Archaeology on the Edge

New Perspectives from the Northern Plains

Edited by Jane H. Kelley, Brian Kooyman
Contributions by Jack W. Brink, J.F. Dormaar, H.V. Hills, Jane Kelley, Brian Kooyman, Alison Landals, Robert McGhee, Paul McNeil, Gerald A. Oetelaar, Trevor R. Peck, Scott Raymond, Elizabeth Robertson, M. Shayne Tolman, J. Rod Vickers, Dale Walde, and Michael C. Wilson
Categories: Social Sciences, Archeology, Anthropology
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Paperback : 9781552381380, 276 pages, November 2004
Ebook (PDF) : 9781552382837, 276 pages, November 2004
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Table of contents

 

Introduction
Brian Kooyman & Jane Kelley

Remembering Dick Forbis
Scott Raymond

Between Racism and Romanticism, Scientism and Spiritualism: The Dilemmas of New World Archaeology
Robert McGhee

Manyberries Cairn DgOo-1, Alberta, Canada
J.F. Dormaar

Mortlach and One–Gun: Phase to Phase
Dale Walde

Editing the Cultural Landscape: A Taphonomic Perspective on the Destruction of Aboriginal Sites on the Northwest Plains
Paul McNeil, L.V. Hills, B. Kooyman & M. Shayne Tolman

Islands in a Sea of Grass: The Significance of Wood in Winter Campsite Selection on the Northwestern Plains
J. Rod Vickers & Trevor R. Peck

Stone Circles, Social Organization and Special Places: Forbis' Skepticism Revisited
Gerald A. Oetelaar

The Lessons of Buffalo Bird Woman: Faunal Abundance and Representation from Plains Oral History
Jack W. Brink

Identification of Marrow Extraction in Zooarchaeological Assemblages Based on Fracture Patterns
Brian Kooyman

Communal Hunting as a Social Model for Paleoindian to Early Archaic Transition on the Plains
Elizabeth Robertson

Horse Heaven: Change in Late Precontact to Contact Period Landscape Use in Southern Alberta
Alison Landals

 

Description

 

Dedicated to the memory of Richard G. Forbis, this collection of papers presented by his students and colleagues represents more than a tribute to a pioneer and legend in Alberta archaeology.

Richard "Dick" Forbis was seminal in putting archaeology in Alberta on the road it has taken and in establishing the field of cultural resource management. Throughout his career, he was passionate about many issues facing modern archaeology and imparted his concern and enthusiasm to his students and colleagues, seeking to push the boundaries of our preconceptions and encourage those around him to find answers to many difficult yet challenging questions.

In this spirit, the papers chosen for this collection focus on new directions in northern plains archaeological research and are a unique and topical contribution to modern archaeology.