| Southwestern Minnesota Archaelogy Contributor(s): Anfinson, Scott (Author) |
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ISBN: 087351355X ISBN-13: 9780873513555 Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1997 Annotation: This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the peoples who inhabited the Prairie Lake Region of the northeastern Plains before the arrival of European explorers. The area of focus is on southwestern Minnesota, north-central Iowa, and southeastern South Dakota. The author describes the dramatic environmental changes that occurred during the precontact millennia and their impact on the human, animal, and plant cultures of the region once treated as the insignificant edge of the Great Plains and Eastern Woodlands. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 977.601 |
| LCCN: 97000518 |
| Series: Minnesota Prehistoric Archaeology |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 8.54" W x 10.98" (1.01 lbs) 156 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Prehistoric - Cultural Region - Great Lakes - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Iowa - Geographic Orientation - Minnesota - Geographic Orientation - South Dakota |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing together a century of widely scattered scientific and technical reports, as well as 25 years of first-hand experience in the field, Scott Anfinson provides the first comprehensive overview of the peoples who inhabited the Prairie Lake Region of the northeastern Plains before the arrival of European explorers. Minnesota Prehistoric Archaeology Series #14 Focusing on southwestern Minnesota, north-central Iowa, and southeastern South Dakota, the author describes the dramatic environmental changes that occurred during the precontact millennia and their impact on the human, animal, and plant cultures of the region once treated as the insignificant edge of the Great Plains and Eastern Woodlands. Dr. Anfinson's synthesis reveals how the successions of peoples in this transition region selectively accepted--and denied--influences from the better-known cultures that flourished around them. Archaeologists and historians of Native Americans, as well as amateur and armchair archaeologists, will welcome this valuable addition to the region's geological, natural, and cultural history. |