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GREAT PLAINS ARCHAEOLOGY FALL 1999

READINGS

| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 6 |

The following readings are listed by the week they are assigned - you should expect to read 150-200 pages on a average week.  We will discuss them the following week.

Week 1 (8/23/99): The readings for next week touch on three of the research themes that have played major roles in the practice of  Great Plains archaeology.  These are 1) human/environmental interactions and multidisciplinary research; 2) the direct historical approach and use of ethnographic analogy; and 3) archaeological taxonomy and boundary concerns.  This set of reading should give a historical foundation upon which our later readings will build.

*McKern, W.C. (1939).  The Midwestern Taxonomic Method as an Aid in Archaeological Culture Studies. American Antiquity 4:301-313.

*Wedel, Waldo R. (1938) The Direct Historical Approach in Pawnee Archaeology. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 97(7). Washington, D.C.

*Kroeber, A.L. (1947). Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America. University of California Press, Berkeley.  READ pages 1-9; 76-86

Eggan, Fred R. (1952). The Ethnological Cultures and Their Archaeological Backgrounds. In  Archaeology of Eastern United States, edited by J.B. Griffin, pp. 35-45. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Mulloy, William (1952). The Northern Plains. In  Archaeology of Eastern United States, edited by J.B. Griffin, pp. 124-138. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Wedel, Waldo R. (1961).  Prehistoric Man on the Great Plains. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. READ Chapter Two (pp. 20-45).

Lehmer, Donald J. (1970). Climate and Culture History in the Middle Missouri Valley. In Pleistocene and Recent Environments if the Central Great Plains, edited by W. Dort and J.K Jones, pp. 117-129. Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Special Publication 3. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.

Week 2 (8/30/99):  Note (there is no class next Monday, September 6th -- University Holiday).   The readings for next class give an overview of some current topics relevant to Plains archaeology (plan on scheduling time for this group -- there are about 240 pages assigned).  In reading these, think about both the common themes and the differences in relation to the readings for week 1.    Also, by the next class, in addition to your weekly written summary, bring in a list of at least three research questions that you think would be relevant to contemporary Plains archaeology.

Knight, Dennis H. (1994). Mountains and Plains: The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes. Yale University Press, New Haven.   Read Chapter 5, Grasslands (pp.67-89).

Krause, Richard A. (1998).  A History of Great Plains Prehistory.  In Archaeology of the Great Plains, edited by W.R. Wood, pp. 48-86. University Press of Kansas. Lawrence.

Kay, Marvin (1998).  The Great Plains Setting. In Archaeology of the Great Plains, edited by W.R. Wood, pp. 16-47. University Press of Kansas. Lawrence.

*Lyman, R. Lee, Michael J. O'Brien, and Robert C. Dunnell (1997).  The Rise and Fall of Culture History. Plenum, New York. Read Chapters 6 (Classification of Artifact Aggregates) and 7 (Culture History, Cultural Anthropology, and Cultural Evolution) pp. 159-225.

*Osborn, Alan J. (1987).  Scientific Research Programmes: Toward a Synthesis and Evaluation of CRM Archaeology.  In Perspectives on Archaeological Resources Management in the Great Plains, edited by A.J. Osborn and R. C. Hassler pp. 7-71.   I & O Publishing, Omaha.

*Bamforth, Douglas B. (1999) Theory and Inference in Plains Archaeology. Plains Anthropologist 44(169):209-229.

Martin, Paul S. and Christine R. Szuter (1999). War Zones and Game Sinks in Lewis and Clark's West. Conservation Biology 13(1):36-45.

Week 3 (9/13/99): The readings due next week are all in your text books. In doing your written summaries of these readings, discuss how the readings for this week relate to the materials we've read the last several week.

*Hofman, J. (1996) -- read pages 1-40

*Frison and Mainfort (1996) -- read pp. 1-8

Holliday (1997) -- read pp. 1-50

Week 4 (9/20/99): The readings due next week are all in your text books.   Based on the direction we take during discussion (if topics seem to be capturing your interest), several additional articles may be added.

Hofman, J. (1996). -- read pages 41-79

Frison and Mainfort (1996) read pages 8-17

Holliday (1997) read pages 50-148.

Week 6 (10/4/99): For next week we'll again have a fairly light reading load from the texts. In addition to the basic readings, you will also visit the NSF web page on proposal preparation (http://www.nsf.gov/home/grants/grants_prep.htm) and begin preparation for getting your proposal together.  We'll also talk in class about an assignment using the Plains Anthropological Conference Abstracts (http://www.augie.edu/archlab/plainsconf.html/pc.html). Note that you'll not be doing the written summary of readings for next week.

In the Hofman text, read pp. 101-149 (Articles by Adair, Logan (2 articles) and Lees),

In the Frison and Mainfort text, read  pp. 26-40, read