Table of Contents

List of Figures
List Of Tables

I - The Cody Complex
1. Introducing The Cody Complex - Edward J. Knell and Mark P. MuÑiz

II - Cody Complex Environment and Faunal Context
2. Paleoenvironmental Change and Cultural Ecology of The Cody Complex on the Great Plains and Adjacent Rocky Mountains - Mark P. MuÑiz
3. Evolution of the High Plains Paleoindian Landscape: The Paleoecology of Great Plains Faunal Assemblages - Chris Widga
4. Sticking It to the Bison: Exploring Variation in Cody Bison Bonebeds - Matthew E. Hill Jr.

III - The Cody Complex In Site And Regional Context
5. Cody Complex Land Use in Western North Dakota and Southern Saskatchewan - Matthew J. Root, Edward J. Knell, and Jeb Taylor
6. A Review of The Cody Complex in Alberta - Robert J. Dawe
7. Cody in the Rockies: The Mountain Expression of a Plains Culture Complex - Matthew E. Hill Jr. and Edward J. Knell
8. Way Out West: Cody Complex Occupations from the Northwestern Great Basin - Daniel S. Amick

IV - Modeling Cody Complex Lifeways and Reevaluating The Cody Complex as an Archaeological Construct
9. Cody Complex Land Use Organization on the Northwestern Great Plains - Edward J. Knell
10. Managing Risk on the Western Plains During The Cody Complex - Mark P. MuÑiz
11. The Scottsbluff Bison Quarry Site: Its Place in The Cody Complex - Ruthann Knudson

V - Perspectives On The Cody Complex
12. A Cody Future: Comments - Douglas B. Bamforth

Appendix: Cody Site Summary for Alberta
List of Contributors
Index

About the Author

Edward J. Knell is an assistant professor of anthropology at California State University, Fullerton.

Mark P. MuÑiz is an associate professor of anthropology at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota.

Reviews

“Presents new information and a synthesis not available anywhere else. No other compendium of Cody data exists, and the volume presents the most current data available on the subject. It contributes greatly to our knowledge of a time period that has been without much coverage and that has no synthesis available.”—Mary Lou Larson, coeditor of  Hell Gap: A Stratified Paleoindian Campsite at the Edge of the Rockies (The University of Utah Press, 2009) “This volume represents the most current and comprehensive compilation of data on a historically well-known, but poorly understood archaeological tradition.... I commend the editors for rounding up this group of researchers and putting this work together. Compiling an edited volume is pretty much the academic equivalent of trying to herd cats. This attempt to focus on the behavioral aspects of the Cody archaeological record is a step in the right direction toward a better understanding of this highly dynamic, flexible, and wide-ranging culture.”—Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology Book Reviews
“Readers will find that the volume thus reflects the kinds of questions that are being posed by contemporary Paleoindian researchers and they will see how rich the ever-growing empirical record of the Cody Complex truly is. The volume is carefully edited and integrated, with chapters that are well written and nicely illustrated.”—Journal of Anthropological Research
“Fills a much-needed void in the literature, providing a compilation of previous and ongoing research into a unique cultural and paleoenvironmental period of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain region.”—Great Plains Research