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Phase Ii Archaeological Investigations At Sites 41bx254 41bx256 41bx1628 And 41bx1621 Within The Historical Mission Reach Project Area San Antonio Bexar County Texas
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Download or read book Geoarchaeology written by A. M. Pollard and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 1999 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geology and archaeology have a long history of fruitful collaborations stretching back to the early 19th century. Geoarchaeology - the application of the geosciences to solve research problems in archaeology - has now emerged as a recognised sub-discipline of archaeology, especially in the United States. traditionally, the methods used include geomorphology, sedimentology, pedology, and stratigraphy, reflecting the fact that most archaeological evidence is recovered from the sedimentary environment. as reflected in the sub-title, this volume embraces a broader definition, including geophysics and geochemistry.
Book Synopsis Precolumbian Water Management by : Lisa Joyce Lucero
Download or read book Precolumbian Water Management written by Lisa Joyce Lucero and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among ancient Mesoamerican and Southwestern peoples, water was as essential as maize for sustenance and was a driving force in the development of complex society. Control of water shaped the political, economic, and religious landscape of the ancient Americas, yet it is often overlooked in Precolumbian studies. Now one volume offers the latest thinking on water systems and their place within the ancient physical and mental language of the region. Precolumbian Water Management examines water management from both economic and symbolic perspectives. Water management facilities, settlement patterns, shrines, and water-related imagery associated with civic-ceremonial and residential architecture provide evidence that water systems pervade all aspects of ancient society. Through analysis of such data, the contributors seek to combine an understanding of imagery and the religious aspects of water with its functional components, thereby presenting a unified perspective of how water was conceived, used, and represented in ancient greater Mesoamerica. The collection boasts broad chronological and geographical coverageÑfrom the irrigation networks of Teotihuacan to the use of ritual water technology at Casas GrandesÑthat shows how procurement and storage systems were adapted to local conditions. The articles consider the mechanisms that were used to build upon the sacredness of water to enhance political authority through time and space and show that water was not merely an essential natural resource but an important spiritual one as well, and that its manipulation was socially far more complex than might appear at first glance. As these papers reveal, an understanding of materials associated with water can contribute much to the ways that archaeologists study ancient cultural systems. Precolumbian Water Management underscores the importance of water management research and the need to include it in archaeological projects of all types.
Book Synopsis Formation Processes in Archaeological Context by : Paul Goldberg
Download or read book Formation Processes in Archaeological Context written by Paul Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Environmental Archaeology by : Dena F. Dincauze
Download or read book Environmental Archaeology written by Dena F. Dincauze and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-17 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologists today need a wide range of scientific approaches in order to delineate and interpret the ecology of their sites. Dena Dincauze has written an authoritative and essential guide to a variety of archaeological methods, ranging from techniques for measuring time with isotopes and magnetism to the sciences of climate reconstruction, geomorphology, sedimentology, soil science, paleobotany and faunal paleoecology. Professor Dincauze insists that borrowing concepts from other disciplines demands a critical understanding of their theoretical roots. Moreover, the methods that are chosen must be appropriate to particular sets of data. The applications of the methods needed for an holistic human-ecology approach in archaeology are illustrated by examples ranging from the Paleolithic, through classical civilizations, to recent urban archaeology.
Book Synopsis Before the Volcano Erupted by : Payson D. Sheets
Download or read book Before the Volcano Erupted written by Payson D. Sheets and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an August evening around AD 600, residents of the Ceren village in the Zapotitan Valley of what is now El Salvador were sitting down to their nightly meal when ground tremors and loud steam emissions warned of an impending volcanic eruption. The villagers fled, leaving their town to be buried under five meters of volcanic ash and forgotten until a bulldozer uncovered evidence of the extraordinarily preserved town in 1976. The most intact Precolumbian village in Latin America, Ceren has been called the "Pompeii of the New World." This book and its accompanying CD-ROM and website (ceren.colorado.edu) present complete and detailed reports of the excavations carried out at Ceren since 1978 by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists, ethnographers, volcanologists, geophysicists, botanists, conservators, and others. The book is divided into sections that discuss the physical environment and resources, household structures and economy, special buildings and their uses, artifact analysis, and topical and theoretical issues. As the authors present and analyze Ceren's houses and their goods, workshops, civic and religious buildings, kitchen gardens, planted fields, and garbage dumps, a new and much clearer picture of how commoners lived during the Maya Classic Period emerges. These findings constitute landmark contributions to the anthropology and archaeology of Central America.
Book Synopsis Seeking a Richer Harvest by : Tina Thurston
Download or read book Seeking a Richer Harvest written by Tina Thurston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subsistence intensification, innovation and change have long figured prominently in explanations for the development of social complexity among foragers and horticulturalists. This set of global case studies re-examines the ‘subsistence question’ in light of recent research. It contrasts traditional approaches with recent archaeological research that presents human driven strategies for power, prestige, and status as causes of subsistence intensification.
Book Synopsis Iron Age and Roman Burials in Champagne by : Ian Mathieson Stead
Download or read book Iron Age and Roman Burials in Champagne written by Ian Mathieson Stead and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reports on the excavation of a series of six Iron Age cemeteries in Champagne, France. All the cemeteries were located by their distinctive ditched enclosures which served as the focus of each burial group.
Download or read book The Varga Site written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Biennial Report for ... by : Museum Archaeology Program (Wisconsin Historical Society)
Download or read book Biennial Report for ... written by Museum Archaeology Program (Wisconsin Historical Society) and published by . This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
