Affluent Foragers of the North American Plains: Landscape Archaeology of the Black HillsAlthough trends in anthropological thinking have gradually shifted away from considering prehistoric groups as specialists in subsistence provisioning, many scholars studying the North American Plains still consider man to be the Bison hunter'. In this study, Marcel Kornfield presents archaeological evidence and a theoretical model for the inhabitants of the Black Hills being generalists' or broad spectrum hunters, Considering the environment, ecology, sites, landscape and technological organisation required for subsistence provisioning, Kornfield presents a new approach to interpreting forage patterns in this part of the North American Plains. |
Contents
MAN THE BISON HUNTER? | 2 |
THE NORTHWEST PLAINS PREHISTORY | 11 |
SUBSISTENCE ECOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY OF FORAGING SOCIETIES | 17 |
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adjusted standardized residuals analysis archeological record assemblage Basin/Foothills Belle Fourche bifaces bison Black Hills Foothills Black Hills Grasslands Black Hills Proper butchering camp chipped stone communal bison counts top row Creek Breaks cultural debitage distribution diversity drainage basins ecozones edible encounter rates environment estimated Figure FM PF frequency Frison Grasslands greasewood ground stone Hartville Hartville Uplift hearths High Plains hunter-gatherers hunters hunting includes counts top Juniper Kornfeld landscape locations Low Density Woodland mobility northern pocket gopher Northwest Plains Paleoindian Pine Breaks Plains Archaic plant densities ponderosa pine population density Powder River Basin precipitation processing projectile points ratio regional Reher return rate riparian sample Simms small animals spatial species stone circles study area table includes counts technological organization township University of Wyoming variation vegetation communities western Black Hills