Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains

Contents

vii Contents List of Illustrations ix List of Tables xiii cHaPter 1. A Sloping Land: An Introduction to Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains—Bonnie J. Clark and Laura L. Scheiber 1 cHaPter 2. Intersecting Landscapes in Northeastern Colorado: A Case Study from the Donovan Site—Laura L. Scheiber 17 cHaPter 3. Making Places: Burned Rock Middens, Feasting, and Changing Land Use in the Upper Arkansas River Basin—Mark D. Mitchell 41 c ontents viii cHaPter 4. Ritual Landscapes, Population, and Changing Sense of Place during the Late Prehistoric Transition in Eastern Colorado— Kevin P. Gilmore 71 cHaPter 5. Landscapes and Peoples of the Llano Estacado—Eileen Johnson 115 cHaPter 6. The Details of Home: Landscape Continuity in the High Plains—Bonnie J. Clark 157 cHaPter 7. Purgatorio, Purgatoire, or Picketwire: Negotiating Local, National, and Transnational Identities along the Purgatoire River in Nineteenth-Century Colorado—Minette C. Church 173 cHaPter 8. The Behavior of Surface Artifacts: Building a Landscape Taphonomy on the High Plains—Oskar Burger, Lawrence C. Todd, and Paul Burnett 203 cHaPter 9. Prehistoric Settlement Patterns on the High Plains of Western Nebraska and the Use of Geographic Information Systems for Landscape Analyses—Michael R. Peterson 237 cHaPter 10. Places in the Heartland: Landscape Archaeology on the Plains—Philip Duke 277 About the Contributors 287 Index 291 ...