JSTOR

Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains,

Year

2018

Publisher

University Press of Colorado

Language

English

Pages

35

ISBN

978-1-60732-669-4

Link

Last Update

03-Sep-2024

Keywords

Sociology ; Archaeology

Description

The archaeology of the Great Plains provides some of the clearest and most dramatic archaeological documentation of warfare anywhere in the world: there has been violence on the grasslands for millennia, and there is no doubt that this affected many aspects of human lives in the region. This volume brings together work on major aspects of Plains warfare that have important implications for studies of warfare in general. The topics we consider here include artistic evidence of the role of war in the lives of indigenous hunter-gatherers on the Plains prior to and during the period of Euroamerican expansion, archaeological...

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