The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains

The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains
Author: Douglas B. Bamforth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2021-09-23
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 0521873460

This book uses archaeology to tell 15,000 years of history of the indigenous people of the North American Great Plains.

Archaeology on the Great Plains

Archaeology on the Great Plains
Author: W. Raymond Wood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

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.

Deep Time and the Texas High Plains

Deep Time and the Texas High Plains
Author: Paul H. Carlson
Publisher: Grover E. Murray Studies in th
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN:

"Surveys the history and geologic past of the Texas High Plains and upper Brazos River region by focusing on human activity and adaptation and on shifting environmental conditions and animal resources on the Llano Estacado and in Yellow House Draw, the site of the current Lubbock Lake Landmark"--Provided by publisher.

Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains

Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains
Author: George C. Frison
Publisher: Emerald Group Pub Limited
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1991
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780122685613

The Northwestern Plains is developing a unique and viable archeology, offering students choosing their future research topics in this exciting time a variety of possibilities. The entire area of the Northwestern Plains--mountains, foothills, and plains--has been a testing ground for human ingenuity. It provides an unusual opportunity to study more than 11,000 years of prehistroic hunting and gathering. Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains synthesizes what was a disparate body of data on the prehistory of the Northwestern Plains and presents it in rational and understandable terms. Key Features * Examines the prehistoric cultural chronology and the sources of the data for the Northwestern High Plains * Presents prehistoric hunting and gathering subsistence strategies for the Northwestern High Plains * Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of archaeology using the data from geology, soils, faunal analysis, pollen, and phytolith studies * Provides a methodology for data recovery

Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains

Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains
Author: Laura L. Scheiber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains combines history, anthropology, archaeology, and geography to take a closer look at the relationships between land and people in this unique North American region. Focusing on long-term change, this book considers ethnographic literature, archaeological evidence, and environmental data spanning thousands of years of human presence to understand human perception and construction of landscape. The contributors offer cohesive and synthetic studies emphasizing hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers. Using landscape as both reality and metaphor, Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains explores the different and changing ways that people interacted with place in this transitional zone between the Rocky Mountains and the eastern prairies. The contemporary archaeologists working in this small area have chosen diverse approaches to understand the past and its relationship to the present. Through these ten case studies, this variety is highlighted but leads to a common theme - that the High Plains contains important locales to which people, over generations or millennia, return. Providing both data and theory on a region that has not previously received much attention from archaeologists, especially compared with other regions in North America, this volume is a welcome addition to the literature. Contributors: o Paul Burnett o Oskar Burger o Minette C. Church o Philip Duke o Kevin Gilmore o Eileen Johnson o Mark D. Mitchell o Michael R. Peterson o Lawrence Todd

Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains

Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains
Author: George C. Frison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 480
Release: 1978
Genre: History
ISBN:

The Northwestern Plains is developing a unique and viable archeology, offering students choosing their future research topics in this exciting time a variety of possibilities. The entire area of the Northwestern Plains--mountains, foothills, and plains--has been a testing ground for human ingenuity. It provides an unusual opportunity to study more than 11,000 years of prehistroic hunting and gathering. Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains synthesizes what was a disparate body of data on the prehistory of the Northwestern Plains and presents it in rational and understandable terms. Key Features * Examines the prehistoric cultural chronology and the sources of the data for the Northwestern High Plains * Presents prehistoric hunting and gathering subsistence strategies for the Northwestern High Plains * Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of archaeology using the data from geology, soils, faunal analysis, pollen, and phytolith studies * Provides a methodology for data recovery