Phipps Site Ceramics: A Typological, Morphological, and Contextual Analysis of a Mid-twentieth Century Legacy Collection

Abstract

frameworks for exploring social organization, political leadership and ideology, cultural contact, and ethnicity” (p. 1), which is notably ambitious for a relatively short book (171 pages of text). However, it is well edited and succinct with contributed chapters of uniformly high quality and an engaging writing style. Although of obvious interest to those involved directly with Central Plains archaeology, this book also has value to a broad audience of archaeologists seeking comparative case studies and insights into the archaeology of specific descendant Indigenous groups such as the Pawnee and Kanza. Beck’s chapter looking at Puebloan–Plains interactions usefully expands the geographic scope of the volume, and Hill and Ritterbush’s thoughtful concluding remarks will likely be cited often by future authors exploring Central Plains archaeology topics.