Description: This volume is the first attempt to synthesize current knowledge on the cultural history of the Great Plains since Wedel's Prehistoric Man on the Great Plains became the standard reference on the subject almost forty years ago. Fourteen authors have undertaken the task of examining archaeological phenomena through time and by region to present a systematic overview of the region's human history. Focusing on habitat and cultural diversity and on the changing archaeological record, they reconstruct how people responded to the varying environment, climate, and biota of the grasslands to acquire the resources they needed to survive.
Review Quotes:
"A much needed updating--the first in more than thirty-five years--of Plains archaeology. An excellent reference work that will be useful in both undergraduate and graduate classes that relate to the Plains."--Susan C. Vehik, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
"Wood and his colleagues have woven together an admirable tapestry that supersedes Wedel's seminal volume Prehistoric Man on the Great Plains."--R. Bruce McMillan, Director, Illinois State Museum