Author : Emil Walter Haury
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816505364
Re-edition, with new Preface offering recent insights, of the classic archaeological study which produced valuable findings on Hohokam perishable culture.
Author : E. Jane Rosenthal
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Archaeology
ISBN :
Author : Richard S. MacNeish
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826324054
This account of the archaeology of a cave in southern New Mexico makes a dramatic contribution to the ongoing debate over how long human beings have lived in the Americas. The findings presented here show that human settlement may go back as far as 75,000 years before the present, whereas the long-accepted Clovis dates showed humans only about 12,000 years ago. MacNeish and his colleagues subjected the cave, its environs, and its contents to rigorous interdisciplinary investigation. The first section of this volume comprises their reports on the changing environment of the area. The second section concentrates on the excavation of the cave's layers, presenting the results of radiocarbon dating and describing the evidence of human occupation, including friction skin prints and human hair. The third section discusses the cultural implications of the materials recovered and suggests how the ancient peoples may have exploited the changing environment and developed different ways of life throughout the Americas before the time of Clovis man. No serious discussion of early inhabitants in the New World can disregard the findings presented in this monumental work of scholarship.
Author : Emil W. Haury
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0816535264
"For a calculated 1,400 years, Snaketown was a viable village, but unlike so many tells in the Near East, the people remained the same while their culture changed. The smoothly graded typological sequences for most attributes suggest to me that the ethnic identity of the inhabitants was not interrupted, that they were one and the same people experiencing normal internal evolutionary cultural modifications with occasional boosts of features and ideas newly arrived from the outside." —Emil W. Haury
Author : James H. Gunnerson
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Archaeology
ISBN :
Author : Douglas R. Mitchell
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826334619
Prehistoric burial practices provide an unparalleled opportunity for understanding and reconstructing ancient civilizations and for identifying the influences that helped shape them.
Author : Noel D. Justice
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2002-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253108821
The American Southwest is the focus for this volume in Noel Justice's series of reference works that survey, describe, and categorize the projectile point and cutting tools used in prehistory by Native American peoples. Written for archaeologists and amateur collectors alike, the book describes over 50 types of stone arrowhead and spear points according to period, culture, and region. With the knowledge of someone trained to fashion projectile points with techniques used by the Indians, Justice describes how the points were made, used, and re-sharpened. His detailed drawings illustrate the way the Indians shaped their tools, what styles were peculiar to which regions, and how the various types can best be identified. There are hundreds of drawings, organized by type cluster and other identifying characteristics. The book also includes distribution maps and color plates that will further aid the researcher or collector in identifying specific periods, cultures, and projectile types.
Author : Mary Jane Berman
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Cibola National Forest (N.M.)
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : Charles Roger Nance
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292704275
On a remote mountainside 2,000 meters above sea level in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental, the rockshelter at La Calsada has yielded basic archaeological data for one of the least understood regions of prehistoric North America, the state of Nuevo Leon in northern Mexico. This comprehensive site report, with detailed information on artifacts and stratigraphy, provides baseline data for further explorations in the region and comparisons with other North American hunter-gatherer groups. Radiocarbon dating traces the earliest component at the site to 8600-7500 B.C., giving La Calsada arguably the earliest well-dated lithic complex in Mexico. Nance describes some 1,140 recovered stone tools, with comparisons to the archaeology of southern and southwestern Texas, as well as reported sites in Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo Leon, Mexico. From the lithic and stratigraphic analysis, Nance deduces occupational patterns at the site, beginning with Paleo-Indian cultures that lived in the area until about 7500 B.C. Through changes in tool technology, he follows the rise of the Abasolo tradition around 3000 B.C. and the appearance of a new culture with a radically different lithic industry around 1000 A.D.
