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{"title":"Phipps Site Ceramics: A Typological, Morphological, and Contextual Analysis of a Mid-twentieth Century Legacy Collection","authors":"Margaret E. Beck","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2022.2163604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2022.2163604","url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"67 1","pages":"431 - 432"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48260138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analysis of the protohistoric period fauna from the Scott County Pueblo site in western Kansas","authors":"Faith Wilfong, M. Hill","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2023.2177061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2023.2177061","url":null,"abstract":"The Scott County Pueblo (14SC1) is a seven-room masonry pueblo situated on the High Plains in western Kansas. Recent analyses identify at least two occupations prior to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680: an earlier Dismal River Complex (ancestral Apache, Ndee) occupation dating between AD 1470 and 1640, and a later multiethnic occupation of ancestral Apache (Ndee) and Rio Grande Puebloan peoples dating around AD 1630–1690. This paper reports the results of the zooarchaeological analysis of a faunal collection excavated by James H. Gunnerson in 1965. Our results indicate Scott County hunters preyed upon an array of species, although bison, canids, and turtles were the most common taxa procured. Based on bison skeletal part representation, we hypothesize small groups of hunters traveled to procure bison, and the differential transport of high utility body parts reflects a subsistence strategy to accommodate for the limited labor available for carcass transport.","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"67 1","pages":"337 - 371"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44045935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Red pigment in the Central Plains: A Pawnee case at Kitkahahki Town","authors":"Margaret E. Beck, B. Macdonald, J. Ferguson, Mary J. Adair","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2022.2108601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2022.2108601","url":null,"abstract":"James Murie, early twentieth century ethnographer and member of the Pawnee Nation, once wrote that the “things that are most acceptable to the Pawnee gods are smoke, fat, paint, and flesh” (Murie 1981:466). Here we describe red paint at Kitkahahki Town, a late eighteenth–early nineteenth-century Kitkahahki Pawnee village in north-central Kansas. Using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy, we compare archaeological paint and pigment samples to three pigment materials – pipestone powder, vermilion, and ochre – all documented in the Great Plains after European colonization. We ultimately find no evidence of pipestone powder or vermilion as pigment at Kitkahahki Town and conclude that ochre (some of which may be from the Lower Cretaceous Dakota formation) is the most likely pigment material at the site. Ochre may have been especially significant because of links between this earth pigment and Pawnee sacred geography.","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"67 1","pages":"405 - 430"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43948525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ógle Wakȟáŋ Kiŋ: Relational materiality and the Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890","authors":"Fredrik Jansson","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2022.2112483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2022.2112483","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the materiality of the Ghost Dance shirt – ógle wakȟáŋ kiŋ – among the Lakota, and its associated symbols and functions. By cross-referencing sources on the Ghost Dance to sources on traditional Lakota belief and ritual, it is shown that the practice of interrituality – the use of established ritual elements and acts in novel contexts – enabled traditional ritual dynamics and ontological understandings to be actualized and materialized in the Ghost Dance. This gave it performative powers and a sense of cultural familiarity with which participants could navigate a turbulent period with recognizable ritual elements. Considering the primacy of visions, concepts such as wakȟáŋ, wašíčuŋ, tȟúŋ, and wótȟawe, protective designs, and ritual processes, the article problematizes a tradition-innovation dichotomy, suggesting instead that ritual materiality mediated between the two. Likewise, it is argued that the protective nature of the shirts was primarily existential and spiritual rather than exhibitions of militarism.","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"67 1","pages":"219 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41409616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Local freshwater shell bead production at Cluny Fortified Village (EePf-1), south-central Alberta","authors":"M. Patton, Shalcey Dowkes","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2022.2113266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2022.2113266","url":null,"abstract":"Beads in many forms were used as decorative items on the Great Plains during the historic and prehistoric periods. Cluny Fortified Village (EePf-1) on the Northwestern Plains is a unique Late Prehistoric period site where excavations have revealed over 1,600 shell artifacts including beads, bead preforms or “blanks,” and substantial waste from shell bead production. These shell artifacts provide insight into local prehistoric bead production using two local bivalve species Lampsilis siliquoidea (fatmucket) and Lasmigona complanata (white heelsplitter). Experimental drilling on shell produced distinctive stepping and striation patterns that identify the method of drilling: either holding the drill in the hand or mounting the drill on a shaft. Most beads from the site exhibit patterns indicative of hafted drill use. In addition, the distribution of shell at the site indicates bead production areas as well as a cache of finished and unfinished beads.","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"67 1","pages":"240 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44720848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dating stone arrangements using luminescence: More data from the northern Great Plains","authors":"J. Feathers, Stephen A. Aaberg, Joshua H. Chase, M. Kennedy, L. Peterson, B. Reeves, Scott J. Wagers","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2022.2100618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2022.2100618","url":null,"abstract":"Luminescence dating of rocks and sediments associated with various anthropogenic rock arrangements has the potential to provide age information for these hard-to-date features. This study applies infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) to sediments under rocks and to the rocks themselves from tipi rings and other features from the northern Plains. Dates are provided for 27 sediment and 5 rock samples from 7 archaeological sites in Montana, North Dakota, and Saskatchewan, ranging in age from 0.20 to 4.35 ka. Most of the ages are consistent with one another and with other dating evidence but some discrepancies show the complexity involved in this kind of dating.","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"67 1","pages":"297 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48707091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In memoriam: David Mayer Gradwohl (1934–2022)","authors":"Nancy Osborn Johnsen, S. Lensink","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2022.2077589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2022.2077589","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"67 1","pages":"323 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43899545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"People in a Sea of Grass: Archaeology’s Changing Perspective on Indigenous Plains Communities","authors":"T. Weston","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2022.2119768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2022.2119768","url":null,"abstract":"contrary to technological analysis—have the advantage of including the entirety of flake assemblages. Analyses were also performed to understand the mixed character of the archaeological record. An impressive array of statistical analyses demonstrates significant differences in lithic assemblages from the Modena and Tempiute quarries. Consistency in results from attribute and mass analysis lends support to the arguments made here and to the complementary utilization of these techniques in lithic analysis. Chapters 6 and 7 are dedicated to the analysis of bifaces, which are abundant, especially in Modena’s case. Part of Chapter 6 discusses the continuum-versus-staged nature of the biface-reduction process, a historically relevant theme. Errett Callahan’s reduction stages within a continuum play an important role in this analysis, reflecting the influence of this approach in lithic analyses in North American archaeology. Shott’s results demonstrate some inconsistencies between some variables’ values—size, edge, and faceting—within Callahan’s stages. There are, however, consistent results between biface and flake analysis. Spatially, in the case of Modena, variation between different areas was recognized, as well as between bifaces recovered in the quarries and in spaces located farther away. Results obtained from the application of the “field processing model” supports its utilization; however, as Shott mentions, additional work is required to resolve problems of equifinality. I tend to think that in this case, an important one is modeling the effect of transport costs versus risk manufacture failure. Chapter 8 deals with different methods of estimating scales of quarrying and tool production. Results indicate that, in spite of the impressive spatial scale of the obsidian deposits, there are relatively modest rates of toolstone consumption. Quarry depletion over time could have transformed the analyzed quarries from logistically targeted places to opportunistically visited places. Chapter 9 deals with obsidian-hydration dating and allows Shott to temporally situate Modena’s peak usage. The calibrated results obtained suggest a steady rise from 11,000 BP to a peak at 4000–3000 BP, followed by a decline. These outcomes differ from the ones obtained in sites in its terrane, which suggest an older use time interval. Different reasons for this variation are suggested. Chapter 10 shows the overall archaeological distribution of both sources, which can be the product of very small populations. An important point made by Shott is that the utilization of particular terranes does not depend on source abundance, quality, and accessibility in isolation but instead becomes significant “in comparison with other sources” (p. 235). Chapter 11 summarizes questions posed and tentative answers obtained, along with questions for future research. The information included in each chapter as well as the analysis performed make this book a valuable contribution for specia","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"67 1","pages":"333 - 335"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45682424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas","authors":"Alison M. Hadley","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2022.2090795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2022.2090795","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"67 1","pages":"329 - 330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41604261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Northern plains late precontact and historic period winter sand dune usage by bison and human populations","authors":"Timothy Panas","doi":"10.1080/00320447.2022.2077605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2022.2077605","url":null,"abstract":"In past examinations of bison and human seasonal migration on the Northern Plains, ecology has played a central role. The definition of ecological regions, however, has only recognized the presence of either parkland or grassland regions. While some works do recognize the small role of “anomalous” landscapes within the grassland such as sand dunes, no detailed examination of these areas has yet to be conducted. This study approaches the role that dune environments played on the Northern Plains to present a holistic interpretation of environmental, historical, and archaeological data sources, and questions their classification as being anomalous. This research concludes that the present and continued use of broad-based ecological classifications to answer questions on bison and human landscape usage do not adequately or accurately interpret the body of historical and archaeological data currently on hand.","PeriodicalId":35520,"journal":{"name":"Plains Anthropologist","volume":"67 1","pages":"266 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46567526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}