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About the Author Mark Mitchell is the research director for Paleocultural Research Group, a member-supported nonprofit organization devoted to public archaeology and student training in the Plains and Southern Rocky Mountains. He earned his PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder and his MA from the University of Colorado at Denver. Previously, he worked for several cultural resource management firms and for the USDA Forest Service in Colorado, Wyoming, and Kansas. His research focuses on the archaeology of the Northern Great Plains, with a particular emphasis on the farming villages of the Middle Missouri. Current projects include studies of warfare and settlement change in the Heart River region and of nineteenth-century Northern Plains ceramic technology. Mitchell also studies historic American Indian art, the anthropology of technology, and the history of archaeology. His research has appeared in Plains Anthropologist, Antiquity, American Antiquity, Southwestern Lore, Colorado Archaeology, and in a number of book chapters. He coedited Across a Great Divide: Continuity and Change in Native North American Societies, 1400–1900, published by the University of Arizona Press (2010). ...

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