Archaeological perspectives on warfare on the Great Plains / edited by Andrew J. Clark and Douglas B. Bamforth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, Andrew J. (Archaeologist), editor.

Bamforth, Douglas B., editor.

Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Indians of North America.

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

Excavations (Archaeology).

Indians of North America--Warfare.

Great Plains.

Antiquities.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Great Plains.

Indians of North America--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

vii, 439 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2018]

Summary:

"Anthropologists from across the Plains critically examine regional themes of warfare from pre-Contact and post-Contact periods and assess how war shaped and reflected human societies on the Plains. Brings together research from across the region, provides unprecedented evidence of the effects of war on tribal societies"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

What do we know about warfare on the Great Plains? / Douglas B. Bamforth

Northwestern Plains contact-era warfare as reflected in ethnohistory and rock art studies / Mavis Greer and John Greer

Warriors and weapons : late prehistoric/protohistoric

period warfare in Bear Gulch rock art / James D. Keyser

Coup counts and corn caches : contact-era Plains Indian accounts of warfare / Linea Sundstrom

Rotten palisade posts and rickety baffle gates : fortifying native eastern North America / David H. Dye

Ditches or earthworks : a reexamination of fortified villages on the Upper Missouri River / Albert M. LeBeau, III

Why fortify : force-to-force ratios and fortification on the Southern Plains / Susan C. Vehik

Digging ditches : archaeological investigations of historically reported fortifications at Bryson-Paddock (34KA5) and other southern Plains village sites / Richard R. Drass, Stephen M. Perkins, and Susan C. Vehik

The Alcova Redoubt : a refuge fortification in central Wyoming / Bryon Schroeder

Conflict and culture change on the Plains : the Oneota example / R. Eric Hollinger

Modeling Middle Missouri warfare / Mark D. Mitchell

Alliances, clusters, and spatial analysis : a multiscalar approach to studying warfare in the Middle Missouri / Andrew J. Clark

The Crow Creek massacre : the role of sex in Native American scalping practices / Ashley Kendell

Contexts for conflict : conceptual tools for interpreting archaeological reflections of the North Platte campaign of February 1865 / Peter Bleed and Douglas Scott

Afterword: war, peace, and plains archaeology / Douglas B. Bamforth and Andrew J. Clark.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-422) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

ISBN:

9781607326694

1607326698

OCLC:

994206116

Publisher Number:

40028301321

99977258529