gram of survey and excavation of caves, pithouses, and masonry structures, Steward helped institu... more gram of survey and excavation of caves, pithouses, and masonry structures, Steward helped institute archaeology in Utah and was a pioneer in addressing major research problems involving Archaic, Fremont, and Puebloan groups. Several chapters suggest revisions to Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups, Steward's major Great Basin study, citing potential instances of greater environmental richness and resource reliability in some regions of the Great Basin than Steward thought. Pronghorn antelope populations might have been larger in precontact times and therefore more reliably hunted than Steward figured. Similarly, it is argued that salmon and bison in Idaho would have engendered larger social groupings (Steward discounted the reliability of these resources). Recent studies in Death Valley show Steward's field ethnography to have been generally accurate and detailed, given his short visits, but his ethnographic-present assumption tended to compress or ignore history.
gram of survey and excavation of caves, pithouses, and masonry structures, Steward helped institu... more gram of survey and excavation of caves, pithouses, and masonry structures, Steward helped institute archaeology in Utah and was a pioneer in addressing major research problems involving Archaic, Fremont, and Puebloan groups. Several chapters suggest revisions to Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups, Steward's major Great Basin study, citing potential instances of greater environmental richness and resource reliability in some regions of the Great Basin than Steward thought. Pronghorn antelope populations might have been larger in precontact times and therefore more reliably hunted than Steward figured. Similarly, it is argued that salmon and bison in Idaho would have engendered larger social groupings (Steward discounted the reliability of these resources). Recent studies in Death Valley show Steward's field ethnography to have been generally accurate and detailed, given his short visits, but his ethnographic-present assumption tended to compress or ignore history.
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