Beyond Subsistence: Plains Archaeology and the Postprocessual Critique

Contents

Contents Preface + ix Introduction: Postprocessualism and Plains Archaeology + 1 Philip Duke and Michael C. Wilson Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Perspectives 1. Processual and Postprocessual Archaeology: A Brief Critical Review + 19 Alice B. Kehoe 2. We Do Not Need Your Past! Politics, Indian Time, and Plains Archaeology + 28 Larry J. Zimmerman 3. Beyond Hearth and Home on the Range: Feminist Approaches to Plains Archaeology + 46 Mary K. Whelan 4. Taxonomic Determinism in Evolutionary Theory: Another Model of Multilinear Cultural Evolution with an Example from the Plains + 66 Patricia J. O'Brien 5. Predictive Modeling and Cultural Resource Management: An Alternative View from the Plains Periphery + 90 Monica Bargielski Weimer Part II: Building Alternative Archaeologies 6. Social and Political Causes for the Emergence of Intensive Agriculture in Eastern North America + 113 David W. Benn 7. Great Plains Mound Building: APostprocessual View + 129 Richard A. Krause 8. Sing Away the Buffalo: Faction and Fission on the Northern Plains + 143 James F. Brooks 9. The Household as a Portable Mnemonic Landscape: Archaeological Implications for Plains Stone Circle Sites + 169 Michael C. Wilson vi Preface 10. Medicine Wheels on the Northern Plains: Contexts, Codes, and Symbols • 193 Neil A. Mirau 11. Projectile Points as Cultural Symbols: Ethnography and Archaeology • 211 Miranda Warburton and Philip Duke Part III: Commentary 12. Paradigm in the Rough • 231 Melissa A. Connor 13. Fighting Back on the Plains • 235 Ian Hodder References • 241 Contributors • 285 Index • 287 Illustrations and Tables FIGURES Cross-Culture Types Defined on Basis of Wild and Domestic Food Production + 85 Adaptive Radiation of Some Cross-Culture Types + 87 Adaptive Radiation of Some Cross-Culture Types + 88 Fieldstone and Earth Mounds in Geary and Clay Counties + 133 Excavated Remains of Fieldstone and Earth Mound at 14GE129 + 134 Map of Northwestern Plains + 147 The Hagen Site + 151 The Hagen House-Pit + 152 The Hagen Mound + 153 White Earth Creek Site + 155 The Cluny Site + 157 Sites on or near Fort Berthold Reservation + 162 Tibetan Black Tent Site near Koko Nor + 184 Abandoned Black Tent Site + 186 Migrating Indians in Calgary, ca. 1886 + 188 Assiniboine Lodge near Fort Walsh, ca. 1876 + 190 Projectile Points as Contemporary Symbols + 212 TABLES Site Survey Data, Royal Gorge Resource Area + 100 Site Characteristics, Royal Gorge Resource Area + 103 Environmental Features by Method, Royal Gorge Resource Area + 104 Mound Fill Estimated in Meters, Mound at 14GE129 + 136 Distribution of Artifacts at Abandoned Tibetan Tenting Sites as a Possible Indicator of Gender Differentiation + 187 ...