Wister Area Fourche Maline: A Contested Landscape

Rowe, Simone

Wister Area Fourche Maline: A Contested Landscape

dc.contributor.advisor	Rankin-Hill, Lesley
dc.contributor.advisor	Wyckoff, Don
dc.contributor.author	Rowe, Simone
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Warren, Diane
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Livingood, Diane
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Safiejko-Mroczka, Barbara
dc.date.accessioned	2014-05-22T15:27:52Z
dc.date.available	2014-05-22T15:27:52Z
dc.date.issued	2014-05-09
dc.date.manuscript	2014-05-09
dc.description.abstract	The Wister area of southeastern Oklahoma was a contested landscape during the Fourche Maline (Late Woodland cultural period). This claim is supported by paleopathological evidence for high rates of skeletal trauma and bioarchaeological evidence for high rates of group and mass burials. Feuding appears to have been rampant with high levels of traumatic death (group burials) and trophy-taking behavior. The contested landscape impacted residents of the valley in multiple ways. In addition to loss of life for both adults and children and the physical trauma from fractured bones and projectile points, the residents of the valley suffered from probable significant, though intermittent, intergenerational nutritional stress. This nutritional stress is hypothesized to be the result of a restricted diet that resulted from constricted hunting and gathering territories that were the consequences of widespread local feuding.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11244/10438
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Anthropology, Physical.	en_US
dc.thesis.degree	Ph.D.	en_US
dc.title	Wister Area Fourche Maline: A Contested Landscape	en_US
ou.group	College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Anthropology