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A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The mythic American West, with its perilous frontiers, big skies, and vast resources, is frequently perceived as unchanging and timeless. The work of many western-based historical archaeologists over the past decade, however, has revealed narratives that often sharply challenge that timelessness. Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens reveals an archaeological past that is distinct to the regionbut not in ways that popular imagination might suggest.Instead, this volume highlights a western past characterized by rapid and ever-changing interactions between diverse groups of people across a wide range of environmental and economic situations. The dynamic and unpredictable lives of western communities have prompted a constant challenging and reimagining of both individual identities and collective understandings of their position within a broader national experience.Indeed, the archaeological West is one clearly characterized by mobility rather than stasis. The archaeologies presented in this volume explore the impact of that pervasive human mobility on the Westa world of transience, impermanence, seasonal migration, and accelerated tr

Author

Mark Warner; Margaret Purser; Carrie Smith; Kelli Casias

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press and the Society for Historical Archaeology

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496200372

Subjects

History, Humanities