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Book Synopsis Projectile Technology by : Heidi Knecht
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.
Book Synopsis Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of California and the Great Basin by : Noel D. Justice
Download or read book Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of California and the Great Basin written by Noel D. Justice and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-23 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noel Justice adds another regional guide to his series of important reference works that survey, describe, and categorize the projectile point and cutting tools used in prehistory by Native American peoples. This volume addresses the region of California and the Great Basin. Written for archaeologists and amateur collectors alike, the book describes over 50 types of stone arrowhead and spear points according to period, culture, and region. With the knowledge of someone trained to fashion projectile points with techniques used by the Indians, Justice describes how the points were made, used, and re-sharpened. His detailed drawings illustrate the way the Indians shaped their tools, what styles were peculiar to which regions, and how the various types can best be identified. There are hundreds of drawings, organized by type cluster and other identifying characteristics. The book also includes distribution maps and color plates that will further aid the researcher or collector in identifying specific periods, cultures, and projectile types.
Author :William Jack Hranicky Publisher :AuthorHouse ISBN 13 :1452017557 Total Pages :498 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book written by William Jack Hranicky and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Material Culture from Prehistoric Virginia: Volume 2 is one volume of a two-volume set. This two-volume set is available in black and white and in color. Volume 1 contains artifact listings from A through L. Volume 2 contains the remainder of the alphabetical listings. These publications contain over 10,000 prehistoric artifacts mainly from Virginia, but the publication covers the eastern U. S. The set starts with Pre-Clovis and goes through Woodland times with some Indian ethnography and rockart. Each volume is indexed, contains references, has charts and graphs, drawings, photographs, artifact dates, and artifact descriptions. These volumes contain artifacts that have never appeared in the archaeological literature. From beginners to experienced archaeologists, they offer a complete library for the American Indian culture and experience. If the prehistoric Indian made it, an example is probably shown.
Book Synopsis North American Projectile Points by : Wm Jack Hranicky RPA
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.
Book Synopsis Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians by : Ellen Sue Turner
Download or read book Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians written by Ellen Sue Turner and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas. This third edition boasts twice as many illustrations—all drawn from actual specimens—and still includes charts, geographic distribution maps and reliable age-dating information. The authors also demonstrate how factors such as environment, locale and type of artifact combine to produce a portrait of theses ancient cultures.
Book Synopsis Gowen Sites: Cultural Responses to Climatic Warming on the Northern Plains (7500-5000 B.C.) by : Ernest Gordon Walker
Download or read book Gowen Sites: Cultural Responses to Climatic Warming on the Northern Plains (7500-5000 B.C.) written by Ernest Gordon Walker and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis and description of archaeological materials from two Early Middle Period sites, Gowen 1 and Gowen 2, located in south central Saskatchewan. Descriptions of the physical and biotic environments, both past and present, are provided, as are detailed descriptions of various artifact assemblages and cultural features. Comparisons with 113 other archaeological sites situated throughout the Plains area are made and a discriminant function analysis of a series of Early Middle Prehistoric Period projectile points is carried out.
Book Synopsis Style and Function by : Teresa D. Hurt
Download or read book Style and Function written by Teresa D. Hurt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-10-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The topics of style and function within evolutionary archaeology have been the subject of great debate in the field of archaeology in general over the past two decades. Evolutionary archaeologists have a unique perspective on these concepts-one that has sometimes been misunderstood by archaeologists working within other theoretical perspectives. The dichotomy between style and function was first formulated in the late 1970s by Robert Dunnell and remains axiomatic within the theoretical perspective of evolutionary archaeology. The original definitions of style and function were grounded in biological evolutionary concepts regarding neutral variation versus variation that is subject to natural selection. Several chapters expand upon these concepts, and explore how Darwinian evolutionary theory may be used to understand the archaeological record. Other chapters demonstrate this application through empirical case studies. Dunnell provides a foreword introducing and re-examining his original thesis. This volume is the only text devoted to the topic of style and function within the literature of evolutionary archaeology. It provides not only theoretical discussions and augmentation, but also significant historical background regarding the development of the style/function distinction within archaeology. Moreover, it presents several case studies that provide examples of how evolutionary style and function may be applied to the prehistoric record.
Book Synopsis Mississippi Projectile Point Guide by : Samuel O. McGahey
Download or read book Mississippi Projectile Point Guide written by Samuel O. McGahey and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lithic Analysis at the Millennium by : Norah Moloney
Download or read book Lithic Analysis at the Millennium written by Norah Moloney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original research papers in the volume provide a broad review of current approaches to the study of lithic technology from the Palaeolithic to the present. The contributions address both with analytical techniques and interpretive issues. Collectively, they increase our understanding of issues such as tool function, means of production, raw material sourcing and exchange systems, and the evolution of human cognition, social organization and symbolic behavior.
Book Synopsis North American Projectile Points - Revised by : Wm Jack Hranicky Rpa
Download or read book North American Projectile Points - Revised written by Wm Jack Hranicky Rpa and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Archaeological Laboratory Methods by : Mark Q. Sutton
Download or read book Archaeological Laboratory Methods written by Mark Q. Sutton and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis North American Projectile Points by : Wm Jack Hranicky
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 :Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting Publisher :Cambridge University Press ISBN 13 :1107026466 Total Pages :319 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (7 download)
Book Synopsis Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory by : Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting
Download or read book Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory written by Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a byproduct of human behavior. The essays cover a range of topics, including human behavioral ecology, cultural transmission, phylogenetic analysis, macroevolution, and various applications of evolutionary ecology.
Book Synopsis Man, Models and Management by : Jeffrey H. Altschul
Download or read book Man, Models and Management written by Jeffrey H. Altschul and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Projectile Technology by : Heidi Knecht
Download or read book Projectile Technology written by Heidi Knecht and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-10-31 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging volume brings together the results of global research on weapon technology, hunting strategies, and technological organization spanning the Middle Paleolithic through the ethnographic present, and the geographical breadth of the five inhabited continents. Integrating archaeological, experimental, and ethnoarchaeological perspectives, the book paints a vibrant picture of the technological know-how, decision-making processes, and organizational logistics associated with hunters armed with spears or arrows. Unlike most works on archaeological subjects, the findings presented here are bound to neither time nor place, but are applicable in any context in which spears, bows, and/or arrows are in use.
Book Synopsis Unit Issues in Archaeology by : Ann Felice Ramenofsky
Download or read book Unit Issues in Archaeology written by Ann Felice Ramenofsky and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume emphasizes one aspect of scientific method: units of measure and their construction as applied to archaeology. Attributes, artifact classes, locational designations, temporal periods, sampling universes, culture stages, and geographic regions are all examples of constructed units.
Book Synopsis Lithics by : William Andrefsky (Jr.)
Download or read book Lithics written by William Andrefsky (Jr.) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive manual on stone artifact analysis, with detailed examples of how to measure, record and analyse stone tools and stone tool production debris. Logically ordered, clearly written and well illustrated, it is designed for students and professional archaeologists. The first section provides the necessary background information, introducing the reader to lithic raw materials, and the classification of stone artifacts, basic terminology and concepts. It goes on to discuss various methods and techniques of analysis. The final section presents detailed case studies of lithic analysis from different parts of the world, illustrating the actual application of the techniques and methods discussed earlier.
