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Author : Kelly R. McGuire
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Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Archaeological Investigations in the Southern Sierra Nevada written by Kelly R. McGuire and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy E. Gibbon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136801790
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America written by Guy E. Gibbon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Did prehistoric humans walk to North America from Siberia? Who were the inhabitants of the spectacular Anasazi cliff dwellings in the Southwest and why did they disappear? Native Americans used acorns as a major food source, but how did they get rid of the tannic acid which is toxic to humans? How does radiocarbon dating work and how accurate is it? Written for the informed lay person, college-level student, and professional, Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia is an important resource for the study of the earliest North Americans; including facts, theories, descriptions, and speculations on the ancient nomads and hunter-gathers that populated continental North America.
Author : Gregory G White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315419114
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book The Archaeological Survey Manual written by Gregory G White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governmental guidelines have forced a dramatic change in the practice of archaeological surveying in recent decades. In response to public and private development, surveying is needed to accurately inventory the cultural resources of a region and provide guidance for their preservation and management. Greg White and Tom King provide a handy introduction to students, field novices, and land managers on the strategies, methods, and logic of contemporary survey work. In addition to providing the legal and historical context for this endeavor the book provides a heavily illustrated, practical guide to conducting a survey to help beginners understand how it works in practice. This volume is perfect for an archaeological methods class, field school, or reference collection.
Author : Michael J. Moratto
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483277356
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book California Archaeology written by Michael J. Moratto and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California Archaeology provides a compilation of knowledge for archeologists who are not California specialists. This book explains important cultural events and patterns discovered archeologically. Organized into 11 chapters, this book begins with an overview of California's historic and ancient environments as well as the evidence of Pleistocene human activity. This text then examines the glacial and other environmental conditions that would have influenced the origins, adaptations, and spread of the earliest North Americans. Other chapters consider how California's past is relevant to a wider understanding of human behavior. This book discusses as well the perceptions of Central Coast and San Francisco Bay region prehistory that have changed rapidly as a result of intensive fieldwork performed to comply with environmental law. The final chapter deals with the data of historical linguistics, which indicate something of the cultural relationships and events that might have occurred in the past. This book is a valuable resource for archeologists.
Author : Michael B Schiffer
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483214796
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory written by Michael B Schiffer and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 1 presents the progressive explorations in methods and theory in archeology. This book discusses the strategy for appraising significance, which is needed to maximize the preservation and wise use of cultural resources. Organized into 10 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of planning for the best long-term use of cultural resources, which is the essence of conservation archeology. This text then examines importance of the concept in cultural ecological studies. Other chapters consider the methods used in determining the density, size, and growth rate of human populations. This book discusses as well the use of demographic variables in archeological explanation. The final chapter deals with the decisions that must be made in designing a survey and to identify the alternative consequences for data recovery of various strategies. This book is a valuable resource for archeologists and planners.
Author : Jeanne E. Arnold
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 164642512X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)
Download or read book California’s Ancient Past written by Jeanne E. Arnold and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “California’s Ancient Past is an excellent introduction and overview of the archaeology and ancient peoples of this diverse and dynamic part of North America. Written in a concise and approachable format, the book provides an excellent foundation for students, the general public, and scholars working in other regions around the world. This book will be an important source of information on California’s ancient past for years to come.” —Torben C. Rick, Smithsonian Institution "California's Ancient Past is a well written, highly informative, and thought-provoking book; it will make a significant contribution to California archaeology. It is highly readable—the text and materials covered are suitable for both scholars and interested lay people. The book is well organized...with discussions about the culture history and theoretical perspectives of California archaeology and . . . the latest and most relevant references." —Kent Lightfoot, University of California, Berkeley “With California’s Ancient Past, Arnold and Walsh [offer] a well-written, interesting, and succinct archaeological summary of California from the terminal Pleistocene to historic contact.” —David S. Whitley, Journal of Anthropological Research
Author : PERISIC
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483294676
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Contexts for Prehistoric Exchange written by PERISIC and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contexts for Prehistoric Exchange
Author : Kathleen L. Hull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The 1984 Yosemite Archeological Surveys written by Kathleen L. Hull and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759108721
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)
Download or read book California Prehistory written by Terry L. Jones and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2007 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader of original synthesizing articles for introductory courses on archaeology and native peoples of California.
Author : Christopher Thomas Morgan
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Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Late Prehistoric Territorial Expansion and Maintenance in the South-central Sierra Nevada, California written by Christopher Thomas Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While logistically organized and sedentary hunter-gatherers have been characterized as more efficient resource exploiters with adaptive advantages over simpler, mobile foragers, the mobile Western Mono successfully migrated to the western slope of the south-central Sierra Nevada, California, outcompeting and displacing more sedentary groups some 600 years ago. They did so during a shift from benign, warm, and dry to marginal, cold, and wet environmental conditions. Assuming that settlement and subsistence behaviors are adaptive mechanisms that confer advantages (and disadvantages) to groups competing to occupy territory, this research focuses on reconstructing Western Mono settlement, transport, and storage behaviors in light of patchy montane resource distributions resulting from late Holocene climate change. This theoretical approach directs analysis towards reconstructing competitive hunter-gatherer subsistence behaviors during a period where when resources were particularly patchy with regard to time, space, and elevation. Such behaviors were those that best averaged temporal and spatial variability in resource availability. For the Mono, these behaviors were seasonal residential mobility and acorn transport and caching. Residential mobility effectively averaged resource base variability by bringing consumers to resources during peak environmental productivity. Transport of acorn to winter hamlets and high elevations was important to this strategy, bringing resources to consumers in winter and reducing uncertainty when entering resource-poor environments in summer. Dispersed and expedient acorn caching offset the temporal variability of resource availability. Acorn caches are distributed in efficient and risk-reducing logistical foraging radii that effectively provisioned lowland winter settlements. Caches not only sustained winter populations, but also facilitated spring and summer moves by providing reliable food stores near highland spring and summer camps. Combined, Mono transport, mobility, and storage effectively averaged pronounced spatial and temporal variance in the environment's production of key resources during the late Holocene neoglacial, behaviors ultimately leading to their successful migration and territorial maintenance. These findings ultimately imply that when hunter-gatherers compete; to occupy territory, behaviors thought of as simple, such as residential mobility and expedient technology, can confer competitive advantages to their practitioners and that the success or failure of competing behaviors is intrinsically linked to the ecological contexts in which they occur."--Abstract
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Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Kaweah River Basin Investigation, California, Tulare County and King County written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John C. Whittaker
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292792557
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Flintknapping written by John C. Whittaker and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flintknapping is an ancient craft enjoying a resurgence of interest among both amateur and professional students of prehistoric cultures. In this new guide, John C. Whittaker offers the most detailed handbook on flintknapping currently available and the only one written from the archaeological perspective of interpreting stone tools as well as making them. Flintknapping contains detailed, practical information on making stone tools. Whittaker starts at the beginner level and progresses to discussion of a wide range of techniques. He includes information on necessary tools and materials, as well as step-by-step instructions for making several basic stone tool types. Numerous diagrams allow the reader to visualize the flintknapping process, and drawings of many stone tools illustrate the discussions and serve as models for beginning knappers. Written for a wide amateur and professional audience, Flintknapping will be essential for practicing knappers as well as for teachers of the history of technology, experimental archaeology, and stone tool analysis.
Author : United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
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Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Kaweah River Basin Project, California written by United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard E. Hughes
Publisher : University of Utah Press
ISBN 13 : 1607812002
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Perspectives on Prehistoric Trade and Exchange in California and the Great Basin written by Richard E. Hughes and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the circumstances and conditions under which trade/exchange, direct access, and/or mobility best account for material conveyance across varying distances at different times in the past.
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Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Tule River Basin Investigation, Tulace and King Counties written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Eldorado National Forest (N.F.), Silver Pearl Land Exchange written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wm Jack Hranicky RPA
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456750003
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)
Download or read book North American Projectile Points written by Wm Jack Hranicky RPA and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a single-source for projectile points in the literature of American archeology. Its purpose is to provide a quick lookup for point types; the user then utilizes the basic references that are provided for more research information, point comparisons, data, distributions, etc.
