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GERONIMO |
GERONIMO'S WICKIUP: MOBILE GROUP HUT SIGNATURES Deni J. Seymour (c) 2007-2008 (under review in a revised form) Also see: 2009 Nineteenth-Century Apache Wickiups: Historically Documented Models for Archaeological Signatures of the Dwellings of Mobile People. Antiquity 83(319):157-164 [March]. DOWNLOAD |
The location of one of Geronimo and Naiche's attempted surrender sites is known. Visits to this location to examine the archaeological signature of the housing features, the artifacts, and landscape setting provide a direct connection between history and on-the-ground archaeological evidence. Using this information it is possible to accurately characterize the nature of the archaeological evidence we should be looking for to find Apache sites and the habitation locations of other highly mobile groups. The evidence is unobtrusive and difficult to accept for many--especially ethnohistorians who are used to black-and-white messages on tangible pages--but it is no less real than the remains of other mobile groups throughout the basin-and-range and desert West. |
THE MATERIAL ON THIS PAGE IS COPYRIGHTED AND SHOULD BE APPROPRIATELY CITED (C) 2007-2008, Deni Seymour |
Geronimo is one of the best-known cultural heroes of the American West. Known for his tenacity against formidable enemies he fought to remain free...so the legend goes. The archaeological record has an advantage of presenting a sober and impassive perspective of important historical figures and the lifeway they represented. |