Book Review: People in a Sea of Grass: Archaeology’s Changing Perspective on Indigenous Plains Communities by Matthew E. Hill and Lauren W. Ritterbush

Abstract

More than just an overview of the archaeology of the Central Great Plains, People in a Sea of Grass provides summaries of the state of knowledge in the region while also presenting new data and ways of thinking that expand our knowledge of the past The editors and all of the authors are steeped in the archaeology of the Central Plains, and their expertise is apparent. The volume correctly honors the contributions of Dr Donna C. Roper, who organized a symposium at the 2008 Plains Anthropological Conference that examined Waldo R. Wedel’s contributions to the archaeology of the Great Plains and the direction archaeology in the region has taken since then. The symposium led to the beginnings of an edited volume, but Donna passed in 2015, before the project had traction.