and Sechrist, 2001;Ferg, 1995aFerg, , 1995bHaecker, 2012;Herr, North and Wood 2009;Herr et al, 2011;Sechrist, 2008;Seymour, 2002aSeymour, , 2002bSeymour, , 2004Seymour, , 2008Seymour, , 2009aSeymour, , 2009bSeymour, , 2010Seymour, , 2013Whittlesey and Benaron, 1997); and more social, politically driven research focused on collaboration and Apache interpretations of their own history (Ferguson and Colwell-Chanthaphonh, 2006;Herr, 2011Herr, , 2013Krall and Randall, 2009;Welch, 1997Welch, , 2001Welch and Ferguson, 2007).…”

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The indivisibility of land and mind: Indigenous knowledge and collaborative archaeology within Apache contexts

Laluk

2017

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Contemporary understandings of Apache history and culture have largely resulted from anthropological work by non-Apache researchers. Most of this work has exhibited a limited appreciation of Apache ontologies that provide better understandings of Apache past and present. The goal of this article is to utilize the Apache concept of Ni and Apache interpretations of the Chiricahua mountainscape to demonstrate how Apache communities retain significant and powerful links to the Chiricahua Mountains. It also provides a discussion of the dilemma of utilizing Western theory in collaborative projects with Apache communities and the need to focus more on tribally derived knowledge. Such knowledge can provide unique glimpses into the Apache past and associations to their former homelands that are crucial for contemporary collaborative archaeological–anthropological research projects involving Apache cultural experts and their ancestral homelands.

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“….13), early-twentieth-century sites on the reservation (Goodwin 1942: Map III), and the late-twentieth-century Tonto Apache camp built with U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) housing at Payson(Esber 1972;Herr et al 2009;Herr 2011) (Figure 5). The patterned use of wickiups for cooking and storage and extramural space for cooking, work, and trash disposal also…”

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Scouting for Apache Archaeology in the Sub–mogollon Rim Region

Cited by 3 publications

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Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona

Stratigraphic evidence for culturally variable Indigenous fire regimes in ponderosa pine forests of the Mogollon Rim area, east-central Arizona

The indivisibility of land and mind: Indigenous knowledge and collaborative archaeology within Apache contexts

In Search of Lost Landscapes: The Pre-Reservation Western Apache Archaeology of Central Arizona

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