Description
Book SynopsisIllustrates the different ways that the spatial, structural, and temporal nature of islands conditioned the behaviour and adaptation of past Plains peoples. This as a first step toward a more detailed analysis of habitat variation and its effects on Plains cultural dynamics and evolution.
Table of Contents
- Biogeographical Islands and Ecological Patches: Seeing Great Plains from Inside-Out: Alan J. Osborn and Marcel Kornfeld
- The Playas of the Southern High Plains: An Archipelago of Human Occupation for the Past 12,000 Years in 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. Brunswig, Jr.
- 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 Archaeological Project: David A. Byers, John W. Fisher, Jr., and Walter Alen
- Environmental and Cultural Variation in the Sand Hills Region: John R. Bozell and Amy Koch
- Places Where They Kill Deer: Moisture Islands, Winter Climate, and Ungulate Ecology in the Northwestern Great Plains: Alan J. Osborn
- 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 Religions and Landscape in the Great Plains: Linea Sundstrom
- Islands and Patches in the Plains: Susan C. Vehik
