Introduction: Postprocessualism and Plains archaeology / Philip Duke and Michael C. Wilson -- Processual and postprocessual archaeology: a brief critical review / Alice B. Kehoe -- We do not need your past! politics, Indian time, and Plains archaeology / Larry J. Zimmerman -- Beyond hearth and home on the range: feminist approaches to Plains archaeology / Mary K. Whelan -- Taxonomic determinism in evolutionary theory: another model of multilinear cultural evolution with an example from the Plains / Patricia J. O'Brien -- Predictive modeling and cultural resource management: an alternative view from the Plains periphery / Monica Bargielski Weimer -- Social and political causes for the emergence of intensive agriculture in eastern North America / David W. Benn -- Great Plains mound building: a postprocessual view / Richard A. Krause -- Sing away the buffalo: faction and fission on the northern Plains / James F. Brooks -- The household as a portable mnemonic landscape: archaeological implications for Plains stone circle sites / Michael C. Wilson -- Medicine wheels on the northern Plains: contexts, codes, and symbols / Neil A. Mirau -- Projectile points as cultural symbols: ethnography and archaeology / Miranda Warburton and Philip Duke -- Paradigm in the rough / Melissa A. Connor -- Fighting back on the Plains / Ian Hodder
Analysis
Postprocessual archaeology
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-283) and index