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Book Synopsis Chronometric Dating in Archaeology by : R.E. Taylor
Download or read book Chronometric Dating in Archaeology written by R.E. Taylor and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since World War II, there has been tremendous success in the development of new methods for dating artifacts; the so-called `radiocarbon revolution' was only the first such discovery. The increasing accuracy of the various new techniques has brought about major changes in archaeological research strategies. This important new text compiles the work of some of today's most innovative archaeologists who summarize progress in their respective techniques over the last 30 years - with an emphasis on developments of the last five - and the status of current research.
Book Synopsis The House of the Bacabs, Copán, Honduras by : David L. Webster
Download or read book The House of the Bacabs, Copán, Honduras written by David L. Webster and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1989 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorie Reents-Budet, Curator, Pre-Columbian Art, Duke University Museum of Art, Claude Baudez, William Fash Jr., Berthold Riese, William Sanders, and David Webster contribute to this monograph, and using an integrated art historical and anthropological approach, consider the House of the Bacabs' context as an elite Maya structure, its excavation and restoration, and its iconographic and epigraphic reconstruction and interpretation, to establish models for understanding Classic Maya social and political life.
Book Synopsis Mimbres Life and Society by : Patricia A. Gilman
Download or read book Mimbres Life and Society written by Patricia A. Gilman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thousand years ago, village farmers in the Mimbres Valley of what is now southwestern New Mexico created stunning black-on-white pottery. Mimbres pottery has added a fascinating dimension to southwestern archaeology, but it has also led to the partial or total destruction of most Mimbres sites. The Mimbres Foundation, in one of the few modern investigations of a Mimbres pueblo, excavated the Mattocks site, containing about 180 surface rooms in addition to pit structures. Mimbres Life and Society details the Mattocks site’s architecture and artifacts, and it includes 160 figures, showing more than 400 photographs of painted vessels from the site. Mimbres pueblos, as early examples of people using surface room blocks, are ideal for investigating questions about how and why people moved from earlier subterranean pit structures to aboveground room blocks. The authors consider the number of households living at the site before and after the transition, as well as the lack of evidence for subsistence intensification and population growth as causes of this transition. These analyses suggest that each room block on the site housed a single family as opposed to multiple families, the more common interpretation. There were not necessarily more households on the site during the Classic period than earlier. Patricia A. Gilman and Steven A. LeBlanc spent five seasons excavating at the Mattocks site and many more analyzing and writing about Mattocks site data. They note that subtle social differences among people were at play, and they emphasize that the Mattocks site may be unique among Mimbres pueblos in many aspects. Mimbres Life and Society reveals broad-ranging implications for southwestern archaeologists and anyone interested in understanding the ancient Southwest and early village societies.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Archaeology by : Neil Asher Silberman
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Archaeology written by Neil Asher Silberman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transactions of the American Philosophical Society by :
Download or read book Transactions of the American Philosophical Society written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1966 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Skeletal Biology of the Ancient Rapanui (Easter Islanders) by : Vincent H. Stefan
Download or read book Skeletal Biology of the Ancient Rapanui (Easter Islanders) written by Vincent H. Stefan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disseminating what is currently known about the skeletal biology of the ancient Rapanui and placing it within the wider context of Polynesian skeletal variation, this volume is the culmination of over thirty years of research into the remotely inhabited Easter Island. Compiling osteological data deriving from Rapanui skeletal remains into one succinct analysis, this book demonstrates how the application of modern skeletal biology research techniques can effectively be employed to address questions of human population origins and microevolution. Craniometrics and DNA analysis are used to provide indications as to Rapanui ancestral lineage. Evidence is presented in a user-friendly manner to allow researchers and graduates to critically analyse the current knowledge of prehistoric Rapanui skeletal variation. An important resource providing valuable evidence from human biology that modifies earlier archaeological and cultural anthropological views, this book will stimulate further research into the Rapanui.
Book Synopsis Majorville Cairn and Medicine Wheel Site, Alberta by : James M. Calder
Download or read book Majorville Cairn and Medicine Wheel Site, Alberta written by James M. Calder and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Majorville is a large cairn located in the centre of a medicine wheel, situated south of Bassano, Alberta, on the banks of the Bow River. Stratigraphic excavation indicates initial construction in Oxbow times, with additional accretions ending in the Historic Period. Cultural continuity in ritual practice in the Plains over a period of 5,000 years is thus established.
Book Synopsis Central California Coastal Prehistory by : Terry L Jones
Download or read book Central California Coastal Prehistory written by Terry L Jones and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 1995-12-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pseira VII by : Philip P. Betancourt
Download or read book Pseira VII written by Philip P. Betancourt and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard B. Seager excavated the Minoan cemetery at Pseira in 1907, but the work was never published. The Temple University excavations (1985-1994) under the direction of Philip P. Betancourt and Costis Davaras conducted an intensive surface survey of the cemetery area, cleaned and drew plans of all visible tombs, and excavated tombs that had not been previously excavated. The results of the cemetery excavations on the small island off the northeast coast of Crete are published in two volumes. Pseira VII presents the results from the excavation and cleaning of the 19 tombs that still exist at the Pseira cemetery. The cemetery is remarkable for the diversity of its tomb types. Burials were in cist graves built of vertical slabs (a class with Cycladic parallels), in small tombs constructed of fieldstones, in house tombs, and in jars. Burials were communal, as is usual in Minoan cemeteries. Artifacts included clay vases, stone vessels, obsidian, bronze tools, jewelry, and other objects.
Book Synopsis Report on Chilean University Life by :
Download or read book Report on Chilean University Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ancient Maya by : Heather McKillop
Download or read book The Ancient Maya written by Heather McKillop and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to powerful innovations in archaeology and other types of historical research, we now have a picture of everyday life in the Mayan empire that turns the long-accepted conventional wisdom on its head. Ranging from the end of the Ice Age to the flourishing of Mayan culture in the first millennium to the Spanish conquest in the 16th century, The Ancient Maya takes a fresh look at a culture that has long held the public's imagination. Originally thought to be peaceful and spiritual, the Mayans are now also known to have been worldly, bureaucratic, and violent. Debates and unanswered questions linger. Mayan expert Heather McKillop shows our current understanding of the Maya, explaining how interpretations of "dirt archaeology," hieroglyphic inscriptions, and pictorial pottery are used to reconstruct the lives of royalty, artisans, priests, and common folk. She also describes the innovative focus on the interplay of the people with their environments that has helped further unravel the mystery of the Mayans' rise and fall.
Book Synopsis The Skyband Group, Copán Honduras by : David Webster
Download or read book The Skyband Group, Copán Honduras written by David Webster and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Skyband Group is an impressive elite site in the urban core of Copán, Honduras, which is dominated by the palatial compounds of Maya sub-royal nobles. Such grandees often bore court titles showing that they were clients and officials of kings, but also competitors for political power, especially just before the dynastic collapse around AD 800.
Book Synopsis The Archaeology Of West And Northwest Mesoamerica by : Michael S Foster
Download or read book The Archaeology Of West And Northwest Mesoamerica written by Michael S Foster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on recent archaeological surveys and excavations, the chapters in this volume provide current, comprehensive, area-by-area summaries of the region's Precolumbian past. Research in the last two decades has indicated that the evolution and adaptations of the indigenous cultures of the region parallel those found elsewhere in Mesoamerica, from the simple Formative groups to the complex states of the North. The topics discussed in the book--areal and cultural syntheses and specific problems such as chronology, social organization, and economic systems--present much new information crucial to the understanding of cultural variations in Mesoamerica.
Book Synopsis Corporate Descent Group Structure in Easter Island Prehistory by : Christopher Moore Stevenson
Download or read book Corporate Descent Group Structure in Easter Island Prehistory written by Christopher Moore Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin by :
Download or read book U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Origins of Southwestern Agriculture by : R. G. Matson
Download or read book The Origins of Southwestern Agriculture written by R. G. Matson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a new model for the origins of Basketmaker II culture based on the evolution of maize use, focusing on the changes in maize growing rather than on the changes in, or to, the people involved.
Book Synopsis Isotopic Ages and Stratigraphy of Cenozoic Rocks of the Marysvale Volcanic Field and Adjacent Areas, West-central Utah by : Peter D. Rowley
Download or read book Isotopic Ages and Stratigraphy of Cenozoic Rocks of the Marysvale Volcanic Field and Adjacent Areas, West-central Utah written by Peter D. Rowley and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
