Archaeological Perspectives of Warfare on the Great Plains
The Great Plains of the United States have played an influential role in shaping academic and popular visions of Native American warfare, largely because of the well-documented violence that was so central to the expansion of Euroamerican settlement there. However, violence has deep roots on the Pla...
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Format | eBook |
Language | English |
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United States
University Press of Colorado
2018
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Edition | 1 |
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Summary: | The Great Plains of the United States have played an influential role in shaping academic and popular visions of Native American warfare, largely because of the well-documented violence that was so central to the expansion of Euroamerican settlement there. However, violence has deep roots on the Plains, and these roots have never been examined systematically across the region as a whole. Covering the Plains as well as some adjacent areas and spanning both pre-Contact and post-Contact periods, this volume explores a series of central topics that are important regionally and to the larger study of warfare in general. The editors provide an overview of the evidence for violence in the region as a whole, but contributors focus particularly on three important and interrelated topics: what fortifications tell us about war, what representations of war in art tell us about combatants’ views of war, and how war shaped and reflected human societies on the Plains. |
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Bibliography: | MODID-7d11f768189:University Press of Colorado MODID-aeccfb6e7e0:KU Select 2017: Front list Collection MODID-00000000488:Knowledge Unlatched Relevant Wikipedia pages: Fortification - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortification; Great Plains - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plains; Palisade - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisade; Prehistory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistory; Rock art - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_art |
ISBN: | 9781607326700 1607326701 1607326698 9781607326694 |
DOI: | 10.5876/9781607326700 |