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Islands on the Plains : ecological, social, and ritual use of landscapes
- Title
- Islands on the Plains : ecological, social, and ritual use of landscapes / edited by Marcel Kornfeld and Alan J. Osborn.
- Publication
- Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2003.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xiii, 331 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- "Most of the chapters in this book were first presented at the 1996 Plains Anthropological Conference in Iowa City, Iowa"--Acknowledgments.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Biogeographical islands and ecological patches: seeing the Great Plains from the inside out / Alan J. Osborn and Marcel Kornfeld -- The Playas of the southern high plains: an archipelago of human occupation for 12,000 years on the North American grasslands / Luc Litwinionek, Eileen Johnson, and Vance T. Holliday -- Prehistoric utilization of patch environments and culture change in Colorado's central high plains / Robert H. Brunswing -- Catchment basins as islands in west-central Oklahoma: Farra Canyon / William E. Banks -- The western Niobrara River: an inter-island passage on the plains / George H. MacDonell and LuAnn Wandsnider -- Pull of the hills: technological structures around biogeographical islands / Marcel Kornfeld -- Investigations in the Bridger Mountain Range, Montana: a backyard archaeology project / David A. Byers, Walter Allen, and John W. Fisher, Jr. -- Environmental and cultural variation in the Nebraska Sand Hills / Amy Koch and John R. Bozell -- 'Places where they kill deer': moisture islands, winter climate, and ungulate ecology in the northwestern Great Plains / Alan J. Osborn -- Islands of geophytes: sego lily and wild onion patch density in a high plains habitat / LuAnn Wandsnider and Yi-Shing Chung -- Social islands in the Denver Basin / Tammy Stone -- Sacred islands: an exploration of religion and landscape in the northern Great Plains / Linea Sundstrom -- Islands and patches in the plains / Susan C. Vehik.
- Call Number
- JGF 03-192
- ISBN
- 0874807603 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2003006426
- OCLC
- 51931344
- Title
- Islands on the Plains : ecological, social, and ritual use of landscapes / edited by Marcel Kornfeld and Alan J. Osborn.
- Imprint
- Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Kornfeld, Marcel.Osborn, Alan J.Plains Anthropological Conference (1996 : Iowa City, Iowa)
- Research Call Number
- JGF 03-192