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  3. The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains
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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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Book description

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.

Reviews

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

L. L. Johnson Source: Choice Connect

‘[A] well written and nicely illustrated guide to the human history of the Great Plains, and indeed to North America as a whole. … It is an invaluable resource for archaeologists and students and can be informative to laypeople interested in the archaeological record and human history of the Plains. … Bamforth’s work is a good template for other scholars who are considering writing comprehensive archaeological overviews of physiographic regions anywhere in the world.’

Rolfe D. Mandel Source: Great Plains Research

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