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The Patayan wikipedia project page as created November 8th, 2005, by WBardin. The last citation added to the page was November 18, 2019, by Internet Archive Bot.

 Culture and Art 

Pottery:

Patayan pottery has been known to be classified into two distinct manufactures: “Lowland Patayan” pottery and “Upland Patayan” pottery. “Lowland Patayan” is related to the manufacturers of Lower Colorado Buff Ware, and “Upland Patayan” is related to the manufacturers of Tizon Brown Ware in southern California, Lower California, and northwestern Arizona. These classifications indicate the close cultural interrelationships of the populations manufacturing these two ceramic wares. Lower Colorado Buff Ware was manufactured by the River Yuman tribes and by the Shoshonean Chemehuevi. Tizon Brown Ware was made by the Shoshonean Cahuilla, CupeEio, and Luiseño, as well as by upland Yuman tribes.

Lowland Patayan Ceramic Tradition encompasses a variety of ceramic classifications. Due to a multitude of similarities in manufacture, vessel form, and surface treatment of this pottery, these ceramics have been classified as Yuman pottery, Lower Colorado Buff Ware, Lower Colorado River Buff Ware, and Colorado River Ware. There have been a plethora of difficulties in creating a firm typology/classification system for these ceramics due to its complex history. Historic Lowland Patayan pottery cannot be attributed to any one cultural, ethnic, tribal, or linguistic group; to avoid equating this ceramic technology and tradition with a single cultural group or linguistic family, Lowland Patayan Ceramic Tradition is the traditionally adopted terminology used to discuss ceramics and pottery found across Baja California and parts of Colorado.

Patayan Lifeways:

The Patayan tradition is often divided into three phases. Patayan I (AD 700–1050) witnessed the arrival of pottery-using agricultural communities along the Colorado River. During Patayan II (1050–1500), this material culture spread outward to southern Nevada, western Arizona, and to the Salton Sea. Patayan III (1500–1900) saw the coalescence of large populations near the confluence of the Gila and Colorado Rivers and the continued movement of people up the lower Gila River.