The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains

Douglas B. Bamforth

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Douglas B. Bamforth, University of Colorado Boulder

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: November 2021
Print publication year:: 2021
Online ISBN:: 9781139029728
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139029728

Subjects:: Prehistory, Archaeology of The Americas, Area Studies, Archaeological Theory and Methods, American Studies, Asian Studies, Archaeology
Series:: Cambridge World Archaeology

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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.

‘… a comprehensive study of the region’s archaeology … Recommended’

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The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains
pp i-ii

Cambridge World Archaeology - Series page
pp iii-iv

The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains - Title page
pp v-v

Copyright page
pp vi-vi

Dedication
pp vii-viii

Contents
pp ix-ix

Figures
pp x-xv

Tables
pp xvi-xvi

Acknowledgments
pp xvii-xviii

Chapter 1 - Introduction
pp 1-18

Chapter 2 - Where and What Are the Great Plains?
pp 19-35

Chapter 3 - Peopling the Continent, Peopling the Plains:
pp 36-68

Chapter 4 - Paleoindian Hunters (and Gatherers):
pp 69-101

Chapter 5 - Diversity, Environmental Change, and External Connection:
pp 102-151

Chapter 6 - Mounds, Pots, Pipes, and Bison:
pp 152-194

Chapter 7 - The Context of Maize Farming on the Great Plains
pp 195-217

Chapter 8 - Settled Farmers and Their Neighbors, Part 1:
pp 218-261

Chapter 9 - Settled Farmers and Their Neighbors Continued:
pp 262-311

Chapter 10 - The Plains Village Period, Part 3:
pp 312-340

Chapter 11 - One Promise Kept:
pp 341-385

Chapter 12 - Afterword
pp 386-392

References
pp 393-434

Index
pp 435-440

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