Archaeological landscapes on the High Plains /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2008.
Description:	xiii, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	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. Antiquities. Archaeology and history. Excavations (Archaeology) Historic sites. Human ecology. Indians of North America -- Antiquities. Landscape archaeology. Social archaeology. High Plains (U.S.) -- History, Local. High Plains (U.S.) -- Antiquities. United States -- High Plains. History. Local history.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7472852

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Other authors / contributors:	Scheiber, Laura L. Clark, Bonnie J.
ISBN:	9780870819315 (alk. paper) 0870819313 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Chapter 1. A Sloping Land: An Introduction to Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains
Chapter 2. Intersecting Landscapes in Northeastern Colorado: A Case Study from the Donovan Site
Chapter 3. Making Places: Burned Rock Middens, Feasting, and Changing Land Use in the Upper Arkansas River Basin
Chapter 4. Ritual Landscapes, Population, and Changing Sense of Place during the Late Prehistoric Transition in Eastern Colorado
Chapter 5. Landscapes and Peoples of the Llano Estacado
Chapter 6. The Details of Home: Landscape Continuity in the High Plains
Chapter 7. Purgatorio, Purgatoire, or Picketwire: Negotiating Local, National, and Transnational Identities along the Purgatoire River in Nineteenth-Century Colorado
Chapter 8. The Behavior of Surface Artifacts: Building a Landscape Taphonomy on the High Plains
Chapter 9. Prehistoric Settlement Patterns on the High Plains of Western Nebraska and the Use of Geographic Information Systems for Landscape Analyses
Chapter 10. Places in the Heartland: Landscape Archaeology on the Plains
About the Contributors
Index

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