Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Tables xiii
5. One A Sloping Land: An Introduction to Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains 1
6. Two Intersecting Landscapes in Northeastern Colorado: A Case Study from the Donovan Site 17
7. Three Making Places: Burned Rock Middens, Feasting, and Changing Land Use in the Upper Arkansas River Basin 41
8. Four Ritual Landscapes, Population, and Changing Sense of Place during the Late Prehistoric Transition in Eastern Colorado 71
9. Five Landscapes and Peoples of the Llano Estacado 115
10. Six The Details of Home: Landscape Continuity in the High Plains 157
11. Seven Purgatorio, Purgatoire, or Picketwire: Negotiating Local, National, and Transnational Identities along the Purgatoire River in Nineteenth-Century Colorado 173
12. Eight The Behavior of Surface Artifacts: Building a Landscape Taphonomy on the High Plains 203
13. Nine Prehistoric Settlement Patterns on the High Plains of Western Nebraska and the Use of Geographic Information Systems for Landscape Analyses 237
14. Ten Places in the Heartland: Landscape Archaeology on the Plains 277
15. About the Contributors 287
16. Index 291