"This book provides the first and only comprehensive survey of
armor, shields, and fortifications [of American Indians]. . . . It
has left me with a new appreciation for the sheer diversity of
warfare, armor, and fortifications used by Native Americans, and it
shatters stereotypes about the nature of aboriginal warfare." --
Wayne Van Horne, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Kennesaw
State University
From the Chickasaw fighting the Choctaw in the Southeast to the
Sioux battling the Cheyenne on the Great Plains, warfare was
endemic among the North American Indians when Europeans first
arrived on this continent. An impressive array of offensive
weaponry and battle tactics gave rise to an equally impressive
range of defensive technology. Native Americans constructed very
effective armor and shields using wood, bone, and leather. Their
fortifications ranged from simple refuges to walled and moated
stockades to multiple stockades linked in strategic defensive
networks.
In this book, David E. Jones offers the first systematic
comparative study of the defensive armor and fortifications of
aboriginal Native Americans. Drawing data from ethnohistorical
accounts and archaeological evidence, he surveys the use of armor,
shields, and fortifications both before European contact and during
the historic period by American Indians from the Southeast to the
Northwest Coast, from the Northeast Woodlands to the desert
Southwest, and from the Sub-Arctic to the Great Plains. Jones also
demonstrates the sociocultural factors that affected warfare and
shaped the development of different types of armor and
fortifications. Extensive eyewitness descriptions of warfare,
armor, and fortifications, aswell as photos and sketches of Indian
armor from museum collections, add a visual dimension to the
text.
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