Islands on the Plains : ecological, social, and ritual use of landscapes /
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| Imprint: | Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2003. |
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| Description: | xiii, 331 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4965778 |
Table of Contents:
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1.. Biogeographical Islands and Ecological Patches: Seeing the Great Plains from the Inside Out
- Part I.. Playa Basins as Islands
- 2.. The Playas of the Southern High Plains: An Archipelago of Human Occupation for 12,000 Years on the North American Grasslands
- 3.. Prehistoric Utilization of Patch Environments and Culture Change in Colorado's Central High Plains
- Part II.. Linear Islands: Streams and Canyons
- 4.. Catchment Basins as Islands in West-Central Oklahoma: Farra Canyon
- 5.. The Western Niobrara River: An Inter-Island Passage on the Plains
- Part III.. Upland Islands
- 6.. Pull of the Hills: Technological Structures Around Biogeographical Islands
- 7.. Investigations in the Bridger Mountain Range, Montana: A Backyard Archaeology Project
- 8.. Environmental and Cultural Variation in the Nebraska Sand Hills
- Part IV.. Ecological Modeling and Resource Patches
- 9.. "Places Where They Kill Deer": Moisture Islands, Winter Climate, and Ungulate Ecology in the Northwestern Great Plains
- 10.. Islands of Geophytes: Sego Lily and Wild Onion Patch Density in a High Plains Habitat
- Part V.. Sacred and Social Islands
- 11.. Social Islands in the Denver Basin
- 12.. Sacred Islands: An Exploration of Religion and Landscape in the Northern Great Plains
- Part VI.. Present and Future of Plains Islands Research
- 13.. Islands and Patches in the Plains
- Contributors
- Index
