Some Phases of Prehistoric Archaeology
Author : George Grant MacCurdy
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Cave paintings
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Author : George Grant MacCurdy
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Cave paintings
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Author : Chris Gosden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0198803516
Recent archaeological discoveries from China and central Asia have changed our understanding of how human civilization developed in the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history. In this new edition of his Very Short Introduction, Chris Gosden explores the current theories on the ebb and flow of human cultural variety.
Author : John J. Shea
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1107006988
This book surveys the archaeological record for stone tools from the earliest times to 6,500 years ago in the Near East.
Author : Thomas David Thiessen
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,72 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Ethnohistory
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Author : Thomas David Thiessen
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Ethnohistory
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Author : Guy E. Gibbon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1136801790
First published in 1998. Did prehistoric humans walk to North America from Siberia? Who were the inhabitants of the spectacular Anasazi cliff dwellings in the Southwest and why did they disappear? Native Americans used acorns as a major food source, but how did they get rid of the tannic acid which is toxic to humans? How does radiocarbon dating work and how accurate is it? Written for the informed lay person, college-level student, and professional, Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia is an important resource for the study of the earliest North Americans; including facts, theories, descriptions, and speculations on the ancient nomads and hunter-gathers that populated continental North America.
Author : David L Browman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2002-02-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0817311289
In this landmark book, experienced scholars take a retrospective look at the developing routes that have brought American archaeologists into the 21st century. In 1996, the Society for American Archaeology's Committee on the History of Archaeology established a biennial symposium named after Gordon R. Willey, one of the fathers of American archaeology, to focus on the history of the discipline. This volume grew out of the second symposium, presented at the 1998 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Interest in the intellectual history of the field is certainly nothing new-the first such volume appeared in 1856-but previously, focus has been on individuals and their theories and methods, or on various government agencies that supported, developed, or mandated excavations in North America. This volume, however, focuses on the roots of Americanist archaeology, including its pre-1915 European connections, and on some of the earliest work by women archaeologists, which has been largely overlooked. Full of valuable insights for archaeologists and anthropologists—both professional and amateur—into the history and development of Americanist archaeology, New Perspectives will also inspire and serve as a model for future research. David Browman is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology at Washington University. Stephen Williams is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Harvard University.
Author : University of Chicago. Oriental Institute
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN :
Robert J. Braidwood set out with his wife Linda in the spring of 1948 to explore the field evidence for the transition from hunter-gatherer way of life to sedentary food production in the region surrounding the Mesopotamian Plain. This initial work started many archaeologists thinking about how the processes that lay behind this fundamental change, and ultimately other transitions, could be documented archaeologically. His pioneering effort to introduce specialists from the geological and biological sciences into work on relevant problems in this transition brought about a new set of standards for fieldwork in the Near East and a new appreciation of the richness of the multidimensional archaeological record that can result from these studies. This volume is the final report on the Braidwoods' initial phase of exploration from 1948 to 1955 in the Chemchemal Valley and adjacent regions of Iraqi Kurdistan. In this sense it is a work that can be viewed as the result of a study begun at a transition within archaeology itself, from the goals and techniques of the period between the wars to the methods and purposes that characterize the discipline at present. Approximately half the volume is devoted to reports on the architecture and artifacts recovered during three seasons of work at Jarmo, the first early village site with aceramic levels excavated in the Near East. Substantial sections are also devoted to reports on the earlier aceramic site of Karim Shahir and the later (Halafian) site of Banahilk. [From a review by Arthur J. Jelinek in the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 265 (1987) 87-88].
Author : Timothy K. Perttula
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 28,50 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 : Deborah M. Pearsall
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 2382 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Antiquities
ISBN : 9780125480314
The Encyclopedia of Archaeology encompasses all aspects of archaeology, including the nature and diversity of archaeology as a scientific discipline, the practice of archaeology, archaeology in the everyday world, and the future of the discipline. Featured in the Encyclopedia of Archaeology are articles by leading authors that summarize archaeological knowledge at the beginning the 21st century, highlighting important sites and issues, and tracing the development of prehistoric cultures around the globe.