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Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains
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Description for Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains
Hardcover. Editor(s): Scheiber, Laura L.; Clark, Bonnie J. Num Pages: 312 pages, 57 b/w photos & 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KB; HDD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 554.
Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains combines history, anthropology, archaeology, and geography to take a closer look at the relationships between land and people in this unique North American region.Focusing on long-term change, this book considers ethnographic literature, archaeological evidence, and environmental data spanning thousands of years of human presence to understand human perception and construction of landscape. The contributors offer cohesive and synthetic studies emphasizing hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers. Using landscape as both reality and metaphor, Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains explores the different and changing ways that people interacted with place in this transitional zone between ... Read more
Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains combines history, anthropology, archaeology, and geography to take a closer look at the relationships between land and people in this unique North American region.Focusing on long-term change, this book considers ethnographic literature, archaeological evidence, and environmental data spanning thousands of years of human presence to understand human perception and construction of landscape. The contributors offer cohesive and synthetic studies emphasizing hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers. Using landscape as both reality and metaphor, Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains explores the different and changing ways that people interacted with place in this transitional zone between ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University Press of Colorado United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Colorado, United States
ISBN
9780870819315
SKU
V9780870819315
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About
Bonnie J. Clark is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Denver. Laura L. Scheiber is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University.
Reviews for Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains
"Compared to other areas of North America, the High Plains has received little attention from archaeologists. Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains is a noteworthy contribution that focuses on an important place from many perspectives." —American Archaeology Magazine "All anthropologists and Plains scholars should have this book, especially geographers and historians, as well as biological and paleoenvironmental scientists. ... Read more