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• ISBN: 0803235569
• ISBN: 9780803235564
• Physical Description: xviii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, ©1992.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-361) and index.

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Foreword / Flavia Waters Champe -- Background: The environmental setting ; The Omaha Annual Round ; Archaeological and ethnohistorical investigations of the Omahas -- Big Village and Omaha history: The Omahas before 1775 ; Big Village, 1775-1819 ; The Omahas on the Elkhorn, 1820-1834 ; The last years of Big Village, 1834-1845 -- Excavations at Big Village, 25DK5: Earthlodge ruins ; Exterior storage-refuse pits ; Village refuse tests and other excavations -- Omaha village organization and earthlodge architecture: Historic sources on Omaha earthlodges ; Archaeological expression of Omaha earthlodges ; Other dwelling types ; Other village features ; Omaha village organization -- Excavations at the Big Village cemeteries, 25DK2 and 25DK10: Feature descriptions for 25DK2a ; Feature descriptions for 25DK2b ; Feature descriptions for 25DK10 -- Ethnographic and historical background to Omaha funerary practices: Historical and ethnographic accounts ; Summary of Omaha burial treatment at 25DK2 and 25DK10 ; Comparison of ethnographic and archaeological descriptions of Omaha funerary practices ; Summary of pre-Omaha funerary treatments at 25DK2 -- Early nineteenth-century Omaha material culture: artifact descriptions: Trade goods ; Native artifacts -- Artifact occurrence and distribution at Big Village: Material culture in the Big Village cemeteries ; Material culture at Big Village: intrasite comparisons ; Comparison of material culture: Big Village and Leavenworth ; Historical and archaeological views of Big Village material culture ; Conclusion -- Omaha demography: Methods : Lifetable analysis ; Demographic comparisons ; Overview of Omaha population history -- Conclusions -- Appendix: Vertebrate remains from Big Village / H. Edwin Jackson, Susan L. Scott.

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Tonwontonga Site (Neb.)
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Omaha (Indiens) > Antiquités.
Tonwontonga (Etats-Unis (Neb) ; site archéologique)

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