Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Andrew.
Other Authors: Bamforth, Douglas.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University Press of Colorado, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
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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.