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Crafting History in the Northern Plains
The histories of post-1500 American Indian and First Nations societies reflect a dynamic interplay of forces. Europeans introduced new technologies, new economic systems, and new social forms, but those novelties were appropriated, resisted, modified, or ignored according to indigenous meanings, relationships, and practices that originated long before Europeans came to the Americas. A comprehensive understanding of the changes colonialism wrought must therefore be rooted in trans-Columbian native histories that span the centuries before and after the advent of the colonists. In Crafting History in the Northern Plains Mark D. Mitchell illustrates the crucial role archaeological methods and ar...
Encounters at the Heart of the World
This Pulitzer Prize–winning work pieces together the lost history of the Mandan Native Americans and their thriving society on the Upper Missouri River. The Mandan people's bustling towns in present-day North Dakota were at the center of the North American universe for centuries. Yet their history has been nearly forgotten, maintained in fragmentary documents and the journals of white visitors such as Lewis and Clark. In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn pieces together those fragments along with important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. The result is a bold new perspective on early American history, a new ...
The Living Museum
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Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Midcontinental and Eastern United States
ÒThis is an important new reference work for the professional archaeologist as well as the student and collector.Ó ÑCentral States Archaeological Journal ÒJustice . . . admirably synthesizes the scientific information integrating it with the popular approach. The result is a publication that readers on both sides of the spectrum should enjoy as well as comprehend.Ó ÑChoice Ò. . . an indispensable guide to the literature. Attractive layout, design, and printing accent the useful text. . . . it should remain the standard reference on point typology of the midwest and eastern United States for many years to come.Ó ÑPennsylvania Archaeologist Archaeologists and amateur collectors alike ...
Stone Tools and Mobility in the Illinois Valley
This study aims to compile a unified set of lithic analyses for the prehistory of the area, to compare the components with one another with respect to parameters on which stone tools are relevant and to provide new interpretations of North American prehistoric hunter-gatherer mobility organisation and sedentism.
Kansas Archaeology
Synthesizes what is known about the cultural (human) history of Kansas from 10,000 B.C. to the nineteenth century. This significant contribution to Plains archaeology provides the reader with the first comprehensive overview of the subject in nearly fifty years.
