What's West of Phoenix: Patayan Archaeology of the Lower Gila River
Channel: ArchaeologySouthwest
Date: 2019-03-19

Dr. Aaron Wright, Preservation Archaeologist with Archaeology Southwest, presents "What's West of Phoenix: Patayan Archaeology of the Lower Gila River" in this Archaeology Café at Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix, AZ.  

ABOUT THIS TALK:
The Patayan tradition in southwestern Arizona is commonly dismissed as a mobile hunting-and-gathering lifestyle with little relevance to the Big Picture of Southwest history. This presentation shares recent archaeological and ethnohistoric research that counters this prevailing narrative, and restores Patayan as one of the four main cultural traditions of the indigenous Southwest.

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