History of Great Basin Anthropological Research
Author : Don D. Fowler
Publisher :
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
The Current Status of Anthropological Research in the Great Basin, 1964
Author : Warren L. D'Azevedo
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Anthropology
ISBN :
Book Description
These papers are concerned with the ethnohistory, linguistics, geographic foundations and environment of the Great Basin.
Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau
Author : Steven R Simms
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 2016-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1315434962
Book Description
Written to appeal to professional archaeologists, students, and the interested public alike, this book is a long overdue introduction to the ancient peoples of the Great Basin and northern Colorado Plateau. Through detailed syntheses, the reader is drawn into the story of the habitation of the Great Basin from the entry of the first Native Americans through the arrival of Europeans. Ancient Peoples is a major contribution to Great Basin archaeology and anthropology, as well as the general study of foraging societies.
The Great Basin
Author : Donald Grayson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0520267478
Book Description
"The Great Basin, centering on Nevada and including substantial parts of California, Oregon, and Utah, gets its name from the fact that none of its rivers or streams flow to the sea. This book synthesizes the past 25,000 years of the natural history of this vast region. It explores the extinct animals that lived in the Great Basin during the Ice Age and recounts the rise and fall of the massive Ice Age lakes that existed here. It explains why trees once grew 13' beneath what is now the surface of Lake Tahoe, explores the nearly two dozen Great Basin mountain ranges that once held substantial glaciers, and tells the remarkable story of how pinyon pine came to cover some 17,000,000 acres of the Great Basin in the relatively recent past. These discussions culminate with the impressive history of the prehistoric people of the Great Basin, a history that shows how human societies dealt with nearly 13,000 years of climate change on this often-challenging landscape"--Provided by publisher.
Models for the Millennium
Author : Charlotte Beck
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
Models for the Millennium presents an overview of the development and current practice of anthropology in the Great Basin. This volume includes such topics as historical issues; models for past and present anthropological and archaeological phenomena and cooperation among anthropologists, Native Americans, and government agencies. The volume includes four sections: "Historical Development"' describes the development of ethnology, archaeology, and paleoecology in the Great Basin. "Current Issues" covers topics in general theory, paleoecology, ethnography and linguistics, prehistory, and cultural resource management. "Models of Explanation" examines various approaches to modeling aspects of the archaeological, paleoecological, and ethnographic record in such areas as subsistence, mobility, iconography, and gender. Finally, "Models of Cooperation" discusses how anthropologists, Native Americans, and various agencies come to terms with such issues as burial and sacred sites, range blight, and the destruction of the archaeological record.
Man and Environment in the Great Basin
Author : David B. Madsen
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
Julian Steward and the Great Basin
Author : Richard O. Clemmer
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
He was also central in shaping basic anthropological constructs such as "hunter-gatherer" and "adaptation." But his fieldwork took place almost entirely in the Great Basin of California, Nevada, and Utah."--BOOK JACKET.
Archaeological Researches in the Northern Great Basin
Author : Luther S. Cressman
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Book Description
The Great Basin
Author : Catherine S. Fowler
Publisher : School for Advanced Research P
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781930618961
Book Description
This book is about a place, the Great Basin of western North America, and about the lifeways of Native American people who lived there during the past 13,000 years. The authors highlight the ingenious solutions people devised to sustain themselves in a difficult environment. The Great Basin is a semiarid and often harsh land, but one with life-giving oases. As the weather fluctuated from year to year, and the climate from decade to decade or even from one millennium to the next, the availability of water, plants, and animals also fluctuated. Only people who learned the land intimately and could read the many signs of its changing moods were successful. The evidence of their success is often subtle and difficult to interpret from the few and fragile remains left behind for archaeologists to discover. These ancient fragments of food and baskets, hats and hunting decoys, traps and rock art and the lifeways they reflect are the subject of this well-illustrated book.
Great Basin Indians
Author : Michael Hittman
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0874179106
Book Description
The Native American inhabitants of North America’s Great Basin have a long, eventful history and rich cultures. Great Basin Indians: An Encyclopedic History covers all aspects of their world. The book is organized in an encyclopedic format to allow full discussion of many diverse topics, including geography, religion, significant individuals, the impact of Euro-American settlement, wars, tribes and intertribal relations, reservations, federal policies regarding Native Americans, scholarly theories regarding their prehistory, and others. Author Michael Hittman employs a vast range of archival and secondary sources as well as interviews, and he addresses the fruits of such recent methodologies as DNA analysis and gender studies that offer new insights into the lives and history of these enduring inhabitants of one of North America’s most challenging environments. Great Basin Indians is an essential resource for any reader interested in the Native peoples of the American West and in western history in general.
