Author : James L Phillips
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315433524
This volume reports on a series of multidisciplinary projects involving the Archaic period of the American Midwest. A period of innovation and technical achievement, the articles focus on changes in environmental, social, and economic factors operating in this period, and the adaptation of the hunter gatherer peoples living at this time.
Author : Sarah Ward Neusius
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Thomas E. Emerson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 895 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 143842700X
Essential overview of American Indian societies during the Archaic period across central North America.
Author : RABIGER
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2014-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1483299236
Prehistoric Hunters-Gatherers : The Emergence of Cultural Complexity
Author : Richard Jefferies
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0817355413
Holocene Hunter-Gatherers of the Lower Ohio River Valley addresses the approximately 7,000 years of the prehistory of eastern North America, termed the Archaic Period by archaeologists.
Author : Brian Hayden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2014-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1316061353
In this book, Brian Hayden provides the first comprehensive, theoretical work on the history of feasting in pre-industrial societies. As an important barometer of cultural change, feasting is at the forefront of theoretical developments in archaeology. The Power of Feasts chronicles the evolution of the practice from its first perceptible prehistoric presence to modern industrial times. This study explores recurring patterns in the dynamics of feasts as well as linkages to other aspects of culture such as food, personhood, cognition, power, politics, and economics. Analyzing detailed ethnographic and archaeological observations from a wide variety of cultures, including Oceania and Southeast Asia, the Americas, and Eurasia, Hayden illuminates the role of feasts as an invaluable insight into the social and political structures of past societies.
Author : George R. Milner
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,16 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0500775451
Brought up to date with the latest research, The Moundbuilders is the definitive visual guide to North America’s eastern region and the societies that forever changed its landscape. Hailed by Bruce D. Smith, curator of North American archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution, as “without question the best available book on the pre-Columbian . . . societies of eastern North America,” this wide-ranging and richly illustrated volume covers the entire prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands and the thousands of earthen mounds that can be found there, built between 3100 BCE and 1600 CE. The second edition of The Moundbuilders has been brought fully up-to-date, with the latest research on the peopling of the Americas, including more coverage of pre-Clovis groups, new material on Native American communities in the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries CE, and new narratives of migration drawn from ancient and modern DNA. Far-reaching and illustrated throughout, this book is the perfect visual guide to the region for students, tourists, archaeologists, and anyone interested in ancient American history.
Author : George H. Odell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 22,2 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1489901736
Lithic analysts have been criticized for being atheoretical in their approach, or at least for not contributing to building archaeological theory. This volume redresses that balance. In Stone Tools, renowned lithic analysts employ explicitly theoretical constructs to explore the archaeological record and use the lithic database to establish its points. Chapters discuss curation, design theory, replacement of stone with metal, piece refitting, and projectile point style.
Author : Lane Anderson Beck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 23,83 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1489913106
In this volume, archaeologists offer a new direction for burial research by expanding the models for mortuary analysis from a site-specific to a regional level. Contributors explore how regional mortuary approaches allow the introduction of new questions about peer polity interactions and regional alliances-extending traditional settlement system and exchange analyses. This volume features case studies examining mortuary sites as components of the archaeological landscape.
Author : Maxine McBrinn
Publisher : Arizona State Museum
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
The mobile hunters and gatherers of the Archaic Southwest were members of at least three different kinds of social groups: bands, endogamous marriage groups, and a risk-sharing economic network. By comparing the geographic distributions of conological and technological style in cordage, sandals, and projectile points, it is possible to distinguish marriage groups from the larger economic networks. Using artifacts from Bat Cave, Tularosa Cave, and Cordova Cave in the New Mexico Mogollon and from Fresnal Shelter in the Tularosa Basin, this research demonstrated that technological style in fiber artifacts is more geographically constrained than iconological style in sandals or projectile points, indicating that although the bands using these rock shelters came from different marriage groups, they participated in the same risk-sharing economic network.
