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The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Where and What Are the Great Plains?
- Chapter 3 Peopling the Continent, Peopling the Plains: Pre-Clovis to 10,800 BC
- Chapter 4 Paleoindian Hunters (and Gatherers): 10,800 to 6900 BC
- Chapter 5 Diversity, Environmental Change, and External Connection: The Plains Archaic, 6900 BC to 600 BC
- Chapter 6 Mounds, Pots, Pipes, and Bison: The Plains Woodland Period, 600 BC to AD 950
- Chapter 7 The Context of Maize Farming on the Great Plains
- Chapter 8 Settled Farmers and Their Neighbors, Part 1: The Early Plains Village Period, AD 950 to 1250
- Chapter 9 Settled Farmers and Their Neighbors Continued: The Plains Village Period Part 2, AD 1250 to AD 1400
- Chapter 10 The Plains Village Period, Part 3: Fifteenth-Century Transformations
- Chapter 11 One Promise Kept: The Colonial Era, AD 1500 to the Twentieth Century
- Chapter 12 Afterword
- References
- Index
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