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Islands on the Plains: Ecological, Social, and Ritual Use of Landscapes Book

Islands on the Plains: Ecological, Social, and Ritual Use of Landscapes
Islands on the Plains: Ecological, Social, and Ritual Use of Landscapes, Scattered throughout the Great Plains are many isolated areas of varying size and ecology, quite distinct from the surrounding grasslands. Such spaces can be uplands like the Black Hills, low hills like the Nebraska Sand Hills, or linear areas such as sha, Islands on the Plains: Ecological, Social, and Ritual Use of Landscapes has a rating of 3.5 stars
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Islands on the Plains: Ecological, Social, and Ritual Use of Landscapes, Scattered throughout the Great Plains are many isolated areas of varying size and ecology, quite distinct from the surrounding grasslands. Such spaces can be uplands like the Black Hills, low hills like the Nebraska Sand Hills, or linear areas such as sha, Islands on the Plains: Ecological, Social, and Ritual Use of Landscapes
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  • Islands on the Plains: Ecological, Social, and Ritual Use of Landscapes
  • Written by author Marcel Kornfeld
  • Published by University of Utah Press, September 2003
  • Scattered throughout the Great Plains are many isolated areas of varying size and ecology, quite distinct from the surrounding grasslands. Such spaces can be uplands like the Black Hills, low hills like the Nebraska Sand Hills, or linear areas such as sha
  • Mostly anthropologists, but also historians and sociologists, apply theoretical concepts central to island biogeography to isolated biomes in the North American Great Plains. Such biomes can be uplands, sand hills, valleys, canyons, and other differentiat
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1Biogeographical Islands and Ecological Patches: Seeing the Great Plains from the Inside Out1
Pt. IPlaya Basins as Islands
2The Playas of the Southern High Plains: An Archipelago of Human Occupation of 12,000 Years on the North American Grasslands21
3Prehistoric Utilization of Patch Environments and Culture Change in Colorado's Central High Plains44
Pt. IILinear Islands: Streams and Canyons
4Catchment Basins as Islands in West-Central Oklahoma: Farra Canyon67
5The Western Niobrara River: An Inter-Island Passage on the Plains89
Pt. IIIUpland Islands
6Pull of the Hills: Technological Structures Around Biogeographical Islands111
7Investigations in the Bridger Mountain Range, Montana: A Backyard Archaeology Project142
8Environmental and Cultural Variation in the Nebraska Sand Hills167
Pt. VEcological Modeling and Resource Patches
9"Places Where They Kill Deer": Moisture Islands, Winter Climate, and Ungulate Ecology in the Northwestern Great Plains193
10Islands of Geophytes: Sego Lily and Wild Onion Patch Density in a High Plains Habitat220
Pt. VSacred and Social Islands
11Social Islands in the Denver Basin245
12Sacred Islands: An Exploration of Religion and Landscape in the Northern Great Plains258
Pt. VIPresent and Future of Plains Islands Research
13Islands and Patches in the Plains301
Contributors321
Index325


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