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Author : William S. Webb
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572331679
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Indian Knoll written by William S. Webb and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Knoll. No description available.
Author : R. Barry Lewis
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185351
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Kentucky Archaeology written by R. Barry Lewis and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentucky's rich archaeological heritage spans thousands of years, and the Commonwealth remains fertile ground for study of the people who inhabited the midcontinent before, during, and after European settlement. This long-awaited volume brings together the most recent research on Kentucky's prehistory and early history, presenting both an accurate descriptive and an authoritative interpretation of Kentucky's past. The book is arranged chronologically—from the Ice Age to modern times, when issues of preservation and conservation have overtaken questions of identification and classification. For each time slice of Kentucky's past, the contributors describe typical communities and settlement patterns, major changes from previous cultural periods, the nature of the economy and subsistence, artifacts, the general health and characteristics of the people, and regional cultural differences. Sites discussed include the Green River shell mounds, the Central Kentucky Adena mounds and enclosures, Eastern Kentucky rockshelters, the important Wickliffe site at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, Fort Ancient culture villages, and the fortified towns of the Mississippian period in Western Kentucky. The authors draw from a wealth of unpublished material and offer the detailed insights and perspectives of specialists who have focused much of their professional careers on the scientific investigation of Kentucky's prehistory. The book's many graphic elements—maps, artifact drawings, photographs, and village plans—combined with a straightforward and readable text, provide a format that will appeal to the general reader as well as to students and specialists in other fields who wish to learn more about Kentucky's archaeology.
Author : Darcy F. Morey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113978871X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (397 download)
Download or read book Dogs written by Darcy F. Morey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the evolution of the dog, from its origins about 15,000 years ago up to recent times. The timing of dog domestication receives attention, with comparisons between different genetics-based models and archaeological evidence. Allometric patterns between dogs and their ancestors, wolves, shed light on the nature of the morphological changes that dogs underwent. Dog burials highlight a unifying theme of the whole book: the development of a distinctive social bond between dogs and people; the book also explores why dogs and people relate so well to each other. Though cosmopolitan in overall scope, the greatest emphasis is on the New World, with an entire chapter devoted to dogs of the arctic regions, mostly in the New World. Discussion of several distinctive modern roles of dogs underscores the social bond between dogs and people.
Author : Guy E. Gibbon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136801790
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America written by Guy E. Gibbon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Did prehistoric humans walk to North America from Siberia? Who were the inhabitants of the spectacular Anasazi cliff dwellings in the Southwest and why did they disappear? Native Americans used acorns as a major food source, but how did they get rid of the tannic acid which is toxic to humans? How does radiocarbon dating work and how accurate is it? Written for the informed lay person, college-level student, and professional, Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia is an important resource for the study of the earliest North Americans; including facts, theories, descriptions, and speculations on the ancient nomads and hunter-gathers that populated continental North America.
Author : Stuart J. Fiedel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521425445
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (254 download)
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.
Author : Harry J. Shafer
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826322043
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Mimbres Archaeology at the NAN Ranch Ruin written by Harry J. Shafer and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following two decades of excavations and research at the NAN Ranch Ruin in southwestern New Mexico, Harry Shafer offers new information and interpretations of the rise and disappearance of the ancient Mimbres culture that thrived in the area from about A.D. 600 to 1140. The NAN Ranch site gives evidence of a fascinating restructuring of Mimbres culture and society, owing to the introduction of irrigation agriculture in the late ninth century. The social restructuring that accompanied this shift in technology resulted in changes that are visible in architecture, mortuary practices, and ceramic decoration. The NAN Ranch ruin has yielded the largest body of evidence ever gathered at a single Mimbres site and thus offers the clearest picture to date of who the ancient Mimbreños were in relation to their Anasazi and Hohokam neighbors to the north and east. Shafer introduces us to the Mimbres people, gives a history of archaeological research in the Mimbres Valley, and traces the occupation of the NAN Ranch site from pithouses to classic pueblo to abandonment. Social customs, subsistence, biological information, and the symbolism of the distinctive Mimbres designs in their ceramics, pottery, stone artifacts, textiles, and jewelry are all addressed in this comprehensive survey.
Author : Lewis R. Binford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135153128X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Archeology in Cultural Systems written by Lewis R. Binford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archeology shares with other anthropological sciences the goal of explaining differences and similarities among cultural systems. Sally R. Binford and Lewis R. Binford, therefore are concerned with theory and arguments which treat problems of the interrelationship of cultural variables with explanatory value. Archeology in Cultural Systems is devoted to four different aspects of archeology.This book progresses from theoretical-methodological discussions to specific consideration of archeological materials. It focuses on the analysis of archeological remains from a single site. Its concern is primarily with recognizing, measuring and explaining variability in the form and distribution of a site's cultural remains. The authors argue that internal variability derives from the composition and distribution of societal segments represented at the site. The work then shifts to study of archeological components (or their attributes) and seeks explanations for observed differences and similarities. A final section of the volume comments and discusses materials in the volume.Archeology in Cultural Systems is not a monolithic presentation of any particular school of archeological thought. There are common interests and many points of agreement among the authors, but there is also diversity of opinion on several points. These points are the focus of research here.
Author : Richard Jefferies
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817355413
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley written by Richard Jefferies and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley addresses the approximately 7,000 years of the prehistory of eastern North America, termed the Archaic Period by archaeologists.
Author : Richard I. Ford
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN 13 : 0915703017
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric Food Production in North America written by Richard I. Ford and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Richard I. Ford explains in his preface to this volume, the 1980s saw an “explosive expansion of our knowledge about the variety of cultivated and domesticated plants and their history in aboriginal America.” This collection presents research on prehistoric food production from Ford, Patty Jo Watson, Frances B. King, C. Wesley Cowan, Paul E. Minnis, and others.
Author : Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052183869X
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Bioarchaeology written by Clark Spencer Larsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A synthetic treatment of the study of human remains from archaeological contexts for current and future generations of bioarchaeologists.
Author : Robert D. Hoppa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139441558
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Paleodemography written by Robert D. Hoppa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paleodemography is the field of enquiry that attempts to identify demographic parameters from past populations (usually skeletal samples) derived from archaeological contexts, and then to make interpretations regarding the health and well-being of those populations. However, paleodemographic theory relies on several assumptions that cannot easily be validated by the researcher, and if incorrect, can lead to large errors or biases. In this book, physical anthropologists, mathematical demographers and statisticians tackle these methodological issues for reconstructing demographic structure for skeletal samples. Topics discussed include how skeletal morphology is linked to chronological age, assessment of age from the skeleton, demographic models of mortality and their interpretation, and biostatistical approaches to age structure estimation from archaeological samples. This work will be of immense importance to anyone interested in paleodemography, including biological and physical anthropologists, demographers, geographers, evolutionary biologists and statisticians.
Author : Kenneth Charles Carstens
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817308059
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Of Caves and Shell Mounds written by Kenneth Charles Carstens and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1996-04-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays offer new evidence to dispute the assumption that ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America changed little until Mesoamerican influences stimulated important developments.
Author : Robert L. Hall
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066023
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)
Download or read book An Archaeology of the Soul written by Robert L. Hall and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The richness and the range of Native American spirituality has long been noted, but it has never been examined so thoroughly, nor with such an eye for the amazing interconnectedness of Indian tribal ceremonies and practices, as in An Archaeology of the Soul. In this monumental work, destined to become a classic in its field, Robert Hall traces the genetic and historical relationships of the tribes of the Midwest and Plains--including roots that extend back as far as 3,000 years. Looking beyond regional barriers, An Archaeology of the Soul offers new depths of insight into American Indian ethnography. Hall uncovers the lineage and kinship shared by Native North Americans through the perspectives of history, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, biological anthropology, linguistics, and mythology. The wholeness and panoramic complexity of American Indian belief has never been so fully explored--or more deeply understood.
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic Names
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Utah Geographic Names written by Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Damaged and Threatened National Historic Landmarks written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817310185
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Tennessee, Green, and Lower Ohio Rivers Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore written by Clarence Bloomfield Moore and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2002-07-17 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oversized reprint volume presents original materials from Moore's northernmost expeditions conducted in the early 1900s as he surveyed areas of potential archaeological interest in the southeastern United States. Some of the sites he found were later targeted for major excavations during the days of the WPA/CCC. Many National Register Historic Sites are today located along the rivers he explored in this work. In many cases, however, Moore's report documents sites since destroyed by river action or by lake impoundments behind hydroelectric dams or by looters. As with all of Moore's other in.
Author : Edwin A. Lyon
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817307915
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book A New Deal for Southeastern Archaeology written by Edwin A. Lyon and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizing primary sources that include correspondence and unpublished reports, Lyon demonstrates the great importance of the New Deal projects in the history of southeastern and North American archaeology. New Deal archaeology transformed the practice of archaeology in the Southeast and created the basis for the discipline that exists today.
