Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains, 2018, p.211
2018
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Digging Ditches: Archaeological Investigations of Historically Reported Fortifications at Bryson-Paddock (34KA5) and Other Southern Plains Village Sites
- Ist Teil von
- Archaeological Perspectives on Warfare on the Great Plains, 2018, p.211
- Ort / Verlag
- University Press of Colorado
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2018
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- In 1759 Spanish forces attacked a Wichita village on the Red River in south-central Oklahoma. This expedition provided the first description of a Wichita fortification, a roughly circular rampart and stockade surrounded by a ditch. Wichita groups, however, erected similar structures as early as ad 1500. Magnetic surveys and excavations at an early eighteenth-century Wichita village, Bryson-Paddock, revealed at least four concentric ditches representing portions of fortifications. The efforts expended to excavate ditches and build extensive fortifications at large villages reflect intensification of intertribal conflict in the southern Plains by 1700, probably arising from increased mobility with the arrival of
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 1607326698, 9781607326694Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctvgd21w_10
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Agricultural geography, Agricultural land, Agricultural sciences, Agriculture, Animals, Applied sciences, Archaeological methods, Archaeology, Biological sciences, Biology, Cartography, Civil engineering, Construction engineering, Ditches, Drainage structures, Earth sciences, Embankments, Engineering, Excavations, Farmlands, Fortresses, Forts, Geodesy, Geography, Geotechnical engineering, Horses, Hydraulic structures, Magnetic surveys, Mammals, Military bases, Military engineering, Military facilities, Military infrastructure, Physical sciences, Social sciences, Stockades, Trenches, Ungulates, Zoology