The Deer Creek site : an eighteenth-century fortified Wichita village on the American Southern Great Plains / Sarah Trabert, Stephen M. Perkins, Susan C. Vehik, Richard R. Drass, and Sheila Bobalik Savage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trabert, Sarah J., author.

Perkins, Stephen M., author.

Vehik, Susan C., author.

Drass, Richard, author.

Bobalik Savage, Sheila, author.

Series:

BAR international series ; 3176.

BAR international series ; 3176

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wichita Indians--Antiquities.

Wichita Indians.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Oklahoma--Deer Creek.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Deer Creek (Okla.)--Antiquities.

Deer Creek (Okla.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 142 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

The Deer Creek site (34KA3), located next to the Arkansas River in the Southern Plains of the U.S., served as a crucial hub for exchange and interaction during the 18th century between ancestral Wichita peoples and French traders from Louisiana. In 2016, an agreement was reached with the current site managers and the Wichita and Affiliated tribes so that the professional excavations could be carried out. This monograph presents the findings of recent research conducted at the site, employing a combination of remote sensing and archaeological methods. Unlike the northern Plains where entire villages were fortified, southern Plains villages contained fortified refuges within their settlements. These fortifications and their associated features are examined, along with DNA analysis of horse and dog remains, European guns and other trade goods, and analyses of ancestral Wichita materialculture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781407361468

1407361465

OCLC:

1452339557

Publisher Number:

CIPO000114690