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

"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...

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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : University Press of Colorado,, [2018]
©[2018]
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Other title:What do we know about warfare on the Great Plains? /
Northwestern Plains contact-era warfare as reflected in ethnohistory and rock art studies /
Warriors and weapons : late prehistoric and protohistoric period warfare in Bear Gulch rock art /
Coup counts and corn caches : contact-era Plains Indian accounts of warfare /
Rotten palisade posts and rickety baffle gates : fortifying native eastern North America /
Ditches or earthworks : a reexamination of fortified villages on the Upper Missouri River /
Why fortify : force-to-force ratios and fortification on the Southern Plains /
Digging ditches : archaeological investigations of historically reported fortifications at Bryson-Paddock (34KA5) and other southern Plains village sites /
The Alcova Redoubt : a refuge fortification in central Wyoming /
Conflict and culture change on the Plains : the Oneota example /
Modeling Middle Missouri warfare /
Alliances, clusters, and spatial analysis : a multiscalar approach to studying warfare in the Middle Missouri /
The Crow Creek massacre : the role of sex in Native American scalping practices /
Contexts for conflict : conceptual tools for interpreting archaeological reflections of the North Platte campaign of February 1865 /
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.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1607328593
1607326701
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Andrew J. Clark and Douglas B. Bamforth.