Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands West
Author : David Hurst Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Ethnoarchaeology
ISBN :
Author : David Hurst Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 10,47 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Ethnoarchaeology
ISBN :
Author : David Hurst Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 19,68 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Ethnoarchaeology
ISBN :
Author : David Hurst Thomas
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 1989-04-17
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : 9780874749083
The first of a three-volume set addressing the nature of European- Native American contact during the colonial period throughout the Spanish Borderlands--the northern rim of New Spain from California to Florida. Arrangement of the essays is according to region; the southwestern heartland, Texas and northeastern Mexico, and the Californias are in this volume. Regional overviews sketch the Native American context, the chronology of European involvement, and the history of anthropological inquiry in each area. Publication of the set is timed to precede the Columbian quincentenary observances of 1992. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : David Hurst Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Ethnoarchaeology
ISBN :
Author : Teresita Majewski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 2009-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0387720715
In studying the past, archaeologists have focused on the material remains of our ancestors. Prehistorians generally have only artifacts to study and rely on the diverse material record for their understanding of past societies and their behavior. Those involved in studying historically documented cultures not only have extensive material remains but also contemporary texts, images, and a range of investigative technologies to enable them to build a broader and more reflexive picture of how past societies, communities, and individuals operated and behaved. Increasingly, historical archaeology refers not to a particular period, place, or a method, but rather an approach that interrogates the tensions between artifacts and texts irrespective of context. In short, historical archaeology provides direct evidence for how humans have shaped the world we live in today. Historical archaeology is a branch of global archaeology that has grown in the last 40 years from its North American base into an increasingly global community of archaeologists each studying their area of the world in a historical context. Where historical archaeology started as part of the study of the post-Columbian societies of the United States and Canada, it has now expanded to interface with the post-medieval archaeologies of Europe and the diverse post-imperial experiences of Africa, Latin America, and Australasia. The 36 essays in the International Handbook of Historical Archaeology have been specially commissioned from the leading researchers in their fields, creating a wide-ranging digest of the increasingly global field of historical archaeology. The volume is divided into two sections, the first reviewing the key themes, issues, and approaches of historical archaeology today, and the second containing a series of case studies charting the development and current state of historical archaeological practice around the world. This key reference work captures the energy and diversity of this global discipline today.
Author : Timothy R. Pauketat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0190241098
The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology reviews the continent's first and last foragers, farmers, and great pre-Columbian civic and ceremonial centers, from Chaco Canyon to Moundville and beyond.
Author : Anne L. Grauer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1000820424
This book 1. explores current methods and techniques employed by paleopathologists as means to highlight the range of data that can be generated. 2. introduces a range of diseases and conditions that have been noted in the fossil, archaeological, and historical record, offering readers a foundational understanding of pathological conditions, along with their potential etiologies. 3. will be indispensable for archaeologists, bioarchaeologists and historians, and those in medical fields, as it reflects current scholarship within paleopathology and the field’s impact on our understanding of health and disease in the past, the present, and implications for our future.
Author : Timothy K. Perttula
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1603446494
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.
Author : Alistair Paterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315435721
A comprehensive textbook detailing the millennium of cultural contact between European societies and the rest of the world.
Author : J. Daniel Rogers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1489911154
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.