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Selected Library Books: Archaeology of the Great Plains

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The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains [E-RESOURCE] by Douglas B. Bamforth 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.
Publication Date: 2021
Imagining Head-Smashed-In : Aboriginal buffalo hunting on the northern Plains [E-book & Print]
Call Number: UofL Main Collection E 78 G73 B66 2008
Publication Date: 2008
The Cypress Hills Massacre
Call Number: UofL Main Collection FC 3217.9 C96 C96 2015
Publication Date: 2015
Human Ecology of the Canadian Prairie Ecozone 11,000 to 300 BP
Call Number: UofL Main Collection GF 512 P7 H86 2011
Publication Date: 2011
Light from Ancient Campfires: Archaeological evidence for Native lifeways on the northern plains [E-Book & Print]
Call Number: UofL Main Collection E 78 A34 P43 2010
Publication Date: 2011
Understanding Stone Tools and Archaeological Sites [E-Book & Print] by Brian P. Kooyman
Call Number: UofL Main Collection GN 799 T6 K659 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains
Call Number: UofL Main Collection F 590.7 A73 2008
Publication Date: 2009
Beyond Subsistence : Plains Archaeology and the Postprocessual Critique [E-Book]
Publication Date: 2010
Stone by stone : exploring ancient sites on the Canadian plains [E-Book]
Publication Date: 2010
Old Man's Playing Ground : gaming and trade on the plains/plateau frontier [E-Book]
Publication Date: 2014

Selected Books: Early North American History

Selected early North American History-related book titles.

From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: human organization and cultural transformations in prehistoric North America [E-Book]
Publication Date: 2012
Settlement Ecology of the Ancient Americas [E-Book]
Publication Date: 2016
A History of the Native People of Canada, 10,000-1,000 B. C. This is the first of three volumes on the history of the Native people of Canada as revealed by archaeological evidence. Over 12,000 years of Native history preceded the arrival of Europeans. This first volume begins with the spread of Ice Age hunters out of a land mass called Beringia that once joined Asia and North America. Most of the country was covered by glacial ice, and extinct animals such as mammoth and sabre toothed cats occupied the tundra and lichen woodlands. People of this first and subsequent migrations from Asia gradually adapted to the rapidly changing environment. Eventually, distinct cultures occupied all of Canadas major environmental zones. Volumes two and three span the periods from 1,000 B.C. to A.D. 500 and A.D. 500 to European contact, respectively. It is hoped that these volumes will make a contribution towards a greater appreciation of Native history prior to the devastating events initiated by the European occupation of Canada.
Call Number: UofL Main Collection E 78 C2 W9335 1995
Publication Date: 1996

Archaeology of the Great Plains Subject Headings

Archaeological Survey of Alberta Publications

Archaeological Survey of Alberta Occasional Papers [Free Online]
Established in 1976 as a means of disseminating information to archaeological specialists in Alberta. The series included annual reviews of projects carried out within the Province, edited thematic volumes, and monographs.
Archaeological Survey of Alberta Manuscript Series [Free Online]
Disseminate information to archaeological specialists in Alberta by featuring monograph-length reports about large scale archaeological projects undertaken in Alberta.

Books: Archaeology of the Great Plains [Free Online]

A Guide to Saskatchewan Archaeology (2012)
Brief introduction to archaeology in the Province of Saskatchewan.

Digitized Books: General Sources [Free Online]

Internet Archive - Ebook and Texts Archive [Free Online]
Free historical texts and academic books.
HathiTrust
Google Books [Partial Full-text]
Keyword search content of many "current" books; some out-of-copyright items available full-text.

Archaeology -- Great Plains Region: Books & e-Books

Selected Library Books: Archaeology of the Great Plains

Selected Books: Early North American History

Archaeology of the Great Plains Subject Headings

Archaeological Survey of Alberta Publications

Books: Archaeology of the Great Plains [Free Online]

Digitized Books: General Sources [Free Online]

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