The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains (Hardcover)

In this volume, Douglas B. Bamforth offers an archaeological overview of the Great Plains, the vast, open grassland bordered by forests and mountain ranges situated in the heart of North America. Synthesizing a century of scholarship and new archaeological evidence, he focuses on changes in resource use, continental trade connections, social formations, and warfare over a period of 15,000 years. Bamforth investigates how foragers harvested the grasslands more intensively over time, ultimately turning to maize farming, and examines the persistence of industrial mobile bison hunters in much of the region as farmers lived in communities ranging from hamlets to towns with thousands of occupants. He also explores how social groups formed and changed, migrations of peoples in and out of the Plains, and the conflicts that occurred over time and space. Significantly, Bamforth's volume demonstrates how archaeology can be used as the basis for telling long-term, problem-oriented human history.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge World Archaeology
Release date:	September 2021
Authors:	Douglas B. Bamforth
Dimensions:	260 x 185 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	350
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-87346-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Prehistoric archaeology Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-521-87346-0
Barcode:	9780521873468

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