Pre-European cultural relationships between the Plains and Southwest regions.
Citation
Blasing, Robert. (1981). Pre-European cultural relationships between the Plains and Southwest regions.. -- Lambda Alpha Journal of Man, v.13, p.7-34.
Abstract
Paper
discusses Plains-Southwest interactions and relationships.
Utilizing both archeological and ethnographic
evidence, author provides useful information ranging
from the Paleo-Indian to the Historic Period for
Plains-Southwest contact. Positing migration, either
group or individually, trade, diffusion by simple contact,
warfare and competition and population pressure
as causal factors, author delineates available evidence
and general trends and changes through time. He concludes
that "the boundary between the Southwest and the
Plains would seem to have been both cultural and geographic"
which resulted in a dichotomy between the
Plains and the Southwest.