The Sedentary Horizon of the Northern Plains

Lehmer, Donald J.

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“…It is bordered on the west by the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and on the east by what archaeologists refer to culturally and geographically as the Central Plains. The archaeologically-defmed Central Plains tradition dates to approximately A.D. 1000-1350 and is part of a larger regional horticultural pattern -the Plains Village pattern -that dominated the Northern and Central Plains between A.D. 900 and 1886 (Lehmer 1954;Wood 1998: 653). These Plains inhabitants lived in earthlodge houses in semi-settled agricultural communities during an interval that spanned prehistoric and historical time periods.…”

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Bison Economies on the Late Prehistoric North American High Plains

Scheiber¹

2007

Journal of Field Archaeology

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This paper explores variability in Late Prehistoric bison faunal assemblages from sites in western I(ansas) NE Colorado) and central Nebraska (A.D. 1000-1350). Relationships among occupants of these sites have been a topic of debate for decades) and archaeologists have typically relied on ceramic typologies as a means of separating people)places) and phases. The resulting segregation of sitesfrom different river drainages) however; makes it difficult to assessLate Prehistoric economic variability among related groups who exploited a range of natural environments. As we move away from classificatory and descriptive discus- sions of artifact assemblages and into considerations ofpast lived experiences) we may reexamine economic variability in the context offood choice)animal habitat) and shifting migrations of Plains farmers. This study ispart of a lar;gerproject to establish baseline patterns of bison consumption and use through time among Late Prehistoric and Historical occupants of the North American High Plains. Zooarchaeological methods employed by archaeologistsfocused on farming communities often differ from methods employed by archaeologists trained on hunter-gatherer bonebeds. In order tofacilitate comparisons and to speak to a wider audience about the interactions between hunter-gatherers and farmersand the intersections between hunting and gathering and farming) I ar;guefor broader methodological researchprotocols that transcend the Plains and are applicable for studying animal use among a variety of middle-range societies.

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Section: Late Prehistoric Subsistence and Economic Variability On Thementioning

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Bison Economies on the Late Prehistoric North American High Plains

Scheiber¹

2007

Journal of Field Archaeology

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Donald Jayne Lehmer, 1918-1975

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1976

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Phantoms in the Pinyon: An Investigation Of UTE-Pueblo Contacts

Kayser¹

1965

Mem. Soc. Am. Archaeol.

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Despite Fewkes's reports of 1909 and 1916 that a legend of a battle with the Anasazi was obtained from the Utes, such knowledge was denied by all Southern Utes queried in 1963. Their matter-of-fact acceptance of a common identity between the ruins builders and the modern Pueblo peoples, together with evidence from Spanish documents, led to the hypothesis that the Utes have had a long, unbroken (if somewhat peripheral), and for the most part nonviolent contact with the Anasazi-Pueblo. Spanish records also suggest that eastern Utes in early historic times had become quite unlike their more closely studied Great Basin relatives, and that as participants in the general plains culture they had further contact with the Pueblos and the Spanish. Evidence that an Athapascan intrusion successfully blocked Ute-Pueblo contact seems far from conclusive.

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The Sedentary Horizon of the Northern Plains

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Bison Economies on the Late Prehistoric North American High Plains

Bison Economies on the Late Prehistoric North American High Plains

Donald Jayne Lehmer, 1918-1975

Phantoms in the Pinyon: An Investigation Of UTE-Pueblo Contacts

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