Prehistoric Man on the Great Plains

Originally published in 1961 this copy a 1974 Fourth Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 355 pages, 6x9.25 in - 15.5x 23.5 cm, B&W illustrations and photographs.

Board edges lightly worn at front cover top corner and at spine head/heel. Top edge very lightly soiled. Price-clipped jacket quite sunned at spine with edge corners worn and back cover lightly soiled. Jacket wrapped in Brodart, wrapping taped to boards by previous owner. Free endpapers lightly edge-tanned. Front free endpaper, title page, and p.5 stamped by previous owner.

Waldo R. Wedel’s research influenced both mid-century American archaeological theory and archaeological studies of the Great Plains region. In this volume, Wedel surveys human prehistory on the Great Plains, adopting a non-specialist tone to draw conclusions regarding lifestyle and culture amongst prehistoric peoples from archaeological evidence. He organizes his work geographically, addressing variations in the artifacts and remains discovered as well as the influence of ecological factors on the region’s inhabitants. Throughout, he balances discussions of material evidence with the human cultures and situations that produced such evidence. An approachable overview of human prehistory on the North American grasslands written by a preeminent scholar in the field.

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