Introduction / W. Raymond Wood -- Great Plains setting / Marvin Kay -- History of Great Plains prehistory / Richard A. Krause -- Paleo-Indian cultures of the Great Plains / Jack L. Hofman and Russell W. Graham -- Northwestern and Northern Plains archaic / George C. Frison -- Central and Southern Plains archaic / Marvin Kay -- Plains woodland / Ann Mary Johnson and Alfred E. Johnson -- Central Plains tradition / Terry L. Steinacher and Gayle F. Carlson -- Middle Missouri tradition / R. Peter Winham and F.A. Calabrese -- Coalescent tradition / Craig M. Johnson -- Oneota tradition / Dale R. Henning -- Southern Plains villagers / Richard R. Drass -- Late High Plains hunters / Jeffrey R. Hanson -- Euro-American archaeology / Douglas D. Scott.