The Davis Ranch site: a Kayenta immigrant enclave in southeastern Arizona. Tucson: University Press of Arizona ; 978-0-8165-3854-6 hardback $80

Rex E. Gerald & Patrick D. Lyons (ed.). 2019. The Davis Ranch site: a Kayenta immigrant enclave in southeastern Arizona. Tucson: University Press of Arizona ; 978-0-8165-3854-6 hardback $80. The Davis Ranch site is a monumental achievement in many ways. As a site excavation report, its thoroughn...

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Published inAntiquity Vol. 94; no. 374; pp. 545 - 547
Main Author Hill, J Brett
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2020
Subjects
Archaeology
Ceramics
Distinctiveness
Excavation
Historic artifacts
Immigrants
Social evolution
Social relations
United States > US
San Pedro River
Arizona
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Summary:Rex E. Gerald & Patrick D. Lyons (ed.). 2019. The Davis Ranch site: a Kayenta immigrant enclave in southeastern Arizona. Tucson: University Press of Arizona ; 978-0-8165-3854-6 hardback $80. The Davis Ranch site is a monumental achievement in many ways. As a site excavation report, its thoroughness and execution are superlative, a tribute to the efforts of dozens of scholars over a span of more than 60 years. But it is more than an excavation report; it is also a fascinating glimpse into past social lives, with uncommon precision afforded by unusual conditions. To put things in context, the archaeological record of the American Southwest has a diversity and distinctiveness that has always encouraged scholars to make fine-grained divisions among a multitude of archaeological cultures. A major distinction was identified in the early twentieth century, between the Hohokam of southern Arizona and Puebloan groups to the north-east.
ISSN:0003-598X
1745-1744
DOI:10.15184/aqy.2020.55