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strangely dependent on rainfall for the well-being of many of its human
citizens. As for western Pimeria Alta, vast reaches once walked over by
Pimans are today totally uninhabited save for an occasional hunter or rock
collector or desert sightseer bounding along in his four-wheel drive vehicle.
Only Ajo, because of a copper mine, and Puerto Pefiasco, because of commercial fishing and the attraction of the Gulf of California to Arizona residents, now stand where no permanent settlements stood before.
The final lesson of which we need be reminded is that modern Homo
sapiens has neither conquered nor cooperated with his desert environment.
He has "adapted" to it, unlike his Piman forebears, only by importing a
whole economy and technology based on material goods that are native
to environments elsewhere in the world. This is a fact whose implications
need to be better understood if we are to cope with man's present and
future in arid lands.
REFERENCES
Adolph, E. F. (1947). "Physiology of Man in the Desert." Wiley (Interscience),
New York.
Aschmann, H. (1959). The central desert of Baja California. Ibero-Americana
42.
Bell, W. H., and Castetter, E. F. (1937). The aboriginal utilization of tall cacti
in the American Southwest. Univ. N. Mex. Bull., 307, Biol. Ser. Vol. 5, No. 1;
Ethnobiol. Stud. Amer. S.W. 4.
Benson, L. (1950). "The Cacti of Arizona." Univ. of New Mexico Press,
Albuquerque.
Benson, L., and Darrow, R. A. (1944). A manual of southwestern desert trees
and shrubs. Univ. Ariz. Bull. 15, 2; Biol. Sei. Bull 6.
Bolton, H. E., transi, and ed. (1930). "Anza's California Expeditions," 5 vols.
Univ. of California Press, Berkeley.
Bolton, H. E., transi, and ed. (1948). "Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimeria Alta,"
2 vols, in 1. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.
Bolton, H. E. (1960). "Rim of Christendom." Russell & Russell, New York.
Brand, D. D. (1936). Notes to accompany a vegetation map of Northwest Mexico.
Univ. N. Mex. Bull. 280, Biol. Ser. Vol. 4, No. 4.
Brown, G. W., Jr., ed. (1968). "Desert Biology." Academic Press, New York.
Bryan, K. (1922). Erosion and sedimentation in the Papago country, Arizona.
U.S., Geol. Surv., Bull 730, 19-90.
Bryan, K. (1925). The Papago country, Arizona. U.S., Geol. Surv., Water-Supply
Pap. 499.
Castetter, E. F., and Bell, W. H. (1942). "Pima and Papago Indian Agriculture."
Univ. of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Castetter, E. F., and Bell, W. H. (1951). "Yuman Indian Agriculture." Univ. of
New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Castetter, E. F., and Underhill, R. M. (1935). The ethnobiology of the Papago
Indians. U. N. Mex. Bull. 275, Biol. Ser. Vol. 4, No. 3; Ethnobiol. Stud. Amer.
S.W. 2.
Childs, T. (1954). Sketch of the "Sand Indians." Kiva 19 (2-4), 27-39.
BERNARD L FONTANA
strangely dependent on rainfall for the well-being of many of its human
citizens. As for western Pimeria Alta, vast reaches once walked over by
Pimans are today totally uninhabited save for an occasional hunter or rock
collector or desert sightseer bounding along in his four-wheel drive vehicle.
Only Ajo, because of a copper mine, and Puerto Pefiasco, because of commercial fishing and the attraction of the Gulf of California to Arizona residents, now stand where no permanent settlements stood before.
The final lesson of which we need be reminded is that modern Homo
sapiens has neither conquered nor cooperated with his desert environment.
He has "adapted" to it, unlike his Piman forebears, only by importing a
whole economy and technology based on material goods that are native
to environments elsewhere in the world. This is a fact whose implications
need to be better understood if we are to cope with man's present and
future in arid lands.
REFERENCES
Adolph, E. F. (1947). "Physiology of Man in the Desert." Wiley (Interscience),
New York.
Aschmann, H. (1959). The central desert of Baja California. Ibero-Americana
42.
Bell, W. H., and Castetter, E. F. (1937). The aboriginal utilization of tall cacti
in the American Southwest. Univ. N. Mex. Bull., 307, Biol. Ser. Vol. 5, No. 1;
Ethnobiol. Stud. Amer. S.W. 4.
Benson, L. (1950). "The Cacti of Arizona." Univ. of New Mexico Press,
Albuquerque.
Benson, L., and Darrow, R. A. (1944). A manual of southwestern desert trees
and shrubs. Univ. Ariz. Bull. 15, 2; Biol. Sei. Bull 6.
Bolton, H. E., transi, and ed. (1930). "Anza's California Expeditions," 5 vols.
Univ. of California Press, Berkeley.
Bolton, H. E., transi, and ed. (1948). "Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimeria Alta,"
2 vols, in 1. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.
Bolton, H. E. (1960). "Rim of Christendom." Russell & Russell, New York.
Brand, D. D. (1936). Notes to accompany a vegetation map of Northwest Mexico.
Univ. N. Mex. Bull. 280, Biol. Ser. Vol. 4, No. 4.
Brown, G. W., Jr., ed. (1968). "Desert Biology." Academic Press, New York.
Bryan, K. (1922). Erosion and sedimentation in the Papago country, Arizona.
U.S., Geol. Surv., Bull 730, 19-90.
Bryan, K. (1925). The Papago country, Arizona. U.S., Geol. Surv., Water-Supply
Pap. 499.
Castetter, E. F., and Bell, W. H. (1942). "Pima and Papago Indian Agriculture."
Univ. of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Castetter, E. F., and Bell, W. H. (1951). "Yuman Indian Agriculture." Univ. of
New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.
Castetter, E. F., and Underhill, R. M. (1935). The ethnobiology of the Papago
Indians. U. N. Mex. Bull. 275, Biol. Ser. Vol. 4, No. 3; Ethnobiol. Stud. Amer.
S.W. 2.
Childs, T. (1954). Sketch of the "Sand Indians." Kiva 19 (2-4), 27-39.