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041			_aENG
082			_a978.00497 _bBAM
100			_aBamforth, Douglas B.
245		4	_aThe Archaeology Of The North American Great Plains / _cDouglas B. Bamforth
250			_a1st edition
260			_bCambridge, _c2021. _aNewYork:
300			_axviii,439 pages
500			_aIn this volume, Douglas 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"-- Provided by publisher.Includes bibliographical references and index.
650			_aAntiquities Excavations (Archaeology) Excavations (Archaeology) Great Plains Fouilles (Archéologie) Grandes Plaines Grandes Plaines Antiquités Great Plains Great Plains Antiquities
942			_cENG
999			_c130391 _d130391