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Aspects of Ancestral Apache Housing

Bibliographic Data

ID9216591
AuthorsD J Seymour (0000-0003-1626-6797, Digital Heritage Netherlands, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume55
Issue214
Pages133-152
Publication date2010-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePlains Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1179/pan.2010.004
OpenAlexW2321607688
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited37

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 structure have been discussed but here some of the reasons for this difference are explained from a Southwestern perspective, including factors that relate to distinctions in household size, the focus of household activities, the purposeful nature of constructed space, approach to selection of place, and the nature of movement in versus through a region. Other differences between tipi and wickiup use can be explained by a number of practical factors that relate to terrain, resource availability, climate, and proximity to and nature of interaction with neighboring groups. Comparisons are made between the heart of the mountainous Southwest, the fringe, and the adjacent plains

Archaeology · Cartography · Genealogy · Geography · Perspective (graphical) · Physical geography · Space (punctuation) · Terrain · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Mathematics

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