Islands on the Plains
Ecological, Social, and Ritual Use of Landscapes
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Product details:
- Publisher The University of Utah Press
- Date of Publication 15 April 2019
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780874808445
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages352 pages
- Size 254x178x30 mm
- Weight 720 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Illustrates the different ways that the spatial, structural, and temporal nature of islands conditioned the behaviour and adaptation of past Plains peoples. This as a first step toward a more detailed analysis of habitat variation and its effects on Plains cultural dynamics and evolution.
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"Scattered throughout the Great Plains are many isolated areas of varying size and ecology, quite distinct from the surrounding grasslands. Such spaces can be uplands like the Black Hills, low hills like the Nebraska Sand Hills, or linear areas such as shallow river valleys and deeply incised canyons. While the notion of """"islands"""" is not a new one among ecologists, its application in Plains archaeology is.
The contributors to this volume seek to illustrate the different ways that the spatial, structural, and temporal nature of islands conditioned the behavior and adaptation of past Plains peoples. This as a first step toward a more detailed analysis of habitat variation and its effects on Plains cultural dynamics and evolution. Although the emphasis is on ecology, several chapters also address social and ideological islands in the form of sacred sites and special hunting grounds."
Table of Contents:
- Biogeographical Islands and Ecological Patches: Seeing Great Plains from Inside-Out: Alan J. Osborn and Marcel Kornfeld
- The Playas of the Southern High Plains: An Archipelago of Human Occupation for the Past 12,000 Years in the North American Grasslands: Luc Litwinionek, Eileen Johnson, and Vance T. Holliday
- Prehistoric Utilization of Patch Environments and Culture Change in Colorado's Central High Plains: Robert H. Brunswig, Jr.
- Catchment Basins as Islands in West-Central Oklahoma: Farra Canyon: William E. Banks
- The Western Niobrara River: An Inter-Island Passage on the Plains: George H. MacDonell and LuAnn Wandsnider
- Pull of the Hills: Technological Structures around Biogeographical Islands: Marcel Kornfeld
- Investigations in the Bridger Mountain Range, Montana: A Backyard Archaeological Project: David A. Byers, John W. Fisher, Jr., and Walter Alen
- Environmental and Cultural Variation in the Sand Hills Region: John R. Bozell and Amy Koch
- Places Where They Kill Deer: Moisture Islands, Winter Climate, and Ungulate Ecology in the Northwestern Great Plains: Alan J. Osborn
- Sego Lily and Wild Onion Patch Density in a High Plains Habitat: LuAnn Wandsnider and Yi-Shing Chung
- Social Islands in the Denver Basin: Tammy Stone
- Sacred Islands: An Exploration of Religions and Landscape in the Great Plains: Linea Sundstrom
- Islands and Patches in the Plains: Susan C. Vehik
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