Indian and Eskimo Artifacts of North America


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Captioned photographs depict over 2,000 examples of North American native-made and used artifacts.










Handbook of North American Indians: Arctic


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Encyclopedic summary of prehistory, history, cultures and political and social aspects of native peoples.







North American Indian and Eskimo Art and Artifacts


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Catalogue from an auction sale held in Seattle, March 22 and 23, 1980, which includes a collection of Alaskan crafts and artifacts.




Indians of North America


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The art of reconstructing civilizations from the artifacts of daily life demands integrity and imagination. Indians of North America displays both in its description of the enormous variation of culture patterns among Indians from the Arctic to Panama at the high points of their histories—a variation which was greater than that among the nations of Europe. For this second edition, Harold Driver made extensive revisions in chapter content and organization, incorporating many new discoveries and interpretations in archeology and related fields. He also revised several of the maps and added more than 100 bibliographical items. Since the publication of the first edition, there has been an increased interest in the activities of Indians in the twentieth century; accordingly, the author placed much more emphasis on this period.




The Indians and Eskimos of North America


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Books by and about the American and Canadian Indian and the Eskimo in print in 1972. Listing indicates price, binding, suitability for school children. Most fictional works are omitted.




HANDBK NA INDIAN V5 ARCTIC


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Combines history and anthropology to investigate the origins, development, cultures, religion, and social and political organization of the aboriginal peoples of North America




North American Projectile Points


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Jack Hranicky is a retired U.S. Government contractor, but he has been involved with archaeology as a full-time passion for over 40 years. His main interest is the Paleo-Indian period; however, he has worked in all facets of American archaeology. He has published over 250 papers and over 35 books in archaeology with his most recent being a two-volume, 800-page, 10,000-artifact book on the material culture of Virginia. In Virginia, he is considered an expert on prehistoric stone tools and rockart. The prehistoric Spout Run Observatory site was investigated by him which dated 10,470 YBP. He has served as president of the Archeological Society of Virginia (ASV) and Eastern States Archeological Federation (ESAF), and been past chairman of the Alexandria Archaeology Commission in Virginia. He is a charter member of the Registry of Professional Archaeologists (RPA). And, since he joined the Archeological Society of Virginia (ASV) in 1966, he is its senior member. And finally, his major publication is Bipoints Before Clovis.