Dating Paiute-Shoshoni Expansion in the Great Basin
- 20 January 1975
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 40 (1) , 82-86
- https://doi.org/10.2307/279271
Abstract
Corroboration of linguistic evidence for the northward expansion of Numic speakers from the southwestern Great Basin around A.D. 1000 is provided by the dating of Paiute-Shoshoni pottery. At eight stratified eastern Great Basin sites, this distinctive pottery is associated with Anasazi and/or Fremont ceramics, supporting the hypothesis that competition with Numic speaking groups was partially responsible for the disappearance of the Fremont culture.Keywords
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