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Prehistoric America

Author : Miles Barton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300098198
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric America written by Miles Barton and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the icy Arctic vastness to the steamy tropical swamps of Florida, people came upon a teeming variety of animals in North America after the Ice Age. The book travels the continent region by region, introducing fascinating and bizarre beasts including ground sloths, glyptodonts, mastodons, mammoths, saber-toothed and scimitar-toothed cats, and the short-faced bear. Alongside these now-extinct animals were lions, cheetahs, zebras, and camels - animals that have long since disappeared from their North American homes - as well as species still seen today, such as caribou, grizzlies, eagles, salmon, bison, coyotes, prairie dogs, condors, alligators, and jaguars." "A wealth of fossil evidence informs the stunning computer-generated panoramas that fill the pages of the volume. Bones of the ancient beasts again have flesh and fur, unfamiliar animals again roam the landscapes, and the world of prehistoric North America comes startlingly to life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Prehistoric America

Author : Betty Meggers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351496980
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric America written by Betty Meggers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past 30 years, the relationship between humans and the environment has changed more drastically than during any previous period in human history. Local sustainable exploitation of natural resources has been overridden by global interests indifferent to the detrimental impact of their activities on local environments and their inhabitants. Increasingly efficient technology has reduced the need for human labor, but improved medical treatment favors reproduction and survival, creating a growing imbalance between population density and food supply. Rapid transportation is introducing alien species to distant terrestrial and aquatic environments, where they displace critical elements in the local food chain.This succinct and profusely illustrated volume applies evolutionary and cultural theory to the interpretation of prehistoric cultural development in the western hemisphere. After reviewing cultural development in Mesoamerica and the central Andes, Meggers examines adaptation in North and South American regions with similar environments to evaluate the influence of adaptive constraints on cultural content.What made the human species dominant on the planet is the substitution of cultural behavior for biological behavior. Prehistoric Americans applied this ability to develop sustainable relationships with their environments. Many succeeded and others did not. Paleoclimatic reconstructions can be compared with archeological sequences and ethnographic descriptions to identify cultural behavior responsible for the difference. Comparison of the responses of Amazonians and Mayans to episodes of severe drought provides useful insights into what we are doing wrong.

Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoric America

Author : Frank Joseph
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1591439817
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoric America written by Frank Joseph and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The examination of four great civilizations that existed before Columbus’s arrival in North America offers evidence of sustained contact between the Old and New Worlds • Describes the cultural splendor, political might, and incredibly advanced technology of these precursors to our modern age • Shows that North America’s first civilization, the Adena, was sparked by ancient Kelts from Western Europe and explores links between Hopewell Mound Builders and prehistoric Japanese seafarers Before Rome ruled the Classical World, gleaming stone pyramids stood amid smoking iron foundries from North America’s Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi River. On its east bank, across from today’s St. Louis, Missouri, flourished a walled city more populous than London was one thousand years ago, with a pyramid larger--at its base--than Egypt’s Great Pyramid. During the 12th century, hydraulic engineers laid out a massive irrigation network spanning the American Southwest that, if laid end to end, would stretch from Phoenix, Arizona, to the Canadian border. On a scale to match, they built a five-mile-wide dam from ten million cubic yards of rock. While Europe stumbled through the Dark Ages, a metropolis of weirdly shaped, multistory superstructures, precisely aligned to the sun and moon, sprawled across the New Mexico Desert. Who was responsible for such colossal achievements? Where did their mysterious builders come from, and what became of them? These are some of the questions investigated by Frank Joseph in his examination of ancient influences at work on our continent. He reveals that modern civilization is not the first to arise in North America but was preceded instead by four high cultures that rose and fell over the past three thousand years: the Adena, Hopewell, Mississippian, and Anasazi-Hohokam. How they achieved greatness and why they vanished so completely are the intriguing enigmas explored by this unconventional prehistory of our country, Advanced Civilizations of Prehistoric America.

Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America

Author : Timothy G. Baugh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475762313
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America written by Timothy G. Baugh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique volume, archaeologists examine the changing economic structure of trade in North America over a period of 6,000 years. Organined by geographical and chronological divisions, each chapter focuses on trade in one of nine regions from the Arachiac through the late prehistoric period. Each contribution explores neighboring areas to llustrate the complexity of North American exchange. By charting the econmic structure of these regions, archaeologists, economic anthropologists, and economic geographers gain greater insight into the dynamics of North American trade and exchange on a continental wide basis.

A Prehistory of South America

Author : Jerry D. Moore
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1492013323
Total Pages : 823 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book A Prehistory of South America written by Jerry D. Moore and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 823 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and begining graduate studens in anthropology. For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers to rulers and residents of colossal cities. In the process, native South American societies made advancements in agriculture and economic systems and created great works of art—in pottery, textiles, precious metals, and stone—that still awe the modern eye. Organized in broad chronological periods, A Prehistory of South America explores these diverse human achievements, emphasizing the many adaptations of peoples from a continent-wide perspective. Moore examines the archaeologies of societies across South America, from the arid deserts of the Pacific coast and the frigid Andean highlands to the humid lowlands of the Amazon Basin and the fjords of Patagonia and beyond. Illustrated in full color and suitable for an educated general reader interested in the Precolumbian peoples of South America, A Prehistory of South America is a long overdue addition to the literature on South American archaeology.

Prehistoric America

Author : Anne Terry White
Publisher : New York : Random House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric America written by Anne Terry White and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1951 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America before the Indians reached its shores. Grades 6-8.

Prehistoric America

Author : Stephen Denison Peet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric America written by Stephen Denison Peet and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prehistoric America

Author : Betty Meggers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351496999
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric America written by Betty Meggers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past 30 years, the relationship between humans and the environment has changed more drastically than during any previous period in human history. Local sustainable exploitation of natural resources has been overridden by global interests indifferent to the detrimental impact of their activities on local environments and their inhabitants. Increasingly efficient technology has reduced the need for human labor, but improved medical treatment favors reproduction and survival, creating a growing imbalance between population density and food supply. Rapid transportation is introducing alien species to distant terrestrial and aquatic environments, where they displace critical elements in the local food chain.This succinct and profusely illustrated volume applies evolutionary and cultural theory to the interpretation of prehistoric cultural development in the western hemisphere. After reviewing cultural development in Mesoamerica and the central Andes, Meggers examines adaptation in North and South American regions with similar environments to evaluate the influence of adaptive constraints on cultural content.What made the human species dominant on the planet is the substitution of cultural behavior for biological behavior. Prehistoric Americans applied this ability to develop sustainable relationships with their environments. Many succeeded and others did not. Paleoclimatic reconstructions can be compared with archeological sequences and ethnographic descriptions to identify cultural behavior responsible for the difference. Comparison of the responses of Amazonians and Mayans to episodes of severe drought provides useful insights into what we are doing wrong.

Prehistoric America

Author : Stephen Denison Peet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric America written by Stephen Denison Peet and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prehistoric America

Author : Jean-François-Albert du Pouget marquis de Nadaillac
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817352724
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric America written by Jean-François-Albert du Pouget marquis de Nadaillac and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the settling of the New World, word spread throughout Europe of the native inhabitants, their artifacts, communities, and culturals. Prehistoric America by Marquis de Nadaillac is a prime example of a classic work of the period that addressed the antiquity of humans in the New World, drawing upon the full range of scientific data compiled on the inhabitants and their cultures. The proximity of human remains with those of extinct animals was still a very recent finding, even in the Old World. Nadaillac's early attempts at cross-cultural comparison and theoretical explanations make this wor.

Prehistoric America

Author : Betty Jane Meggers
Publisher : AldineTransaction
ISBN 13 : 0202368122
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric America written by Betty Jane Meggers and published by AldineTransaction. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural parallels between widely separated but environmentally similar regions are often extraordinary, yet these parallels are discounted by anthropologists on the basis that they ignore a large mass of less similar data. Too often cultural parallels between distant regions have been taken for granted rather than recognized as phenomena that need to be explained. The thesis of Prehistoric America is that they are neither fortuitous nor inconsequential, but an indication of the strength of environmental pressures on cultural development. This work is an excellent introduction to the prehistoric cultures of North and South America, one that will help the reader to discover and enjoy the intellectual adventure of archeology.

Decolonizing "prehistory"

Author : Gesa Mackenthun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816542291
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Decolonizing "prehistory" written by Gesa Mackenthun and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decolonizing "Prehistory"critically examines and challenges the paradoxical role that modern historical-archaeological scholarship plays in adding legitimacy to, but also delegitimizing, contemporary colonialist practices. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this volume empowers Indigenous voices and offers a nuanced understanding of the American deep past.

Prehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change

Author : Paul A. Delcourt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521662702
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric Native Americans and Ecological Change written by Paul A. Delcourt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the importance of prehistoric human activities in the ecology of eastern North America, and its implications for conservation today.

Prehistoric America: cliff dwellers and Pueblos (1899)

Author : Stephen Denison Peet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Prehistoric America: cliff dwellers and Pueblos (1899) written by Stephen Denison Peet and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Across Atlantic Ice

Author : Dennis J. Stanford
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520949676
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Across Atlantic Ice written by Dennis J. Stanford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter traditional—and often subjective—approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness. The authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago.

Prehistory of the Americas

Author : Stuart J. Fiedel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521425445
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Prehistory of the Americas written by Stuart J. Fiedel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-05-29 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiedel's book exploring the development of the prehistoric cultures of North, Central and South America from about 10,000 BC to AD 1530 has been updated to include discussion of recent discoveries and analyses of their implications. Prehistory of the Americas examines archaeological evidence of the earliest human migration from Asia to the New World; the rapid expansion of Paleo-Indian hunters; the adaptations of archaic hunter-gatherers to post-Ice Age life; the origins and spread of farming and village life; and the rise and fall of chiefdoms and states. The author describes how different regions in the New World evolved, affected by a variety of factors ranging from technological developments to climate change. He compares the evolution of New World prehistory with that of Old World cultures. Discussion of the development of American archaeology, from the early European encounters with native Americans to the 'new' archaeology, is also included.

Prehistoric America

Author : Anne Terry White
Publisher : New York : Random House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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