Research Catalog

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, [2003]
• ©2003

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kornfeld, Marcel
• Osborn, Alan J.
• Plains Anthropological Conference (1996 : Iowa City, Iowa)

Description

xiii, 331 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Summary

• "Scattered throughout the Great Plains are many isolated areas of varying size and ecology, quite distinct from the surrounding grasslands. Such spaces can be uplands like the Black Hills, low hills like the Nebraska Sand Hills, or linear areas such as shallow river valleys and deeply incised canyons. While the notion of "islands" is not a new one among ecologists, its application in Plains archaeology is."
• "The contributors to this volume illustrate the different ways that the spatial, structural, and temporal nature of islands conditioned the behavior and adaptation of past Plains peoples. This is a first step toward a more detailed analysis of habitat variation and its effects on Plains cultural dynamics and evolution. Although the emphasis is on ecology, several chapters also address social and ideological islands in the form of sacred sites and special hunting grounds."--Jacket.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Great Plains > Antiquities > Congresses
• Human geography > Great Plains > Congresses
• Island ecology > Great Plains > Congresses
• Peuples autochtones > Grandes Plaines > Antiquités > Congrès
• Écologie des îles > Grandes Plaines > Congrès
• Antiquities
• Human geography
• Indians of North America > Antiquities
• Island ecology
• Great Plains > Antiquities > Congresses
• Grandes Plaines > Antiquités > Congrès
• Great Plains

Genre/Form

• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• "Most of the chapters in this book were first presented at the 1996 Plains Anthropological Conference in Iowa City, Iowa"--Page xiii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780874807608
• 0874807603
• 9780874808445
• 0874808448
• 9781607816676 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2003006426

OCLC

• 51931344
• SCSB-11165567

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library