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People in a Sea of Grass

Name: People in a Sea of Grass
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
SKU: 9781647690205
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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESSISBN: 9781647690205

Archaeology's Changing Perspective on Indigenous Plains Communities

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Edited by Matthew E. Hill, Lauren W. Ritterbush
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
Release Date: June 29, 2022
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 254 x 178 mm
Weight: 300 g
Pages: 224

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Ninety years ago Great Plains archaeologists such as Waldo Wedel and William Duncan Strong made foundational contributions to American archaeology, enabling new discoveries, insights, and interpretations. This volume explores how twenty-first-century archaeologists have built upon, remodeled, and sometimes rejected the inferences of these earlier scholars with updated overviews and analyses. Contributors highlight how Indigenous Plains groups participated in large-scale social networks in which ideas, symbols, artifacts, and people moved across North America over the last 2,000 years. They also discuss cultural transformation, focusing on key demographic, economic, social, and ceremonial factors associated with change, including colonization and integration into the social and political economies of transatlantic societies. Cultural traditions covered include Woodland-era Kansas City Hopewell, late prehistoric Central Plains tradition, and ancestral and early historic Wichita, Pawnee and Arikara, Kanza, Plains Apache, and Puebloan migrants. As the first review of Plains archaeology in more than a decade, this book brings studies of early Indigenous peoples of the central and southern Plains into a new era.

Matthew E. Hill Jr. is associate professor of anthropology at University of Iowa. His research focuses on issues of human-environmental interactions of Native peoples in the Great Plains. Lauren W. Ritterbush is professor of anthropology at Kansas State University. Her research focuses on indigenous and migrant farming and hunting societies in the central and northern Great Plains.

"Each chapter reviews previous research and provides fresh interpretations or new data and methodologies. The contributors are all top-notch scholars in southern and central Great Plains archaeology. This is a strong volume that will be a clear contribution to Plains archaeology." --Rob Bozell, Nebraska State Archeologist "This volume grew out of a symposium honoring Waldo Wedel and is the first regional review of Plains archaeology in over 20 years. Wedel and his contemporaries established the theoretical foundations for modern Plains archaeology. The contributors critically examine our current understanding of the archaeology of the Great Plains using sites and interpretations that focus on Wedel's major contributions. This book is a welcome addition to Plains archaeology." --Joseph A. Tiffany, professor emeritus, Department of Archaeology, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

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