Norton Allen's Excavations in the San Pedro and Dripping Spring Valleys of Southeastern Arizona

• Published in: Journal of the Southwest Vol. 52; no. 2/3; pp. 323 - 361
• Main Author: Lyons, Patrick D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tucson The Southwest Center at the University of Arizona 22.06.2010; The Southwest Center, University of Arizona; University of Arizona
• Subjects: Allen, Norton; Antiquities; Archaeological excavation; Archaeological sites; Archaeology; Arizona; Ceramics; Culture; Diaspora; Discovery and exploration; Ditches; Equipment and supplies; Excavations; Excavations (Archaeology); Immigrants; Museums; Native American culture; Native Americans; Noncitizens; Paleoanthropology; Pottery; R&D; Ranches; Redware; Research & development; Salvage archaeology; Valleys; Arizona; San Pedro River
• ISSN: 0894-8410; 2158-1371; 2158-1371
• DOI: 10.1353/jsw.2010.0008

[...] Norton's notes identify a ceramic figurine (described below) as having been excavated in 1939 from a Classic period house on Mesa east of Rcho. A map of a portion of the San Pedro Valley drawn by Norton for Eugene Conrotto's book, Lost Desert Bonanzas (1963:133) also shows Feldman in approximately the same place.\n Also present are many objects that, in context, lend credence to a recently developed model of the origin and spread of Roosevelt Red Ware: the notion that this pottery was made over generations by dispersed enclaves of Kayenta immigrants and their descendants, living in diaspora among different host groups and maintaining a shared identity through a network of ties among these enclaves (Lyons 2003; Lyons, Hull, and Clark 2010; Lyons and Lindsay 2006).