Recently added articles from Plains Anthropologist:
Protohistory and the Wichita
Nov 01, 2008; ... In the 1960s scholars from across Oklahoma and Texas submitted an extensive final report to the National Science Foundation (Bell et al. Newcomb 1967). Labeling it a pilot study, they summarized archaeological and ethnohistorical investigations of protohistoric Wichita villages on either side of ...
Intertwined Legacies: The Wichita and Dr. Robert E. Bell
Nov 01, 2008; ... A Plains Anthropologist memoir devoted to studies of the Wichita people is something that Dr. Robert E. Bell would have supported wholeheart- edly. Regrettably, his death on New Year's Day of 2006 prevented him from writing this introductory statement. Hopefully, my memory of events and issues ...
The Anthropologies of Trade and Exchange: An Essay on Kirikir'i*s and Southern Plains Political Economy
Nov 01, 2008; ... The social history of the Kirikir'i.s peoples is dependent on traditional history, archaeology, ethnohistory, cultural anthropology, and linguistics. By using these different lines of evidence, this paper explores one of the primary models (Vehik's "conflict and prestige" model) used to explain ...
Interpreting Wichita Lifeways at the Cusp of Contact
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Lasley Vore site (34TU65), located 21 km south of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a protohistoric Wichita settlement aggregation that was thoroughly investigated in 1988. Although not as large as some late prehistoric settlements north of there, the author argues that Lasley Vore represents a ...
Wichita Locations and Population, 1719-1901
Nov 01, 2008; ... This paper traces the movements and population losses of the five main Wichita groups-Kichais, Tawakonis, Iscanis, Guichitas, and Taovayas-from 1719 when they first encountered Frenchmen to 1901 when the tribe was forced to give up reservation life. During this period the Wichita population ...
Protohistoric Bison Hunting in the Central Plains: A Study of Faunal Remains from the Crandall Site (14RC420)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Diet breadth and group formation models are employed to test hypotheses related to the subsistence practices of the inhabitants of the Crandall site, 14RC420. This small protohistoric habitation is affiliated with the Little River focus of the Great Bend aspect in central Kansas. Based on the ...
The Hide Trade and Wichita Social Organization: An Assessment of Ethnological Hypotheses Concerning Polygyny
Nov 01, 2008; ... Compared with late prehistoric archaeological sites attributed to the Wichita, protohistoric sites in Oklahoma contain artifact assemblages indicating that hide processing for trade with French voyageurs became a primary economic activity. Yet aside from assemblage changes, little is understood ...
The Stone Site: A Waco Indian Village Frozen in Time
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Stone site (41ML38), referred to as "El Quiscat's Village" by Frenchman turned Spanish explorer, Athanase de Mézières, is located on the horseshoe bend of the Brazos River, north of present day Waco. It is the last remaining of several documented Waco Indian village sites in the area from ...
European Trade Goods on the Southern Plains: The Bryson-Paddock (34KA5) and Deer Creek (34KA3) Sites
Nov 01, 2008; ... The early contact period on the southern Plains (ca. A.D. 1541-1700) is marked by the arrival of Europeans as well as an increased interaction between existing Native American tribes. Native contact with French traders during this time resulted in a greater presence of European trade goods ...
THE LOWER WALNUT SETTLEMENT AND ITS CERAMICS
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Lower Walnut Settlement is a loose cluster of sites located in the lower Walnut River valley of south-central Kansas. The sites are dominated by late precontact deposits, dating from ca A.D. 1350 to 1750, though some sites do have earlier components. This paper reviews the history of ...
Bison and Box Turtles: Faunal Remains from The Lower Walnut Settlement
Nov 01, 2008; ... This study examines a sample of animal bone recovered from features at the Lower Walnut settlement on the Walnut and Arkansas River drainage. Bison and box turtles make up the largest proportion of identified specimens, followed by deer, canids, fur bearing mammals, a variety of birds, small ...
Mapping an Eighteenth-Century Wichita Village Site
Nov 01, 2008; ... Originally located in a Cross Timbers/short grass prairie ecotone on the Brazos River in central Texas, the Stone site (41ML38), the archaeological site of the late eighteenth-century Wichita (Tawakoni) village of Quiscat's band, was investigated by Baylor University between 1999 and 2002. A 10 ...
Wichita Inspirations: Virgil R. Swift
Nov 01, 2008; ... Born in Lawton, Oklahoma in 1947, Virgil Swift grew up in his grandparents' home along Sugar Creek, north of Anadarko, Oklahoma. He traces descent to the Tawakoni and Waco of the Wichita peoples and direct ancestry to the re- nowned Wichita leader Tawakoni Jim. Virgil at- tended Anadarko public ...
Some Wichita Recollections: Aspects of Culture Reflected in Language
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Wichita language belongs to the Caddoan linguistic family. In the late 1960s, I was privileged to study it with the help of Mrs. Bertha Provost. Among the texts collected as part of that effort is one in which Mrs. Provost and Mr. Houston Miller describe aspects of their traditional culture ...
Archaeological Geology of the Mescalero Sands, Southeastern New Mexico
Aug 01, 2008; ... The Mescalero Sands accumulated in two episodes, first during the late Pleistocene (90,000 to 75,000 years B.P.) and second during the early Holocene (9000 to 5000 years B.P.) based on OSL dates. Archaeological sites of all ages occur on the surface of the older eolian sand. Sites later than ...
Folsom Projectile Technology: An Experiment in Design, Effectiveness and Efficiency
Aug 01, 2008; ... This study utilizes experimental archaeology to explore aspects of Folsom weaponry and subsistence strategies that may not be clearly visible in the archaeological record. Atlatl darts tipped with 25 replicated Folsom points hafted in five different foreshaft designs were propelled into bovine ...
Bison Exploitation in the Wyoming Basin at the Middle/Late Holocene Transition: A View from the Graham Ranch Site
Aug 01, 2008; ... Wyoming Basin archaeofaunas dating to the Middle/Late Holocene transition typically lack bison remains and instead suggest a focus on a wide range of smaller prey species. Excavations along the Sweetwater River at the Graham Ranch site produced an extensive assemblage of highly fragmented bison ...
Biomechanical Analysis of Humeral and Femoral Structural Variation in the Great Plains
Aug 01, 2008; ... Variation in humeral and femoral structural morphology of Great Plains populations is examined for differences due to subsistence practice and geographical location. The sample consists of Archaic hunter-gatherers, early and middle Woodland hunter-gatherers, late Woodland incipient ...
Editors Note
Aug 01, 2008; ... The Plains Anthropological Society format for articles submitted for publication has been printed in the February 1987 (Vol. 32, No. 115) issue of Plains Anthropologist. The format closely follows the Society for American Archaeology journal format which is available on the WEB at ...
A Comment on Howard's Authentication Analysis of the Angus Nebraska Fluted Point
Aug 01, 2008; ... Howard (2001) attempts to determine if the Angus "point", reportedly found with a mammoth skeleton in south central Nebraska in 1931, is an authentic artifact or a modern fake. Howard uses the lack of use-wear and post-depositional surface modification of the artifact as his evidence to infer ...