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 ...