Villages and Wetlands Adaptations in the Northern Great Basin
Author : Albert C. Oetting
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Abert, Lake (Or. : Region)
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Author : Albert C. Oetting
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Abert, Lake (Or. : Region)
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Author : Donald Grayson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0520267478
"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.
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Great Basin
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Author : Guy E. Gibbon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1020 pages
File Size : 33,24 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.
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Archaeological surveying
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Page : 346 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Geology
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Author : C. Melvin Aikens
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
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Author : Malcolm Lillie
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 35,17 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN :
For the past thirty years or so, wetlands have been at the forefront of developments in understanding past cultural activity and associated landscapes. Waterlogged environments and contexts not only preserve the organic part of the cultural record, but they also provide an archive of the environmental conditions pertaining at the time the deposits form, thereby allowing the detailed reconstruction of their associated environments and landscapes.
Author : Joel C. Janetski
Publisher : Occasional Papers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Nature
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Most of the papers in this volume were presented at the Twenty-First Great Basin Anthropological Conference (GBAC) held in Park City in 1988. The theme of the conference was wetlands studies in the Great Basin.
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Page : 624 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 1997
Category : California
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