Southwestern Minnesota Archaeology: "12,000 Years In The Prairie Lake Region" (Minnesota Prehistoric Archaeology Series)

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the peoples who inhabited the Prairie Lake Region of the northeastern Plains before the arrival of European explorers. The area of focus is on southwestern Minnesota, north-central Iowa, and southeastern South Dakota. The author describes the dramatic environmental changes that occurred during the precontact millennia and their impact on the human, animal, and plant cultures of the region once treated as the insignificant edge of the Great Plains and Eastern Woodlands.