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Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Illustrated Catalogue of Archaeological Materials from Kamchatka in T.M. Dikova Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert K. Hitchcock
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 : 193877020X
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Information and Its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands written by Robert K. Hitchcock and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information and its Role in Hunter-Gatherer Bands explores the question of how information, broadly conceived, is acquired, stored, circulated, and utilized in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies, or bands. Given the nature of this question, the volume brings together a group of scholars from multiple disciplines, including archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, and evolutionary ecology. Each of these specialties deals with the question of information in different ways and with different sets of data given different primacy. The fundamental goal of the volume is to bridge disciplines and subdisciplines, open discussion, and see if some common ground-either theoretical perspectives, general principles, or methodologies-can be developed upon which to build future research on the role of information in hunter-gatherer bands.
Author : Erick Robinson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319644076
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change written by Erick Robinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this edited volume is to bring together a diverse set of analyses to document how small-scale societies responded to paleoenvironmental change based on the evidence of their lithic technologies. The contributions bring together an international forum for interpreting changes in technological organization - embracing a wide range of time periods, geographic regions and methodological approaches. As technology brings more refined information on ancient climates, the research on spatial and temporal variability of paleoenvironmental changes. In turn, this has also broadened considerations of the many ways that prehistoric hunter-gatherers may have responded to fluctuations in resource bases. From an archaeological perspective, stone tools and their associated debitage provide clues to understanding these past choices and decisions, and help to further the investigation into how variable human responses may have been. Despite significant advances in the theory and methodology of lithic technological analysis, there have been few attempts to link these developments to paleoenvironmental research on a global scale.
Author : Georg Wilhelm Steller
Publisher : Rasmuson Library Historical Tr
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Steller's History of Kamchatka written by Georg Wilhelm Steller and published by Rasmuson Library Historical Tr. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything was of interest to Georg Wilhelm Steller, the Russian Academy of Sciences naturalist on Vitus Bering's second Kamchatka expedition, which discovered Alaska in 1741. Steller composed this manuscript on Kamchatka in 1743 and 1744, but it was published in German only posthumously. This first English translation is most valuable for its extensive descriptions of the natural and human worlds that Steller found in the mid-eighteenth century. He describes over thirty species and two genera of fish, and numrous species of birds, for the first time. Observations of Kamchatka's Native peoples add to the small and invaluable collection of ethnographic and linguistic descriptions made during the initial acculturation process and the growth of a new economy based on the fur trade, which changed Native life forever. He makes unique observations of the economy of Kamchatka and the role of the Cossacks, and was the first scientist to suggest, based on direct observation, similarities in the ethnography and natural history of the Russian Far East and Alaska. Steller's breadth and depth in recording the natural and human world of eighteenth-century Alaska make this translation an important reference for readers interested in all aspects of North Pacific and Russian American history.
Author : Peter N. Peregrine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9780306462559
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Prehistory written by Peter N. Peregrine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents also defined by a somewhat different set of an attempt to provide basic information sociocultural characteristics than are eth on all archaeologically known cultures, nological cultures. Major traditions are covering the entire globe and the entire defined based on common subsistence prehistory of humankind. It is designed as practices, sociopolitical organization, and a tool to assist in doing comparative material industries, but language, ideology, research on the peoples of the past. Most and kinship ties play little or no part in of the entries are written by the world's their definition because they are virtually foremost experts on the particular areas unrecoverable from archaeological con and time periods. texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and The Encyclopedia is organized accord kinship ties are central to defining ethno ing to major traditions. A major tradition logical cultures. is defined as a group of populations sharing There are three types of entries in the similar subsistence practices, technology, Encyclopedia: the major tradition entry, and forms of sociopolitical organization, the regional sub tradition entry, and the which are spatially contiguous over a rela site entry. Each contains different types of tively large area and which endure tempo information, and each is intended to be rally for a relatively long period. Minimal used in a different way.
Author : William W. Fitzhugh
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ainu written by William W. Fitzhugh and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Some 55 scholars, mostly Japanese but with a considerable number from the US and Europe, write about the ethnicity, theories of origin, history, economies, art, religious beliefs, mythology, and other aspects of the culture of the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, now principally found in Hokkaido and smaller far northern islands. Hundreds of photographs and paintings, mostly in excellent quality color, show a wide variety of Ainu people, as well as clothing, jewelry, and various artifacts."--"Choice". "The most in-depth treatise available on Ainu prehistory, material culture, and ethnohistory." - "Library Journal".--Amazon.com (2001 ed, book description).
Author : Michael Chazan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780205953103
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (531 download)
Download or read book World Prehistory and Archaeology written by Michael Chazan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An integrated picture of prehistory as an active process of discovery. World Prehistory and Archaeology: Pathways through Time, third edition, provides an integrated discussion of world prehistory and archaeological methods. This text emphasizes the relevance of how we know and what we know about our human prehistory. A cornerstone of World Prehistory and Archaeology is the discussion of prehistory as an active process of discovery. Methodological issues are addressed throughout the text to engage readers. Archaeological methods are introduced in the first two chapters. Succeeding chapters then address the question of how we know the past to provide an integrated presentation of prehistory. The third edition involves readers in the current state of archaeological research, revealing how archaeologists work and interpret what they find. Through the coverage of various new research, author Michael Chazan shows how archaeology is truly a global discipline. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: * Gain new perspectives and insights into who we are and how our world came into being. * Think about humanity from the perspective of archaeology. * Appreciate the importance of the archaeological record for understanding contemporary society.
Author : Bruce B. Huckell
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826354831
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Clovis Caches written by Bruce B. Huckell and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A unique, significant contribution to our maturing studies of the Clovis era.”—Gary Haynes, author of The Early Settlement of North America: The Clovis Era The Paleoindian Clovis culture is known for distinctive stone and bone tools often associated with mammoth and bison remains, dating back some 13,500 years. While the term Clovis is known to every archaeology student, few books have detailed the specifics of Clovis archaeology. This collection of essays investigates caches of Clovis tools, many of which have only recently come to light. These caches are time capsules that allow archaeologists to examine Clovis tools at earlier stages of manufacture than the broken and discarded artifacts typically recovered from other sites. The studies comprising this volume treat methodological and theoretical issues including the recognition of Clovis caches, Clovis lithic technology, mobility, and land use.
Author : Renee Beauchamp Walker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803207646
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America written by Renee Beauchamp Walker and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays cast new light on Paleoindians, the first settlers of North America. Recent research strongly suggests that big-game hunting was but one of the subsistence strategies the first humans in the New World employed and that they also relied on foraging and fishing.
Author : Thomas E. Lodge
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781884015069
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Everglades Handbook written by Thomas E. Lodge and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1994-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The home of egrets, herons, ibises, and one of our greatest restoration challenges.
Author : Ted Goebel
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603443843
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book From the Yenisei to the Yukon written by Ted Goebel and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior? During the Pleistocene era, the people now known as Beringians dispersed across the varied landscapes of late-glacial northeast Asia and northwest North America. The twenty chapters gathered in this volume explore, in addition to the questions posed above, how Beringians adapted in response to climate and environmental changes. They share a focus on the significance of the modern-human inhabitants of the region. By examining and analyzing lithic artifacts, geoarchaeological evidence, zooarchaeological data, and archaeological features, these studies offer important interpretations of the variability to be found in the early material culture the first Beringians. The scholars contributing to this work consider the region from Lake Baikal in the west to southern British Columbia in the east. Through a technological-organization approach, this volume permits investigation of the evolutionary process of adaptation as well as the historical processes of migration and cultural transmission. The result is a closer understanding of how humans adapted to the diverse and unique conditions of the late Pleistocene.
Author : George C. Frison
Publisher : Utah George Frieson Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Fenn Cache written by George C. Frison and published by Utah George Frieson Institute. This book was released on 1999 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-authored by Bruce Bradley. Includes bibliography and glossary.
Author : Bernd Herrmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461243181
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Ancient DNA written by Bernd Herrmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient DNA refers to DNA which can be recovered and analyzed from clinical, museum, archaeological and paleontological specimens. Ancient DNA ranges in age from less than 100 years to tens of millions of years. The study of ancient DNA is a young field, but it has been revolutionized by the application of polymerase chain reaction technology, and interest is growing very rapidly. Fields as diverse as evolution, anthropology, medicine, agriculture, and even law enforcement have quickly found applications in the recovery of ancient DNA. This book contains contributions from many of the "first generation" researchers who pioneered the development and application of ancient DNA methods. Their chapters present the protocols and precautions which have resulted in the remarkable results obtained in recent years. The range of subjects reflects the wide diversity of applications that are emerging in research on ancient DNA, including the study of DNA to analyze kinship, recovery of DNA from organisms trapped in amber, ancient DNA from human remains preserved in a variety of locations and conditions, DNA recovered from herbarium and museum specimens, and DNA isolated from ancient plant seeds or compression fossils. Ancient DNA will serve as a valuable source of information, ideas, and protocols for anyone interested in this extraordinary field.
Author : Peter Jordan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315432366
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Ceramics Before Farming written by Peter Jordan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a truly international work that brings together different theories and material for the first time. Researchers and scholars studying the origins and dispersal of pottery, the prehistoric peoples or Eurasia, and flow of ancient technologies will all benefit from this book.
Author : Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Dikov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Archaeological Sites of Kamchatka, Chukotka, and the Upper Kolyma written by Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Dikov and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marek Zvelebil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521109574
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Hunters in Transition written by Marek Zvelebil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunters in Transition analyses the emergence of post-glacial hunter-gatherer communities and the development of farming.
Author : Frederick Hadleigh West
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226893990
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (939 download)
Download or read book American Beginnings written by Frederick Hadleigh West and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last Ice Age, a thousand-mile-wide land bridge connected Siberia and Alaska, creating the region known as Beringia. Over twelve thousand years ago, a procession of large mammals and the humans who hunted them crossed this bridge to America. Much of the Russian evidence for this migration has until now remained largely inaccessible to American scholars. American Beginnings brings together for the first time in one volume the most up-to-date archaeological and palaeoecological evidence on Beringia from both Russia and America. "An invaluable resource. . . . It will no doubt remain the key reference book for Beringia for many years to come."—Steven Mithen, Journal of Human Evolution "Extraordinary. The fifty-six contributors . . . represent the most prominent American and Russian researchers in the region."—Choice "Publication of this well-illustrated compendium is a great service to early American and especially Siberian Upper Paleolithic archaeology."—Nicholas Saunders, New Scientist "This is a great book . . . perhaps the greatest contribution to the archaeology of Beringia that has yet been published. . . . This is the kind of book to which archaeology should aspire."—Herbert D.G. Maschner, Antiquity
