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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809653203321

Titolo

Archaeological landscapes on the High Plains / / edited by Laura L. Scheiber and Bonnie J. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colo., : University Press of Colorado, c2008

ISBN

0-87081-988-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ScheiberLaura L

ClarkBonnie J

Disciplina

978/.01072

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - High Plains (U.S.)

Historic sites - High Plains (U.S.)

Landscape archaeology - High Plains (U.S.)

Archaeology and history - High Plains (U.S.)

Social archaeology - High Plains (U.S.)

Indians of North America - High Plains (U.S.) - Antiquities

Human ecology - High Plains (U.S.) - History

High Plains (U.S.) History, Local

High Plains (U.S.) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Tables; 1 A Sloping Land: An Introduction to Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains; 2 Intersecting Landscapes in Northeastern Colorado: A Case Study from the Donovan Site; 3 Making Places: Burned Rock Middens, Feasting, and Changing Land Use in the Upper Arkansas River Basin; 4 Ritual Landscapes, Population, and Changing Sense of Place during the Late Prehistoric Transition in Eastern Colorado; 5 Landscapes and Peoples of the Llano Estacado; 6 The Details of Home: Landscape Continuity in the High Plains

7 Purgatorio, Purgatoire, or Picketwire: Negotiating Local, National, and Transnational Identities along the Purgatoire River in Nineteenth-Century Colorado 8 The Behavior of Surface Artifacts: Building a Landscape Taphonomy on the High Plains; 9 Prehistoric Settlement Patterns on the High Plains of Western Nebraska and the Use of



Geographic Information Systems for Landscape Analyses; 10 Places in the Heartland: Landscape Archaeology on the Plains; About the Contributors; Index