Author: Waldo Rudolph WedelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Environment and Native Subsistence Economies in the Central Great Plains
Author: Waldo Rudolph WedelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Environment and native subsistence economies in the central Great Plains
Author: Waldo Rudolph WedelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human beings
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Environment and Native Subsistence Economies in the Central Great Plains
Author: Waldo Rudolph WedelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Human beings
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Ecology and Human Organization on the Great Plains
Author: Douglas B. BamforthPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489920617
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Archaeology on the Great Plains
Author: W. Raymond WoodPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700610006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to central Canada, North America's great interior grasslands were home to nomadic hunters and semisedentary farmers for almost 11,500 years before the arrival of Euro-American settlers. Pan-continental trade between these hunters and horticulturists helped make the lifeways of Plains Indians among the richest and most colorful of Native Americans. This volume is the first attempt to synthesize current knowledge on the cultural history of the Great Plains since Wedel's Prehistoric Man on the Great Plains became the standard reference on the subject almost forty years ago. Fourteen authors have undertaken the task of examining archaeological phenomena through time and by region to present a systematic overview of the region's human history. Focusing on habitat and cultural diversity and on the changing archaeological record, they reconstruct how people responded to the varying environment, climate, and biota of the grasslands to acquire the resources they needed to survive. The contributors have analyzed archaeological artifacts and other evidence to present a systematic overview of human history in each of the five key Plains regions: Southern, Central, Middle Missouri, Northeastern, and Northwestern. They review the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Woodland, and Plains Village peoples and tell how their cultural traditions have continued from ancient to modern times. Each essay covers technology, diet, settlement, and adaptive patterns to give readers an understanding of the differences and similarities among groups. The story of Plains peoples is brought into historical focus by showing the impacts of Euro-American contact, notably acquisition of the horse and exposure to new diseases. Featuring 85 maps and illustrations, Archaeology on the Great Plains is an exceptional introduction to the field for students and an indispensable reference for specialists. It enhances our understanding of how the Plains shaped the adaptive strategies of peoples through time and fosters a greater appreciation for their cultures.
Beyond Subsistence
Author: Philip DukePublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817307990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A series of essays, written by Plains scholars of diverse research interests and backgrounds, that apply postprocessual approaches to the solution of current problems in Plains archaeology Postprocessual archaeology is seen as a potential vehicle for integrating culture-historical, processual, and postmodernist approaches to solve specific archaeological problems. The contributors address specific interpretive problems in all the major regions of the North American Plains, investigate different Plains societies (including hunter-gatherers and farmers and their associated archaeological records), and examine the political content of archaeology in such fields as gender studies and cultural resource management. They avoid a programmatic adherence to a single paradigm, arguing instead that a mature archaeology will use different theories, methods, and techniques to solve specific empirical problems. By avoiding excessive infatuation with the correct scientific method, this volume addresses questions that have often been categorized as beyond archaeological investigations.
The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains
Author: Douglas B. BamforthPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521873460
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
This book uses archaeology to tell 15,000 years of history of the indigenous people of the North American Great Plains.
eries in the Social Sciences: A-233
Author: The Way to the West
Author: Elliott WestPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826316530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Elegantly assembles the environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Great Plains in the 19th century.
Geoarchaeology in the Great Plains
Author: Rolfe D. MandelPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806132617
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Geoarchaeology is the application of geoscience to the study of archaeological deposits and the archaeological record. Employing techniques from pedology, geomorphology, sedimentology, geochronology, and stratigraphy, geoarchaeologists investigate and interpret sediments, soils and landforms at the focal points of archaeological research. Edited by Rolfe D. Mandel and with contributions by John Albanese, Joe Allen Artz, E. Arthur Bettis III, C. Reid Ferring, Vance T. Holliday, David W. May, and Mandel, this volume traces the history of all major projects, researchers, theoretical developments, and sites contributing to our geoarchaeological knowledge of North America's Great Plains. The book provides a historical overview and explores theoretical questions that confront geoarchaeologists working in the Great Plains, where North American geoarchaeology emerged as a discipline.