D J Seymour
Biographic Data
| ID | 34861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D J Seymour |
| GIVEN NAMES | D J |
| FAMILY NAME | Seymour |
| SIGNATURE | SEYMOUR D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1626-6797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Armas de la Tierra: Unconventional Weaponry of the Coronado Expedition
Armas de la tierra, mentioned in the muster roll for the Coronado expedition, have remained an enigma. Coronado expedition sites in southern Arizona have yielded considerable evidence to address this research issue at three locales. These newly defined unconventional metal point types are thought to be the southern equivalent of sheet and short block copper points found in New Mexico and Texas, where these southern types are absent, and all repre…
Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence: The Coronado Expedition's 1541 Suya Settlement
The first Coronado expedition site discovered south of Zuni, in Arizona, represents the first European settlement in the American Southwest-a place called Suya (San Geronimo III). Investigations have revealed an impressive assortment of early sixteenth-century artifacts and features. The structured layout is reflected in concentrations of both household- and battle-related artifacts. Artifacts and substantial adobe-and-stone structures indicate a…
A Multi-evidential Approach to Locating Chichilticale of the 1539-1542 Coronado Expedition
Chichilticale is a long-sought-after location on the Coronado expedition route in southeastern Arizona. It is referred to numerous times in documents, and various expedition members stayed there, making it potentially one of the most discoverable of the Coronado expedition camp sites. Nonetheless, it remained lost until recently when data from a variety of sources provided a basis to establish hypotheses that were then tested and retested until C…
A Muted Legacy: O’odham Encounters with the Coronado Expedition
Coronado’s Cannon: A 1539-42 Coronado Expedition Cannon Discovered in Arizona
The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival. By Paul Conrad
Journal Article The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival. By Paul Conrad Get access The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival By Paul Conrad (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. 366 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, index. $34.95.) Deni J Seymour Deni J Seymour Independent Research Archaeologist/EthnohistorianTucson, Arizona, USA [email protected] Search for other works by this au…
“Submerges … Coming out Again and Then Flowing”: What Historical Documents Tell Us About the Character of the Santa Cruz River
The Santa Cruz River, like all the major rivers in southeastern Arizona and the region, had a permanent year-round flow that was restricted to limited segments of the river. This is where the Sobaipuri O’odham established their villages because the reliable surface flow allowed them to farm with irrigation canals. Early historical period observations indicate that the Santa Cruz and other regional rivers were characterized by patchworks of pastur…
Finding Father Kino’s San Xavier del Wa: K
San Xavier Del Wa: K’s Late-Eighteenth-Century Fortified Village Revealed in Early Imagery and Texts
Some of the earliest historical drawings and photographs provide a fragmentary look at a long-gone defensive village occupied by San Xavier del Bac’s O’odham residents. Together these images reveal the character of a village that had been lost to history. Having moved the village south sometime between 1772 and 1780, during the Franciscan period, the new Wa:k O’odham village took on a form that differed substantially from the traditional Sobaipur…
Making Ways: Historical Insights into Accommodation and Resiliency
New Mexico and the Pimeria Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest
This volume focuses on two disciplinary divisions that also reflected administrative regions in Spanish Colonial times: New Mexico and the Pimeria Alta. Chapter 1, written by the editors, provides
Defining the Jocome and Their “Gifts of Little Value
Many mobile hunter-gatherer-raiders were identified in what is now southern Arizona, New Mexico, and in northern Sonora and Chihuahua by Spanish chroniclers at and long after first contact. Despite their ubiquity, most have yet to be identified. The Jocome—a group that featured prominently in fifteenth- through eighteenth-century regional politics—were among these and until recently little has been known about them except for a few documentary re…
Mobile visitors to the Eastern Frontier Pueblos: An archaeological example from Tabirá
For some time archaeologists have sought evidence of interactions noted in Spanish documents between mobile groups and the Eastern Frontier Pueblos specifically at the Salinas Pueblos. Most effort has focused on the examination and excavation of the pueblos themselves, either under the assumption that visitors routinely lived within the pueblos or because evidence of mobile visitors around and outside the pueblo has not been forthcoming. Surveys …
Emerging from Theoretical Anarchy in Anthropological Archaeology
Although the focus and underpinnings have adjusted through time, Americanist archaeology is founded on the notion that anthropology plays an important role in archaeology. Even now the nature of anthropological archaeology is transforming to incorporate modern developments and lessons from our predecessors. Anthropological archaeology remains vibrant, maintaining sensitivity to current trends and methodological, theoretical, and conceptual advanc…
Geronimo’s Wickiup: Methological Considerations Regarding Mobile Group Hut Signatures
Platform cache encampments: Implications for mobility strategies and the earliest ancestral Apaches
The Hormiguero site is a large mountainside Apache residential site in the Peloncillo Mountains of southern Arizona that lies in the heart of historically documented Chiricahua Apache territory. It represents an encampment at an important caching location, a category of residential site that has not been previously described archaeologically. Ethnographic data are enlisted to understand this unique type of Apache residential site and a previously…
When Data Speak Back: Resolving Source Conflict in Apache Residential and Fire-Making Behavior
Gateways for Athabascan Migration to the American Southwest
The earliest known dates (A.D. 1300s and 1400s) for ancestral Athabascans are found along the Rio Grande valley in the Southwest and in the bordering mountains of southern New Mexico and Arizona. This evidence suggests that there was at least one mountain or intermontane route into the Southwest, probably in addition to Plains routes. Still unanswered has been why the earliest Athabascan sites are located where they are and not in adjacent areas.…
In the Trenches Around the Ivory Tower: Introduction to Black-and-White Issues About the Grey Literature
Sanctioned Inequity and Accessibility Issues in the Grey Literature in the United States
Cycles of Renewal, Transportable Assets: Aspects of Ancestral Apache Housing
Ancestral Apachean groups in the mountainous American Southwest used huts or wickiups rather than tipis and so their habitation sites tend to defy recognition. The housing types used by these southernmost and westernmost ancestral Apache are much more subtle, variable, and blend into the mountainous terrain, unlike their later conical tipi counterparts in this area and on the Southern Plains. Elsewhere some of the correlates for these types of st…
Contextual Incongruities, Statistical Outliers, and Anomalies: Targeting Inconspicuous Occupational Events
New methodologies are needed to address multiple componentcy and short reuse episodes that are characteristic of mobile group residential and logistical strategies. Chronometric results are often misinterpreted when evaluated within a framework suited to long-term sedentary occupations. The standard practices of age-averaging, eliminating apparent 'anomalous' results, and relying on high profile diagnostic tools and vessels and the most visible f…
Distinctive Places, Suitable Spaces: Conceptualizing Mobile Group Occupational Duration and Landscape Use
Father Kino's “Neat Little House and Church” at Guevavi
Father Kino’s “Neat Little House and Church” at Guevavi Deni J. Seymour Background and Introduction Some fifteen years ago Seymour (1997; also see Seymour 1991a, 1991b, 1993a) reported on a Sobaípuri-O’odham habitation site situated near the standing but gradually melting adobe walls of the large San Miguel de Guevavi mission complex that was built in 1751 (Figure 1). It was suggested that this unassuming archaeological locus (AZ EE:9:132, ASM) m…
The Canutillo Complex: Evidence of Protohistoric Mobile Occupants in the Southern Southwest
Early Spanish documentary sources refer to a number of mobile groups in southern Arizona and southern New Mexico, including but not limited to the Jano, Jocome, Manso, and Suma. These groups have remained unidentified archaeologically, and their history is often conflated with that of ancestral Apachean groups. Investigations aimed at identifying and distinguishing the suite of mobile and semisedentary groups who occupied the southern Southwest h…
A Ranchería in the Gran Apachería: Evidence of Intercultural Interaction at the Cerro Rojo Site
A large multi-ethnic hilltop village site, or grand ranchería, in the Hueco Mountains of southern New Mexioc and southwest Texas provides evidence of intercultural interaction during the late 1700s and earlier. Occupied by the Apache and renegade segments of the local nomadic groups of Plains origin, this site, with its 275 features, conveys the state of affairs that confronted these groups, and at the same time tests the accuracy of certain aspe…
The Canutillo Complex: Evidence of Protohistoric Mobile Occupants in the Southern Southwest
Early Spanish documentary sources refer to a number of mobile groups in southern Arizona and southern New Mexico, including but not limited to the Jano, Jocome, Manso, and Suma. These groups have remained unidentified archaeologically, and their history is often conflated with that of ancestral Apachean groups. Investigations aimed at identifying and distinguishing the suite of mobile and semisedentary groups who occupied the southern Southwest h…
Contextual Incongruities, Statistical Outliers, and Anomalies: Targeting Inconspicuous Occupational Events
New methodologies are needed to address multiple componentcy and short reuse episodes that are characteristic of mobile group residential and logistical strategies. Chronometric results are often misinterpreted when evaluated within a framework suited to long-term sedentary occupations. The standard practices of age-averaging, eliminating apparent 'anomalous' results, and relying on high profile diagnostic tools and vessels and the most visible f…
Nineteenth-century Apache wickiups: Historically Documented Models for Archaeological Signatures of the Dwellings of Mobile People
Highly mobile people must have sheltered in structures of some kind; but these are notoriously difficult to find. The author uses nineteenth-century photographs of an occupied Apache settlement to show how such shelters may have been made, comparing them with their archaeological remains in the present day. This suggests a 'signature' for the temporary shelters used by mobile groups in any period
Distinctive Places, Suitable Spaces: Conceptualizing Mobile Group Occupational Duration and Landscape Use
Platform cache encampments: Implications for mobility strategies and the earliest ancestral Apaches
The Hormiguero site is a large mountainside Apache residential site in the Peloncillo Mountains of southern Arizona that lies in the heart of historically documented Chiricahua Apache territory. It represents an encampment at an important caching location, a category of residential site that has not been previously described archaeologically. Ethnographic data are enlisted to understand this unique type of Apache residential site and a previously…
Surfing Behind the Wave: A Counterpoint Discussion Relating to “A Ranchería in the Gran Apachería”
Innovative methodological and theoretical approaches are required to tackle the difficult problem of discovering and interpreting mobile group sites in the protohistoric Southwest. Traditional and outmoded practices that may be appropriate for study of sedentary peoples are not amenable to the study of mobile groups. I use a syndetic approach with the goal of extending the analysis and discussion further than any one source can go alone, by weavi…
Gateways for Athabascan Migration to the American Southwest
The earliest known dates (A.D. 1300s and 1400s) for ancestral Athabascans are found along the Rio Grande valley in the Southwest and in the bordering mountains of southern New Mexico and Arizona. This evidence suggests that there was at least one mountain or intermontane route into the Southwest, probably in addition to Plains routes. Still unanswered has been why the earliest Athabascan sites are located where they are and not in adjacent areas.…
Cycles of Renewal, Transportable Assets: Aspects of Ancestral Apache Housing
Ancestral Apachean groups in the mountainous American Southwest used huts or wickiups rather than tipis and so their habitation sites tend to defy recognition. The housing types used by these southernmost and westernmost ancestral Apache are much more subtle, variable, and blend into the mountainous terrain, unlike their later conical tipi counterparts in this area and on the Southern Plains. Elsewhere some of the correlates for these types of st…
A Syndetic Approach to Identification of the Historic Mission Site of San Cayetano del Tumacácori
Peripheral Considerations: Defining the Spatial and Physical Correlates of Storage Behavior in Hohokam Structures
A new approach for investigating the use and organization of intramural space provides insights into the nature and distribution of storage in Hohokam structures. Consideration of the spatial and physical manifestations of storage behavior provides evidence that specific areas in structures were consistently set aside for storage. Use-areas located in the periphery of structures and other locations reveal patterned evidence of storage in a wide r…
Geronimo’s Wickiup: Methological Considerations Regarding Mobile Group Hut Signatures
An Alternative View of Sedentary Period Hohokam Shell-Ornament Production
Analysis of unpublished house floor and fill data has revealed new information concerning the production and distribution of shell artifacts at the Hohokam site of Snaketown. In addition to presenting data on the frequency and distribution of shell in structures, the analysis identifies manufacturing loci and evaluates previous statements concerning craft production at the site. Implications for the organization of production and exchange during …
Finding Father Kino’s San Xavier del Wa: K
Defining the Jocome and Their “Gifts of Little Value
Many mobile hunter-gatherer-raiders were identified in what is now southern Arizona, New Mexico, and in northern Sonora and Chihuahua by Spanish chroniclers at and long after first contact. Despite their ubiquity, most have yet to be identified. The Jocome—a group that featured prominently in fifteenth- through eighteenth-century regional politics—were among these and until recently little has been known about them except for a few documentary re…
Mobile visitors to the Eastern Frontier Pueblos: An archaeological example from Tabirá
For some time archaeologists have sought evidence of interactions noted in Spanish documents between mobile groups and the Eastern Frontier Pueblos specifically at the Salinas Pueblos. Most effort has focused on the examination and excavation of the pueblos themselves, either under the assumption that visitors routinely lived within the pueblos or because evidence of mobile visitors around and outside the pueblo has not been forthcoming. Surveys …
Sanctioned Inequity and Accessibility Issues in the Grey Literature in the United States
Finding History in the Archaeological Record: The Upper Piman Settlement of Guevavi
Archaeological survey in the vicinity of Guevavi Mission in southern Arizona has found evidence of an Upper Piman settlement located near the mission. This site likely represents one of the aboriginal settlements of Guevavi documented in early historic records, perhaps one of the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century settlements occupied during the Jesuit presence in this region. The site is placed within an archaeological and historical c…
Armas de la Tierra: Unconventional Weaponry of the Coronado Expedition
Armas de la tierra, mentioned in the muster roll for the Coronado expedition, have remained an enigma. Coronado expedition sites in southern Arizona have yielded considerable evidence to address this research issue at three locales. These newly defined unconventional metal point types are thought to be the southern equivalent of sheet and short block copper points found in New Mexico and Texas, where these southern types are absent, and all repre…
A Multi-evidential Approach to Locating Chichilticale of the 1539-1542 Coronado Expedition
Chichilticale is a long-sought-after location on the Coronado expedition route in southeastern Arizona. It is referred to numerous times in documents, and various expedition members stayed there, making it potentially one of the most discoverable of the Coronado expedition camp sites. Nonetheless, it remained lost until recently when data from a variety of sources provided a basis to establish hypotheses that were then tested and retested until C…
A Muted Legacy: O’odham Encounters with the Coronado Expedition
San Xavier Del Wa: K’s Late-Eighteenth-Century Fortified Village Revealed in Early Imagery and Texts
Some of the earliest historical drawings and photographs provide a fragmentary look at a long-gone defensive village occupied by San Xavier del Bac’s O’odham residents. Together these images reveal the character of a village that had been lost to history. Having moved the village south sometime between 1772 and 1780, during the Franciscan period, the new Wa:k O’odham village took on a form that differed substantially from the traditional Sobaipur…
In the Trenches Around the Ivory Tower: Introduction to Black-and-White Issues About the Grey Literature
An Alternative View of Sedentary Period Hohokam Shell-Ornament Production
Analysis of unpublished house floor and fill data has revealed new information concerning the production and distribution of shell artifacts at the Hohokam site of Snaketown. In addition to presenting data on the frequency and distribution of shell in structures, the analysis identifies manufacturing loci and evaluates previous statements concerning craft production at the site. Implications for the organization of production and exchange during …
Peripheral Considerations: Defining the Spatial and Physical Correlates of Storage Behavior in Hohokam Structures
A new approach for investigating the use and organization of intramural space provides insights into the nature and distribution of storage in Hohokam structures. Consideration of the spatial and physical manifestations of storage behavior provides evidence that specific areas in structures were consistently set aside for storage. Use-areas located in the periphery of structures and other locations reveal patterned evidence of storage in a wide r…
Finding History in the Archaeological Record: The Upper Piman Settlement of Guevavi
Archaeological survey in the vicinity of Guevavi Mission in southern Arizona has found evidence of an Upper Piman settlement located near the mission. This site likely represents one of the aboriginal settlements of Guevavi documented in early historic records, perhaps one of the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century settlements occupied during the Jesuit presence in this region. The site is placed within an archaeological and historical c…
A Ranchería in the Gran Apachería: Evidence of Intercultural Interaction at the Cerro Rojo Site
A large multi-ethnic hilltop village site, or grand ranchería, in the Hueco Mountains of southern New Mexioc and southwest Texas provides evidence of intercultural interaction during the late 1700s and earlier. Occupied by the Apache and renegade segments of the local nomadic groups of Plains origin, this site, with its 275 features, conveys the state of affairs that confronted these groups, and at the same time tests the accuracy of certain aspe…
A Syndetic Approach to Identification of the Historic Mission Site of San Cayetano del Tumacácori
Surfing Behind the Wave: A Counterpoint Discussion Relating to “A Ranchería in the Gran Apachería”
Innovative methodological and theoretical approaches are required to tackle the difficult problem of discovering and interpreting mobile group sites in the protohistoric Southwest. Traditional and outmoded practices that may be appropriate for study of sedentary peoples are not amenable to the study of mobile groups. I use a syndetic approach with the goal of extending the analysis and discussion further than any one source can go alone, by weavi…
Distinctive Places, Suitable Spaces: Conceptualizing Mobile Group Occupational Duration and Landscape Use
Father Kino's “Neat Little House and Church” at Guevavi
Father Kino’s “Neat Little House and Church” at Guevavi Deni J. Seymour Background and Introduction Some fifteen years ago Seymour (1997; also see Seymour 1991a, 1991b, 1993a) reported on a Sobaípuri-O’odham habitation site situated near the standing but gradually melting adobe walls of the large San Miguel de Guevavi mission complex that was built in 1751 (Figure 1). It was suggested that this unassuming archaeological locus (AZ EE:9:132, ASM) m…
The Canutillo Complex: Evidence of Protohistoric Mobile Occupants in the Southern Southwest
Early Spanish documentary sources refer to a number of mobile groups in southern Arizona and southern New Mexico, including but not limited to the Jano, Jocome, Manso, and Suma. These groups have remained unidentified archaeologically, and their history is often conflated with that of ancestral Apachean groups. Investigations aimed at identifying and distinguishing the suite of mobile and semisedentary groups who occupied the southern Southwest h…
Nineteenth-century Apache wickiups: Historically Documented Models for Archaeological Signatures of the Dwellings of Mobile People
Highly mobile people must have sheltered in structures of some kind; but these are notoriously difficult to find. The author uses nineteenth-century photographs of an occupied Apache settlement to show how such shelters may have been made, comparing them with their archaeological remains in the present day. This suggests a 'signature' for the temporary shelters used by mobile groups in any period
In the Trenches Around the Ivory Tower: Introduction to Black-and-White Issues About the Grey Literature
Sanctioned Inequity and Accessibility Issues in the Grey Literature in the United States
Cycles of Renewal, Transportable Assets: Aspects of Ancestral Apache Housing
Ancestral Apachean groups in the mountainous American Southwest used huts or wickiups rather than tipis and so their habitation sites tend to defy recognition. The housing types used by these southernmost and westernmost ancestral Apache are much more subtle, variable, and blend into the mountainous terrain, unlike their later conical tipi counterparts in this area and on the Southern Plains. Elsewhere some of the correlates for these types of st…
Contextual Incongruities, Statistical Outliers, and Anomalies: Targeting Inconspicuous Occupational Events
New methodologies are needed to address multiple componentcy and short reuse episodes that are characteristic of mobile group residential and logistical strategies. Chronometric results are often misinterpreted when evaluated within a framework suited to long-term sedentary occupations. The standard practices of age-averaging, eliminating apparent 'anomalous' results, and relying on high profile diagnostic tools and vessels and the most visible f…
When Data Speak Back: Resolving Source Conflict in Apache Residential and Fire-Making Behavior
Gateways for Athabascan Migration to the American Southwest
The earliest known dates (A.D. 1300s and 1400s) for ancestral Athabascans are found along the Rio Grande valley in the Southwest and in the bordering mountains of southern New Mexico and Arizona. This evidence suggests that there was at least one mountain or intermontane route into the Southwest, probably in addition to Plains routes. Still unanswered has been why the earliest Athabascan sites are located where they are and not in adjacent areas.…
Geronimo’s Wickiup: Methological Considerations Regarding Mobile Group Hut Signatures
Platform cache encampments: Implications for mobility strategies and the earliest ancestral Apaches
The Hormiguero site is a large mountainside Apache residential site in the Peloncillo Mountains of southern Arizona that lies in the heart of historically documented Chiricahua Apache territory. It represents an encampment at an important caching location, a category of residential site that has not been previously described archaeologically. Ethnographic data are enlisted to understand this unique type of Apache residential site and a previously…
Emerging from Theoretical Anarchy in Anthropological Archaeology
Although the focus and underpinnings have adjusted through time, Americanist archaeology is founded on the notion that anthropology plays an important role in archaeology. Even now the nature of anthropological archaeology is transforming to incorporate modern developments and lessons from our predecessors. Anthropological archaeology remains vibrant, maintaining sensitivity to current trends and methodological, theoretical, and conceptual advanc…
Mobile visitors to the Eastern Frontier Pueblos: An archaeological example from Tabirá
For some time archaeologists have sought evidence of interactions noted in Spanish documents between mobile groups and the Eastern Frontier Pueblos specifically at the Salinas Pueblos. Most effort has focused on the examination and excavation of the pueblos themselves, either under the assumption that visitors routinely lived within the pueblos or because evidence of mobile visitors around and outside the pueblo has not been forthcoming. Surveys …
Defining the Jocome and Their “Gifts of Little Value
Many mobile hunter-gatherer-raiders were identified in what is now southern Arizona, New Mexico, and in northern Sonora and Chihuahua by Spanish chroniclers at and long after first contact. Despite their ubiquity, most have yet to be identified. The Jocome—a group that featured prominently in fifteenth- through eighteenth-century regional politics—were among these and until recently little has been known about them except for a few documentary re…
New Mexico and the Pimeria Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest
This volume focuses on two disciplinary divisions that also reflected administrative regions in Spanish Colonial times: New Mexico and the Pimeria Alta. Chapter 1, written by the editors, provides
Finding Father Kino’s San Xavier del Wa: K
San Xavier Del Wa: K’s Late-Eighteenth-Century Fortified Village Revealed in Early Imagery and Texts
Some of the earliest historical drawings and photographs provide a fragmentary look at a long-gone defensive village occupied by San Xavier del Bac’s O’odham residents. Together these images reveal the character of a village that had been lost to history. Having moved the village south sometime between 1772 and 1780, during the Franciscan period, the new Wa:k O’odham village took on a form that differed substantially from the traditional Sobaipur…
Making Ways: Historical Insights into Accommodation and Resiliency
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