Plains earthlodges : ethnographic and archaeological perspectives / edited by Donna C. Roper and Elizabeth P. Pauls.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roper, Donna C.

Pauls, Elizabeth P., 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Dwellings--Great Plains.

Indians of North America.

Earth houses--Great Plains--History.

Earth houses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Plains earth lodges

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A survey of Native American earthlodge research from across the Great Plains. Early explorers initially believed the earthlodge homes of Plains village peoples were made entirely of earth. Actually, however, earthlodges are timber-frame structures, with the frame covered by successive layers of willows, grass, and earth, and with a tunnel-like entryway and a smoke hole in the center of the roof. The products of nearly a millennium of engineering development, historic period lodges were massively built. With diameters up to 60 feet across, they comprise the largest and

Contents:

Contents; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Preface; A Note on Plains Village Taxonomy and Chronology; 1. What, Where, and When Is an Earthlodge?; 2. Confounding Stereotypes: Building an Earthlodge for Fun and Edification; 3. Architecture as a Source of Cultural Conservation: Gendered Social, Economic, and Ritual Practices Associated with Hidatsa Earthlodges; 4. From Earthlodge to Medicine Lodge? Probable Cheyenne Origins of the Sun Dance; 5. Middle Ceramic Period Earthlodges as the Products of Craft Traditions

6. Earthlodge Dynamics 101: Construction and Deterioration Issues and Their Lessons for Archaeologists7. This Old Earthlodge Village: How Long Were Sites of the Middle Missouri Tradition Occupied?; 8. Geophysical Signatures of Earthlodges in the Dakotas; 9. Future Directions for Earthlodge Research; References Cited; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-222) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8424-3

OCLC:

652626199