Reviews of Books:The Future of the Southern Plains Sherry L. Smith

2004 ◽  
Vol 109 (5) ◽  
pp. 1603-1604
Author(s):  
George M. Lubick
Keyword(s):  
Southern Plains

The geographic variability of the Plains Bison. A reconstruction using the earliest European illustrations of both subspecies*

1989 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
INGO KRUMBIEGEL ◽  
GUNTER G. SEHM
Keyword(s):  
Bison Bison ◽  
Geographic Variability ◽  
Northern Plains ◽  
Southern Plains

The subspecific division of the Plains Bison by one of the authors (Krumbiegel, 1980) into a Southern Plains Bison Bison bison bison (Linnaeus, 1758) and a Northern Plains Bison Bison bison montanae Krumbiegel, 1980, is here corroborated by reference to early illustrations and reports unknown to mammalogists, thereby proving that the authors' historiographical approach can be used in establishing taxonomic reconstructions of recently exterminated species or subspecies.

AMS Radiocarbon Dating of the Type Plainview and Firstview (Paleoindian) Assemblages: The Agony and the Ecstasy

1999 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vance T. Holliday ◽  
Eileen Johnson ◽  
Thomas W. Stafford
Keyword(s):  
Amino Acids ◽  
Great Plains ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Tight Cluster ◽  
Bison Antiquus

Plainview and Firstview are two of the principal post-Folsom Paleoindian artifact assemblages on the Great Plains, but good radiometric age control for these artifact styles is relatively poor, due in part to lack of reliable age control on the type collections. This study reports the results of AMS-radiocarbon dating of specific amino acids from Bison antiquus bone associated with the type Plainview and Firstview assemblages from the Plainview and Olsen-Chubbuck sites, respectively. Seven samples of bone and teeth from Plainview produced a surprisingly wide array of ages. As a result, the age of the bone bed and the type Plainview collection remain uncertain, but it is most likely ≥ 10,000 B.P. (but late or post-Folsom) given the dating and stratigraphic relationships at Plainview and other sites. Seven samples of bone from Olsen-Chubbuck yielded a tight cluster of ages averaging ca 9400 B.P., fitting well with other dated Firstview features on the Southern Plains. These results show that much better age control from more sites is needed in order to understand the Paleoindian record. AMS-radiocarbon dating of specific amino acids from bone has revolutionized such issues of chronology in archaeology, but like any other method, it can provide confusing results and must be used in conjunction with other chronometric data.

Kiowa at the Battle of the Washita, 27 November 1868

Ethnohistory ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-545
Author(s):  
William C. Meadows
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
Us Military

Abstract While the Battle of the Washita of 27 November 1868 is a well-documented event in Native American and Southern Plains history, especially regarding the Cheyenne, Kiowa involvement is little known. This work sheds light on which Kiowa were at the battle and their participation, through an examination of US military records, Kiowa ledger art, oral histories, onomastics, photographs, and an unpublished account from Kein-taddle of her husband’s (Chiefs Call Him) participation and later naming of three family members from his personal war actions in the battle. The account suggests not only that Chiefs Call Him was involved in the action against Major Joel Elliott and his detachment, who were killed that day, but that he also witnessed Elliott’s death and counted coup on him.

Clovis and Western Stemmed again: Reply to Fiedel and Morrow

2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Beck ◽  
George T. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Intermountain West ◽  
The South ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
Technological Differences ◽  
The Pacific

AbstractFiedel and Morrow challenge our argument that Clovis technology originated in the southern Plains or Southeast and from there was carried by populations migrating north. Upon entering the Intermountain West relatively late, they encountered a population utilizing a different technology (Western Stemmed), the latter having arrived independently from the Pacific coast. Fiedel and Morrow offer arguments in favor of Clovis-first in the Intermountain West and coastal California and against the coastal route, Clovis origins in the south, and technological differences between Clovis and Western Stemmed. We evaluate these arguments and find their supporting evidence, when provided, meager and unconvincing.

New Mexico Obsidian Sources and Exchange on the Southern Plains

1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy G. Baugh ◽  
Fred W. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Southern Plains

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Hannah Holleman
Keyword(s):  
Global Market ◽  
Dust Storms ◽  
Dust Bowl ◽  
Static Electricity ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
The World ◽  
Dry Conditions ◽  
Crop Agriculture ◽  
The U.S

This introductory chapter provides a background of the 1930s Dust Bowl on the U.S. southern plains, where the ancient grasslands that protected the soil from prairie winds and rains and nourished regional species were destroyed within just a few decades, following the violent opening of the plains to white settlement and the global market in the 1800s. Under pressure from the vagaries of the world economy, settlers sheared the land to expand cash-crop agriculture and ranching. As major drought descended on the plains, winds and static electricity lifted the desiccated, exposed topsoil, forming dust storms on an unprecedented scale. Such massive loss of soil and continued dry conditions meant the land could no longer support life as it once had. By the end of the 1930s, tens of thousands of people were displaced. Hence, when scientists today predict the increasing possibility of Dust Bowl-like conditions, they are signaling a particular kind of extreme ecological and social change.

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