Plains Anthropologist back issues from May 2008:
Cooperation and Conflict: Examining Alternative Views of Archaeology on the Great Plains
May 01, 2008; ... Within the North American Great Plains four primary groups of people are actively interested in Plains archaeology: professional archaeologists, amateur archaeologists, artifact collectors and Native Americans. This paper presents survey and interview data comparing the interests and motivations ...
2007 Distinguished Service Award
May 01, 2008; ... Thomas A. Witty received the Distinguished Service Award from the Plains Anthropological Society at the 65th annual meeting in Rapid City, South Dakota on October 12, 2007. The Distinguished Service Award recognizes lifetime achievement in Plains-related research, teaching, and scholarship, and ...
Plains Woodland Pottery: A Use-Alteration Perspective
May 01, 2008; ... Surface alterations allow insight into the technofunction of individual vessels and vessel types, something about which little is known for the Plains Woodland time period. The ceramic assemblage from the Schultz site (25VY1), a Plains Woodland site in central Nebraska, is analyzed for evidence ...
66th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference
May 01, 2008; ... October 1-5, 2008 Laramie, Wyoming Hosted by George C. Frison Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology Department of Anthropology Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist State Historic Preservation Office Wyoming Highway ...
Re-evaluation of Cerro Rojo: A Response to Seymour
May 01, 2008; ... Seymour's (2004) recent article contends that a site in the Hueco Mountains of southern New Mexico and west Texas was occupied by the Apache and renegade segments of local nomadic groups of Plains origin. We believe that she over interprets the data from the site and generally sees patterns in ...
Anthropomorphic Effigies of the Plains
May 01, 2008; ... Human effigies are rare and widely distributed on the northern and central Plains but may be absent from the southern Plains. Easily disorganized or destroyed, few figures had survived undamaged when first recorded by such pioneering archaeologists as Richard G. Forbis. Many of the figures ...
Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America
May 01, 2008; ... Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America. Edited by RENEE B. WALKER AND BOYCE N. DRISKELL. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2007. xv + 328 pp., figures, tables, bibliography. $59.95 (Cloth). Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America challenges the notion of ...
Washita Memories: Eyewitness Views of Custer's Attack on Black Kettle's Village
May 01, 2008; ... Washita Memories: Eyewitness Views of Custer's Attack on Black Kettle's Village. Compiled and edited by RICHARD G HARDORFF. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2006. xvii + 474 pp., figures, tables, appendices, bibliography. $34.95 (Cloth). By 1868, when the events documented in this ...
Surfing Behind the Wave: A Counterpoint Discussion Relating to "A Ranchería in the Gran Apachería"
May 01, 2008; ... Innovative methodological and theoretical approaches are required to tackle the difficult problem of discovering and interpreting mobile group sites in the protohistoric Southwest. Traditional and outmoded practices that may be appropriate for study of sedentary peoples are not amenable to the ...
A Kiowa's Odyssey. A Sketchbook from Fort Marion
May 01, 2008; ... A Kiowa's Odyssey. A Sketchbook from Fort Marion. Edited and Introduced by Phillip Earenfight. With contributions by Janet Catherine Berlo, Phillip Earenfight, Brad D. Lookingbill, and George Miles. University of Washington Press, Seattle, in association with The Troutman Gallery, Carlisle, ...
Historical Archaeology: Why The Past Matters/The Archaeology of Collective Action
May 01, 2008; ... Historical Archaeology: Why The Past Matters. By BARBARA J. LITTLE, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, California, 2007. 205 pages, 11 illustrations, $22.95 (paper). The Archaeology of Collective Action. By DEAN SAITTA, University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 2007. 140 pages, 5 maps, 18 ...
Archaeological Anthropology: Perspectives on Method and Theory
May 01, 2008; ... Archaeological Anthropology: Perspectives on Method and Theory. Edited by JAMES M. SKIBO, MICHAEL W. GRAVES, and MIRIAM T. STARK. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2007. ? + 309 pp., figures, tables, bibliography. $55 (Cloth). This is a good book. In fact, this is a very good book-one ...