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- The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains
- Cambridge World Archaeology
- The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Where and What Are the Great Plains?
- Chapter 3 Peopling the Continent, Peopling the Plains:
- Chapter 4 Paleoindian Hunters (and Gatherers):
- Chapter 5 Diversity, Environmental Change, and External Connection:
- Chapter 6 Mounds, Pots, Pipes, and Bison:
- Chapter 7 The Context of Maize Farming on the Great Plains
- Chapter 8 Settled Farmers and Their Neighbors, Part 1:
- Chapter 9 Settled Farmers and Their Neighbors Continued:
- Chapter 10 The Plains Village Period, Part 3:
- Chapter 11 One Promise Kept:
- Chapter 12 Afterword
- References
- Index
Chapter 6 - Mounds, Pots, Pipes, and Bison:
The Plains Woodland Period, 600 BC to AD 950
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 November 2021
- The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains
- Cambridge World Archaeology
- The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Where and What Are the Great Plains?
- Chapter 3 Peopling the Continent, Peopling the Plains:
- Chapter 4 Paleoindian Hunters (and Gatherers):
- Chapter 5 Diversity, Environmental Change, and External Connection:
- Chapter 6 Mounds, Pots, Pipes, and Bison:
- Chapter 7 The Context of Maize Farming on the Great Plains
- Chapter 8 Settled Farmers and Their Neighbors, Part 1:
- Chapter 9 Settled Farmers and Their Neighbors Continued:
- Chapter 10 The Plains Village Period, Part 3:
- Chapter 11 One Promise Kept:
- Chapter 12 Afterword
- References
- Index
Summary
We have seen objects moving great distances within the Plains and coming onto the grasslands from much of the North American continent more and more over time, albeit in small numbers. However, objects move because people move them, and people rarely move the kinds of small, durable items that preserve in the archaeological record in isolation. Instead, they usually move them along with a variety of other things, including nondurable things like food. That things move with people also means that those people move, and that their knowledge – language, customs, technical information, ideology – moves, too. But objects, people, and ideas do not necessarily move together in equal proportion or with equal effect.
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- The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains , pp. 152 - 194Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021