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Author : William J. Parry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Stone Technology on Northern Black Mesa, Arizona written by William J. Parry and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shirley Powell
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book People of the Mesa written by Shirley Powell and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Mesa, Arizona, has sheltered human beings for over 8000 years. For two decades, with the support and assistance of the Peabody Coal Company, archaeologists and other scientists have sought an understanding of how and why those ancient peoples lived as they did. Powell and Gumerman, the principal researchers of one of the largest and longest-running projects in the history of North American archaeology, recognize that only parts of past cultures survive to be discovered and analyzed, but they stress that the material items archaeologists do recover can tell us a great deal about the nonmaterial aspects of the culture in which they were used. In four cultural historical chapters Powell and Gumerman focus in turn on each of the major occupations of Black Mesa: the Archaic (6000 B.C.), Basketmaker II (ca. the time of Christ), Puebloan (A.D. 800-1150), and the Navajo (A.D. 1825 to the present). The 125 photographs, 41 line drawings by Thomas W. Gatlin, and 20 pages of full-color illustrations communicate the fascination of archaeological discovery and add an extra dimension to the authors' stories of ancient and modern life on Black Mesa.
Author : Shirley Powell
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816532877
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau written by Shirley Powell and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings by participants in the Black Mesa Archaeological Project offers a synthesis of Kayenta-area archaeology, examining the ancestral Puebloan and Navajo occupation of the Four Corners region, and analysing faunal, lithic, ceramic, chronometric, and human osteological data, to construct an account of the prehistory and ethnohistory of northern Arizona that demonstrates how organizational variation and other aspects of culture change are largely a response to a changing natural environment.
Author : George J. Gumerman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Papers on the Archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona written by George J. Gumerman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging collection of 13 papers on archaeological work conducted by members of the Black Mesa project from 1975-1981. Topics range from methodologies for connecting surface scatters to buried remains to discussions of the relationship between source distance and the conservation of chipped stone materials.
Author : Yorke M. Rowan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134949642
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book New Approaches to Old Stones written by Yorke M. Rowan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ground stone artefacts were widely used in food production in prehistory. However, the archaeological community has widely neglected the dataset of ground stone artefacts until now. 'New Approaches to Old Stones' offers a theoretical and methodological analysis of the archaeological data pertaining to ground stone tools. The essays draw on a range of case studies - from the Levant, Egypt, Crete, Anatolia, Mexico and North America - to examine ground stone technologies. From medieval Islamic stone cooking vessels and late Minoan stone vases, to the use of stone in ritual and as a symbol of luxury, 'New Approaches to Old Stones' offers a radical reassessment of the impact of ground-stone artefacts on technological change, production and exchange.
Author : Andrew L. Christenson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Excavations on Black Mesa, 1983 written by Andrew L. Christenson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heidi Knecht
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1489918515
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Projectile Technology written by Heidi Knecht and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artifacts linked to projectile technologies traditionally have provided the foundations for time-space systematics and cultural-historic frameworks in archaeological research having to do with foragers. With the shift in archae ological research objectives to processual interpretations, projectile technolo gies continue to receive marked attention, but with an emphasis on the implications of variability in such areas as design, function, and material as they relate to the broader questions of human adaptation. The reason that this particular domain of foraging technology persists as an important focus of research, I think, comes in three parts. A projectile technology was a crucial part of most foragers' strategies for survival, it was functionally spe cific, and it generally was fabricated from durable materials likely to be detected archaeologically. Being fundamental to meat acquisition and the principal source of calo ries, projectile technologies were typically afforded greater time-investment, formal modification, and elaboration of attributes than others. Moreover, such technologies tend to display greater standardization because of con straints on size, morphology, and weight that are inherent to the delivery system. The elaboration of attributes and standardization of form gives pro jectile technologies time-and space-sensitivity that is greater than most other foraging technologies. And such sensitivity is immensely valuable in archae ological research.
Author : George J. Gumerman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816513406
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book A View from Black Mesa written by George J. Gumerman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally! A modern book in the field of Southwestern archaeology that can be read, understood and enjoyed by everyone. ÑBooks of the Southwest "In clear and nontechnical language it provides readers with a synopsis of Anasazi prehistory and cultural ecology. ...Gumerman's work is especially useful for anyone seeking an on-site' introduction to some of the basic techniques and research orientations of modern American archaeology. Highly recommended for students and general readers." ÑChoice "It should be read with thoughtful care by the professional' archaeologist and ethnographer. And it will even more effectively serve the informed general reader, unconcerned with academic minutiae, through its fresh and direct exposition of the procedures, frustrations, and rewards of the calling." ÑThe Kiva "An outstanding success....a readable book that is suitable for professional archaeologists and the general public as well." ÑNorth American Archaeologist "A readable book that is suitable for professional archaeologists and the general public." ÑNorth American Archaeologist
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.
Author : Stephen Plog
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Spatial Organization and Exchange written by Stephen Plog and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using data from approximately 45square miles of land on Black Mesa, Arizona, this book explores culture changes--particularly population increases and decreases--between A.D. 800 and 1150. Analyzing one of the largest archaeological surveys in the American Southwest, these studies go beyond previous efforts to explain culture changes in five ways. First, several hundred sites discovered in the survey are dated through analysis of small characteristics of designs on pottery. Second, patterns of population change are reconstructed more accurately by using dates from these studies. Third, changes in settlement types and locations help explain subsistence strategies of prehistoric people. Fourth, design characteristics on pottery and the nature of raw materials used to manufacture ceramic vessels and stone tools provide new information on social networks and exchange ties. Finally, the data are synthesized, providing new explanations of culture change.
Author : Timothy K. Perttula
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603446494
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Prehistory of Texas written by Timothy K. Perttula and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paleoindians first arrived in Texas more than eleven thousand years ago, although relatively few sites of such early peoples have been discovered. Texas has a substantial post-Paleoindian record, however, and there are more than fifty thousand prehistoric archaeological sites identified across the state. This comprehensive volume explores in detail the varied experience of native peoples who lived on this land in prehistoric times. Chapters on each of the regions offer cutting-edge research, the culmination of years of work by dozens of the most knowledgeable experts. Based on the archaeological record, the discussion of the earliest inhabitants includes a reclassification of all known Paleoindian projectile point types and establishes a chronology for the various occupations. The archaeological data from across the state of Texas also allow authors to trace technological changes over time, the development of intensive fishing and shellfish collecting, funerary customs and the belief systems they represented, long-term changes in settlement mobility and character, landscape use, and the eventual development of agricultural societies. The studies bring the prehistory of Texas Indians all the way up through the Late Prehistoric period (ca. a.d. 700–1600). The extensively illustrated chapters are broadly cultural-historical in nature but stay strongly focused on important current research problems. Taken together, they present careful and exhaustive considerations of the full archaeological (and paleoenvironmental) record of Texas.
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Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Archaic Period Occupation, Chronostratigraphy, and Soil Geomorphology on the Southern Kaibito Plateau written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marion F. Smith
Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Function and Technology of Anasazi Ceramics from Black Mesa, Arizona written by Marion F. Smith and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George H. Odell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441990097
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Lithic Analysis written by George H. Odell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical volume does not intend to replace a mentor, but acts as a readily accessible guide to the basic tools of lithic analysis. The book was awarded the 2005 SAA Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis. Some focuses of the manual include: history of stone tool research; procurement, manufacture and function; assemblage variability. It is an incomparable source for academic archaeologists, cultural resource and heritage management archaeologists, government heritage agencies, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of archaeology focused on the prehistoric period.
Author : Wm Jack Hranicky
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496910664
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)
Download or read book North American Projectile Points written by Wm Jack Hranicky and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Hranicky is a retired U.S. Government contractor, but he has been involved with archaeology as a full-time passion for over 40 years. His main interest is the Paleo-Indian period; however, he has worked in all facets of American archaeology. He has published over 250 papers and over 35 books in archaeology with his most recent being a two-volume, 800-page, 10,000-artifact book on the material culture of Virginia. In Virginia, he is considered an expert on prehistoric stone tools and rockart. The prehistoric Spout Run Observatory site was investigated by him which dated 10,470 YBP. He has served as president of the Archeological Society of Virginia (ASV) and Eastern States Archeological Federation (ESAF), and been past chairman of the Alexandria Archaeology Commission in Virginia. He is a charter member of the Registry of Professional Archaeologists (RPA). And, since he joined the Archeological Society of Virginia (ASV) in 1966, he is its senior member. And finally, his major publication is Bipoints Before Clovis.
Author : Joseph A. Tainter
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429972210
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Evolving Complexity And Environmental Risk In The Prehistoric Southwest written by Joseph A. Tainter and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how and why prehistoric Southwestern societies changed in complexity, and offers important new perspectives on evolution of culture. It discusses the factors that made prehistoric Southwesterners vulnerable to an arid environment, and their strategies to lessen risk and stress.
Author : Richard S. MacNeish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Preliminary Investigations of the Archaic in the Region of Las Cruces, New Mexico written by Richard S. MacNeish and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
