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Archaeological landscapes on the High Plains / edited by Laura L. Scheiber and Bonnie J. Clark. - Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, ©2008. - 1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages) : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Illustrations; Tables; 1 A Sloping Land: An Introduction to Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains; 2 Intersecting Landscapes in Northeastern Colorado: A Case Study from the Donovan Site; 3 Making Places: Burned Rock Middens, Feasting, and Changing Land Use in the Upper Arkansas River Basin; 4 Ritual Landscapes, Population, and Changing Sense of Place during the Late Prehistoric Transition in Eastern Colorado; 5 Landscapes and Peoples of the Llano Estacado; 6 The Details of Home: Landscape Continuity in the High Plains. 7 Purgatorio, Purgatoire, or Picketwire: Negotiating Local, National, and Transnational Identities along the Purgatoire River in Nineteenth-Century Colorado8 The Behavior of Surface Artifacts: Building a Landscape Taphonomy on the High Plains; 9 Prehistoric Settlement Patterns on the High Plains of Western Nebraska and the Use of Geographic Information Systems for Landscape Analyses; 10 Places in the Heartland: Landscape Archaeology on the Plains; About the Contributors; Index.

ISBN: 9780870819889 (electronic bk.) 0870819887 (electronic bk.) 0870819313 (hbk. ; alk. paper) 9780870819315 (hbk. ; alk. paper) (hbk. ; alk. paper)

Source: 22573/ctt45qgdz JSTOR

LCCN: 2008029530

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC158911 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 020153708 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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--Antiquities.--High Plains (U.S.)
Human ecology--History.--High Plains (U.S.)
Fouilles (Archéologie)--Hautes Plaines (États-Unis)
Lieux historiques--Hautes Plaines (États-Unis)
Archéologie du paysage--Hautes Plaines (États-Unis)
Archéologie et histoire--Hautes Plaines (États-Unis)
Archéologie sociale--Hautes Plaines (États-Unis)
HISTORY--State & Local.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.
Antiquities.
Archaeology and history.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Historic sites.
Human ecology.
Indians of North America--Antiquities.
Landscape archaeology.
Social archaeology.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
High Plains (U.S.)--History, Local.
High Plains (U.S.)--Antiquities.
Hautes Plaines (États-Unis)--Histoire locale.
United States--High Plains.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
Local history.

LC Class. No.: F590.7 / .A73 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 978/.01072