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Book Synopsis The Native Population of the Americas in 1492 by : William M. Denevan
Download or read book The Native Population of the Americas in 1492 written by William M. Denevan and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William M. Denevan writes that, "The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 112 million in 1492, while others estimate the population to have been as low as eight million. In any case, the native population declined to less than six million by 1650. In this collection of essays, historians, anthropologists, and geographers discuss the discrepancies in the population estimates and the evidence for the post-European decline. Woodrow Borah, Angel Rosenblat, William T. Sanders, and others touch on such topics as the Indian slave trade, diseases, military action, and the disruption of the social systems of the native peoples. Offering varying points of view, the contributors critically analyze major hemispheric and regional data and estimates for pre- and post-European contact. This revised edition features a new introduction by Denevan reviewing recent literature and providing a new hemispheric estimate of 54 million, a foreword by W. George Lovell of Queen's University, and a comprehensive updating of the already extensive bibliography. Research in this subject is accelerating, with contributions from many disciplines. The discussions and essays presented here can serve both as an overview of past estimates, conflicts, and methods and as indicators of new approaches and perspectives to this timely subject.
Book Synopsis Archaeological Overview of the Northern Channel Islands Including Santa Barbara Island by : Michael A. Glassow
Download or read book Archaeological Overview of the Northern Channel Islands Including Santa Barbara Island written by Michael A. Glassow and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash Peoples in the Channel Islands and the Santa Monica Mountains by : Sally McLendon
Download or read book Cultural Affiliation and Lineal Descent of Chumash Peoples in the Channel Islands and the Santa Monica Mountains written by Sally McLendon and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ethnohistory and Archaeology by : J. Daniel Rogers
Download or read book Ethnohistory and Archaeology written by J. Daniel Rogers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating both archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence, this volume reexamines the role played by native peoples in structuring interaction with Europeans. The more complete historical picture presented will be of interest to scholars and students of archaeology, anthropology, and history.
Book Synopsis An Archaeology of Abundance by : Kristina M. Gill
Download or read book An Archaeology of Abundance written by Kristina M. Gill and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The islands of Alta and Baja California changed dramatically in the centuries after Spanish colonists arrived. Native populations were decimated by disease, and their lives were altered through forced assimilation and the cessation of traditional foraging practices. Overgrazing, overfishing, and the introduction of nonnative species depleted natural resources severely. Most scientists have assumed the islands were also relatively marginal for human habitation before European contact, but An Archaeology of Abundance reassesses this long-held belief, analyzing new lines of evidence suggesting that the California islands were rich in resources important to human populations. Contributors examine data from Paleocoastal to historic times that suggest the islands were optimal habitats that provided a variety of foods, fresh water, minerals, and fuels for the people living there. Botanical remains from these sites, together with the modern resurgence of plant communities after the removal of livestock, challenge theories that plant foods had to be imported for survival. Geoarchaeological surveys show that the islands had a variety of materials for making stone tools, and zooarchaeological data show that marine resources were abundant and that the translocation of plants and animals from the mainland further enhanced an already rich resource base. Studies of extensive exchange, underwater forests of edible seaweeds, and high island population densities also support the case for abundance on the islands. Concluding that the California islands were not marginal environments for early humans, the discoveries presented in this volume hold significant implications for reassessing the ancient history of islands around the world that have undergone similar ecological transformations. A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson
Book Synopsis The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California by : Sherburne Friend Cook
Download or read book The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California written by Sherburne Friend Cook and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California" is a historical book on the area that embraces the east shore of San Francisco Bay and its hinterland, including what is now Alameda and Contra Costa counties. The book considers the tribal groups inhabiting this territory.
Book Synopsis Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution by : Stephen Shennan
Download or read book Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution written by Stephen Shennan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an integrative approach to the application of evolutionary theory in studies of cultural transmission and social evolution and reveals the enormous range of ways in which Darwinian ideas can lead to productive empirical research, the touchstone of any worthwhile theoretical perspective. While many recent works on cultural evolution adopt a specific theoretical framework, such as dual inheritance theory or human behavioral ecology, Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution emphasizes empirical analysis and includes authors who employ a range of backgrounds and methods to address aspects of culture from an evolutionary perspective. Editor Stephen Shennan has assembled archaeologists, evolutionary theorists, and ethnographers, whose essays cover a broad range of time periods, localities, cultural groups, and artifacts.
Book Synopsis The Prehistory of Home by : Jerry D. Moore
Download or read book The Prehistory of Home written by Jerry D. Moore and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Prehistory of Home addresses a topic of widely shared interest, and provides easy-to-understand evidence and well-argued interpretations. Jerry Moore is deft with words, phrasing, and building arguments, shifting effortlessly between antiquity and today while keeping the themes of home and prehistory clear. Alongside the rigorous archaeological and scientific research, Moore's wit and personality shine throughout."—Wendy Ashmore, coauthor of Household and Community in the Mesoamerican Past
Book Synopsis The California Indians by : Robert F. Heizer
Download or read book The California Indians written by Robert F. Heizer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, expanded edition of The California Indians is a more comprehensive and thus more useful book than its predecessor, which first appeared in 1951 and was reprinted seven times. The editors have combined the selections, eighteen of which are new, into a general survey of California Indian native cultures. They have avoided highly technical studies because they intend their book for the general reading public rather than for scholars. The editors discuss the present-day Indians of California in a chapter written especially for this volume, and provide a new, extensive classified bibliography listing hundreds of published works arranged by culture areas and subjects. This list of references should prove useful to the nonprofessional who wishes to read further on a particular tribal culture or topic, such as Indian basketry or place-names or prehistoric rock art.
Book Synopsis North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence by : Richard J. Chacon
Download or read book North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence written by Richard J. Chacon and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book presents clear evidence—from multiple academic disciplines—that indigenous populations engaged in warfare and ritual violence long before European contact.
Book Synopsis The Way the Wind Blows by : Roderick J. McIntosh
Download or read book The Way the Wind Blows written by Roderick J. McIntosh and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Robert W. Harms, Yale University
Book Synopsis The Chumash World at European Contact by : Lynn H. Gamble
Download or read book The Chumash World at European Contact written by Lynn H. Gamble and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Chumash World at European Contact is a major achievement that will be required reading and a fundamental reference in a variety of disciplines for years to come."—Thomas C. Blackburn, editor of December's Child: A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives "An extremely valuable synthesis of the historical, ethnographic, and archaeological record of one of the most remarkable populations of Native Californians."—Glenn J. Farris, Senior Archaeologist, California State Parks Department
Book Synopsis Human Biologists in the Archives by : D. Ann Herring
Download or read book Human Biologists in the Archives written by D. Ann Herring and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the 'field' is not an exotic locale but the sometimes dusty back rooms of libraries, archives and museums. These largely untapped resources however reveal how the study of human biology through historical documents can expand the horizons of anthropological research.
Download or read book Troubled Times written by David W. Frayer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence amassed in Troubled Times indicates that, much like in the modern world, violence was not an uncommon aspect of prehistoric dispute resolution. From the civilizations of the American Southwest to the Mesolithic of Central Europe, the contributors examine violence in hunter-gatherer as well as state societies from both the New and Old Worlds. Drawing upon cross-cultural analyses, archaeological data, and skeletal remains, this collection of papers offers evidence of domestic violence, homicide, warfare, cannibalism, and ritualized combat among ancient peoples. Beyond the physical evidence, various models and explanations for violence in the past are explored.
Book Synopsis The Formation of Complex Society in Southeastern Mesoamerica by : William R. Fowler, Jr.
Download or read book The Formation of Complex Society in Southeastern Mesoamerica written by William R. Fowler, Jr. and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-08-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents discussions on the formation of complex society of Southeastern Mesoamerica throughout pre-Columbian times. These societies include ones from the Early Preclassic or Formative period to those encountered by the Spaniards when they arrived in the early 16th century. Diverse classes of data from archaeology, ethnography, and ethnohistory are utilized. The book provides wide spatial and temporal coverage, as well as a wide diversity of theoretical perspectives. Anyone interested in archeology or the evolution of prehistoric complex societies will find this book fascinating.
Book Synopsis La Purisíma Concepción by : Michael R. Hardwick
Download or read book La Purisíma Concepción written by Michael R. Hardwick and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In two centuries, La Purísima Concepción went from a fledgling frontier mission to a renowned California State Historic Park. Once home to many Spanish soldiers, settlers and hundreds of Chumash Indians, La Purísima held the seat of the California Mission government under Father Mariano Payeras. It withstood catastrophic events, including widespread disease in early years and a great Southern California earthquake in 1812. Emerging from ruins for the last time in 1934, after restoration by the Civilian Conservation Corps, structures appear today as they did in the early nineteenth century. The uniquely restored California Mission complex operates as a state park in a pastoral setting. Author and archivist Michael R. Hardwick chronicles the story of La Purísima and the resilient people and culture that made a lasting influence.
Book Synopsis Social Dimensions of Chumash Mortuary Populations in the Santa Monica Mountains Region by : Patricia Carol Martz
Download or read book Social Dimensions of Chumash Mortuary Populations in the Santa Monica Mountains Region written by Patricia Carol Martz and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
