History of the Native People of Canada


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Volume two examines such developments as the replacement of the earlier spearthrower by the bow and arrow, the introduction of pottery from the south, the importance of communal hunting of bison on the Plains, and the appearance of ranked societies on the West Coast.




Archaeological Geology of North America


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This volume covers the geological aspects of archaeology from both regional and topical perspectives in an attempt to reflect the diverse and heterogeneous nature of archaeological geology. of the 28 chapters, some are site-specific archaeological investigations that typify a variety of other sites. Others summarize the archaeological geology of re




BC Studies


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Canadiana


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A History of the Native People of Canada


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This volume begins with the spread of Ice Age hunters across a land mass that once joined Asia and North America at a time when most of the country was covered by glacial ice and when animals such as mammoth and sabre-toothed cats occupied the tundra and lichen woodlands.




Names and Dates


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Skeena River Prehistory


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Complex Hunter Gatherers


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A broad synthesis of the archaeology of the Plateau region of the Pacific Northwest and the evolution and organization of the complex hunter-gatherers in general.




The Passage of Arms


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A new paperback edition of Richard Bradley's study of the fine objects that were so often buried in hoards or deposited in watery locations such as rivers or bogs. Richard Bradley brings his views up-to-date and answers some of his critics in a new introduction.