Download or read book Current Trends in Southern Plains Archaeology written by Timothy G. Baugh and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southern Plains Archaeology written by Susan C. Vehik and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Clovis to Comanchero written by Jack L. Hofman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeology on the Great Plains written by W. Raymond Wood and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1998-07-29 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Archaeology on the Great Plains written by W. Raymond Wood and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This synthesis of Great Plains archaeology brings together what is currently known about the inhabitants of the ancient Plains. The essays review the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Woodland, and Plains Village peoples, providing information on technology, diet, settlement and adaptive patterns.
Download or read book The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains written by Douglas B. Bamforth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses archaeology to tell 15,000 years of history of the indigenous people of the North American Great Plains.
Download or read book Ecology and Human Organization on the Great Plains written by Douglas B. Bamforth and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains written by Vance T. Holliday and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern High Plains of northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico are rich in Paleoindian archaeological sites, including such well-known ones as Clovis, Lubbock Lake, Plainview, and Midland. These sites have been extensively researched over decades, not only by archaeologists but also by geoscientists, whose studies of soils and stratigraphy have yielded important information about cultural chronology and paleoenvironments across the region. In this book, Vance T. Holliday synthesizes the data from these earlier studies with his own recent research to offer the most current and comprehensive overview of the geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains during the earliest human occupation. He delves into twenty sites in depth, integrating new and old data on site geomorphology, stratigraphy, soils, geochronology, and paleoenvironments. He also compares the Southern High Plains sites with other sites across the Great Plains, for a broader chronological and paleoenvironmental perspective. With over ninety photographs, maps, cross sections, diagrams, and artifact drawings, this book will be essential reading for geoarchaeologists, archaeologists, and Quaternary geoscientists, as well as avocational archaeologists who take part in Paleoindian site study throughout the American West.
Download or read book Archaeology of the High Plains written by James H. Gunnerson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digging Up Texas written by Robert Marcom and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a guided tour of more than 15,000 years of life in Texas Mr. Marcom has authored a volume that makes the incredibly diverse archaeological record of Texas accessible to interested laypersons and beginning avocational archaeologists.
Download or read book The Central Plains Tradition written by Donald J. Blakeslee and published by University of Iowa, Publications Department. This book was released on 1978 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains written by Douglas B. Bamforth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Douglas B. Bamforth offers an archaeological overview of the Great Plains, the vast, open grassland bordered by forests and mountain ranges situated in the heart of North America. Synthesizing a century of scholarship and new archaeological evidence, he focuses on changes in resource use, continental trade connections, social formations, and warfare over a period of 15,000 years. Bamforth investigates how foragers harvested the grasslands more intensively over time, ultimately turning to maize farming, and examines the persistence of industrial mobile bison hunters in much of the region as farmers lived in communities ranging from hamlets to towns with thousands of occupants. He also explores how social groups formed and changed, migrations of peoples in and out of the Plains, and the conflicts that occurred over time and space. Significantly, Bamforth's volume demonstrates how archaeology can be used as the basis for telling long-term, problem-oriented human history.
Download or read book People in a Sea of Grass written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culture Change on the Eastern Margins of the Southern Plains written by Richard Drass and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prehistoric Grinding Landscapes of the Southern Plains written by Elizabeth Marie Dreyer-Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prehistoric inhabitants of southeastern Colorado constructed permanent milling spaces on exposed bedrock outcrops and sandstone boulders in rockshelters and protective overhangs. These bedrock milling spaces are well-known and wide spread throughout the region, but very little is known about them. In many archaeological narratives and descriptions constructed milling features are simply noted as bedrock mortars or bedrock mutates and go unrecorded. Where they exist on the Southern Plains, stationary milling surfaces (most commonly referred to as bedrock mortars, metates, or slicks) are rarely considered to be a significant part of the cultural configuration derived from archaeology. The stationary milling sites are hard to date and their function is difficult to establish as no ethnographic context exists; as a result they become "isolates" that are left out of the overall picture of an archaeological culture--other than to say that people ground things there. Throughout North America prehistoric peoples created and maintained permanent milling facilities amid resource procurement landscapes or near homes and villages. Distinct from portable milling artifacts by their permanence and formally constructed environment, stationary milling areas offer a unique opportunity to understand how prehistoric peoples socialized their traditional landscapes and created spaces that reinforced social values and cultural knowledge. Formally constructed stationary milling features occur within household and village settings and facilitate social food processing that may include groups of grinders working together or supporting each other's labor, mothers with young children, or communal groups of grinders and their extended kinship groups. Ethnographic and archaeological evidence for bedrock ground stone features elsewhere in North America indicate that fixed milling sites were created for a number of purposes, ranging from communal production of food resources for household consumption, to staple foods ritually processed for culturally significant occasions such as puberty ceremonies or harvest festivals. An important aspect of bedrock acorn milling features from California is the social significance of the space within which collective labor was organized and cultural knowledge was conveyed between generations along with the social expectations and sense of self. The preferential use of bedrock milling spaces for processing food resources in California crossed cultural and linguistic boundaries reflecting a common reliance on a similar staple food resources (acorns) and a preferred mechanism (communal food processing) for ensuring the transmission of social and cultural values and norms of the group. Bedrock milling spaces in southeastern Colorado have the potential to provide insight into regional social spaces and prehistoric landscape use. Although resistant to direct dating, archaeological remains in close association with bedrock milling features suggest an extended period of use from the Archaic (3000 to 1850 B.P.) to the Late Prehistoric (1850 to 500 B.P.), during which time hunter-gatherers lived in small band-level groups and made extensive use of the abundant food resources in the canyonlands. Through time local populations increased and the use of canyons became more extensive, habitations shifted from rockshelters to the upper canyon rims. To concentrate on the organization and distribution of social milling spaces, this dissertation employs an intensive, landscape approach to canyon survey. A stratified terrace survey provides a landscape driven construction of bedrock milling spaces. This dissertation focuses on the design and organization of bedrock milling surfaces, the differences and similarities between features and the placement of in one tributary canyon (1 km2). Standard ground stone recording methods are enhanced to record bedrock features in the field and new techniques are used to analyze and interpret data, such as the use of sub-features to group related ground stone surfaces on features. Dissertation results support the hypothesis that bedrock ground stone features are constructed, built environments that are similar to architectural features acting as a focal point for human activity. The results show differences between bedrock grinding features: some were committed food processing features while others were probably tool production locales. This dissertation documents difference in feature construction and surface distribution throughout the canyon. Bedrock ground stone spaces represent conceptual and ideational landscapes. The features are localized expressions of milling activity that included family level involvement to extended family involvement. As a focal point for social interaction, the features were hubs of social networking, reproduction of cultural norms and values, and fundamental places at which individuals learned and managed their social identity.
Download or read book Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains written by Andrew Clark and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Plains has been central to academic and popular visions of Native American warfare, largely because the region’s well-documented violence was so central to the expansion of Euroamerican settlement. However, social violence has deep roots on the Plains beyond this post-Contact perception, and these roots have not been systematically examined through archaeology before. War was part, and perhaps an important part, of the process of ethnogenesis that helped to define tribal societies in the region, and it affected many other aspects of human lives there. In Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains, anthropologists who study sites across the Plains critically examine regional themes of warfare from pre-Contact and post-Contact periods and assess how war shaped human societies of the region. Contributors to this volume offer a bird’s-eye view of warfare on the Great Plains, consider artistic evidence of the role of war in the lives of indigenous hunter-gatherers on the Plains prior to and during the period of Euroamerican expansion, provide archaeological discussions of fortification design and its implications, and offer archaeological and other information on the larger implications of war in human history. Bringing together research from across the region, this volume provides unprecedented evidence of the effects of war on tribal societies. Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains is a valuable primer for regional warfare studies and the archaeology of the Great Plains as a whole. Contributors: Peter Bleed, Richard R. Drass, David H. Dye, John Greer, Mavis Greer, Eric Hollinger, Ashley Kendell, James D. Keyser, Albert M. LeBeau III, Mark D. Mitchell, Stephen M. Perkins, Bryon Schroeder, Douglas Scott, Linea Sundstrom, Susan C. Vehik
