Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains.

• Author: Clark, Andrew.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bamforth, Douglas.
• Place / Publishing House: Chicago : : University Press of Colorado,, 2018.; Ã2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (449 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Part 1. Introduction -- 1. What Do We Know about Warfare on the Great Plains? / Douglas B. Bamforth -- Part 2. Emic Views: Warfare in Plains Rock Art -- 2. Northwestern Plains Contact-Era Warfare as Reflected in Ethnohistory and Rock Art Studies / Mavis Greer and John Greer -- 3. Warriors and Weapons: Late Prehistoric/Protohistoric-Period Warfare in Bear Gulch Rock Art / James D. Keyser -- 4. Coup Counts and Corn Caches: Contact-Era Plains Indian Accounts of Warfare / Linea Sundstrom -- Part 3. Fortifications as Evidence for Violence -- 5. Rotten Palisade Posts and Rickety Baffle Gates: Repairing Native Eastern North American Fortifications / David H. Dye -- 6. Ditches or Earthworks: A Reexamination of Fortified Villages on the Upper Missouri River / Albert M. LeBeau III -- 7. Why Fortify? Force-to-Force Ratios and Fortification on the Southern Plains / Susan C. Vehik -- 8. 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 -- 9. The Alcova Redoubt: A Refuge Fortification in Central Wyoming / Bryon Schroeder -- Part 4. Warfare in Society and Plains History -- 10. Conflict and Culture Change on the Plains: The Oneota Example / R. Eric Hollinger -- 11. Modeling Middle Missouri Warfare / Mark D. Mitchell -- 12. Alliances, Clusters, and Spatial Analysis: A Multiscalar Approach to Studying Warfare in the Middle Missouri / Andrew J. Clark -- 13. The Crow Creek Massacre: The Role of Sex in Native American Scalping Practices / Ashley Kendell -- 14. Contexts for Conflict: Conceptual Tools for Interpreting Archaeological Reflections of the North Platte Campaign of February 1865 / Peter Bleed and Douglas Scott.

15. Afterword: War, Peace, and Plains Archaeology / Douglas B. Bamforth and Andrew J. Clark -- References Cited -- List of Contributors -- Index.