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The Archaeological Delineation of a Cultural Boundary in Papagueria*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Paul H. Ezell
Paul H. Ezell*
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Arizona State MuseumTucson, Ariz.
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The area dealt with in this report is that portion of northwestern Sonora and southwestern Arizona bounded on the southwest by the Gulf of California, on the west by the Colorado River valley below the junction of the Gila River, on the north by the Gila River valley, and on the east by an imaginary line from the vicinity of Gila Bend south along the western edge of the Papago Reservation and thence southwest to the mouth of the Sonoyta River on the Gulf of California (Fig. 106). Within this area Sauer has suggested a boundary between the Piman-speaking people of southern Arizona and northern Sonora, and the Yuman-speaking tribes of the lower Colorado and Gila River valleys, based on linguistic affiliations described in early historical sources (Sauer 1934, map). On archaeological evidence Gifford has suggested that the locality between Punta La Cholla and the mouth of the Sonoyta River represented a point on an ethnic boundary (Gifford 1946: 221).

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American Antiquity , Volume 20 , Issue 4Part1 , April 1955 , pp. 367 - 374
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1955

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This paper was presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Tucson, Arizona, December 28-30, 1953. I am indebted to E. W. Haury, E. W. Gifford, Henry F. Dobyns, Albert H. Schroeder, and Michael J. Harner for critical reading and suggestions.

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