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Author : James H. Gunnerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : WISC:89038486585
Author : Laura L. Scheiber,Bonnie J. Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131630167
Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains combines history, anthropology, archaeology, and geography to take a closer look at the relationships between land and people in this unique North American region. Focusing on long-term change, this book considers ethnographic literature, archaeological evidence, and environmental data spanning thousands of years of human presence to understand human perception and construction of landscape. The contributors offer cohesive and synthetic studies emphasizing hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers. Using landscape as both reality and metaphor, Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains explores the different and changing ways that people interacted with place in this transitional zone between the Rocky Mountains and the eastern prairies. The contemporary archaeologists working in this small area have chosen diverse approaches to understand the past and its relationship to the present. Through these ten case studies, this variety is highlighted but leads to a common theme - that the High Plains contains important locales to which people, over generations or millennia, return. Providing both data and theory on a region that has not previously received much attention from archaeologists, especially compared with other regions in North America, this volume is a welcome addition to the literature. Contributors: o Paul Burnett o Oskar Burger o Minette C. Church o Philip Duke o Kevin Gilmore o Eileen Johnson o Mark D. Mitchell o Michael R. Peterson o Lawrence Todd
Author : Douglas B. Bamforth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780521873468
This book uses archaeology to tell 15,000 years of history of the indigenous people of the North American Great Plains.
Author : Vance T. Holliday
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292784536
The Southern High Plains of northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico are rich in Paleoindian archaeological sites, including such well-known ones as Clovis, Lubbock Lake, Plainview, and Midland. These sites have been extensively researched over decades, not only by archaeologists but also by geoscientists, whose studies of soils and stratigraphy have yielded important information about cultural chronology and paleoenvironments across the region. In this book, Vance T. Holliday synthesizes the data from these earlier studies with his own recent research to offer the most current and comprehensive overview of the geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains during the earliest human occupation. He delves into twenty sites in depth, integrating new and old data on site geomorphology, stratigraphy, soils, geochronology, and paleoenvironments. He also compares the Southern High Plains sites with other sites across the Great Plains, for a broader chronological and paleoenvironmental perspective. With over ninety photographs, maps, cross sections, diagrams, and artifact drawings, this book will be essential reading for geoarchaeologists, archaeologists, and Quaternary geoscientists, as well as avocational archaeologists who take part in Paleoindian site study throughout the American West.
Author : Marcel Kornfeld,George C Frison,Mary Lou Larson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315422084
George Frison’s Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains has been the standard text on plains prehistory since its first publication in 1978, influencing generations of archaeologists. Now, a third edition of this classic work is available for scholars, students, and avocational archaeologists. Thorough and comprehensive, extensively illustrated, the book provides an introduction to the archaeology of the more than 13,000 year long history of the western Plains and the adjacent Rocky Mountains. Reflecting the boom in recent archaeological data, it reports on studies at a wide array of sites from deep prehistory to recent times examining the variability in the archeological record as well as in field, analytical, and interpretive methods. The 3rd edition brings the book up to date in a number of significant areas, as well as addressing several topics inadequately developed in previous editions.
Author : W. Raymond Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023053346
This synthesis of Great Plains archaeology brings together what is currently known about the inhabitants of the ancient Plains. The essays review the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Woodland, and Plains Village peoples, providing information on technology, diet, settlement and adaptive patterns.
Author : George C. Frison
Publisher : Emerald Group Pub Limited
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 012268561X
The Northwestern Plains is developing a unique and viable archeology, offering students choosing their future research topics in this exciting time a variety of possibilities. The entire area of the Northwestern Plains--mountains, foothills, and plains--has been a testing ground for human ingenuity. It provides an unusual opportunity to study more than 11,000 years of prehistroic hunting and gathering. Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains synthesizes what was a disparate body of data on the prehistory of the Northwestern Plains and presents it in rational and understandable terms. Key Features * Examines the prehistoric cultural chronology and the sources of the data for the Northwestern High Plains * Presents prehistoric hunting and gathering subsistence strategies for the Northwestern High Plains * Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of archaeology using the data from geology, soils, faunal analysis, pollen, and phytolith studies * Provides a methodology for data recovery
Author : Jack Brink
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781897425046
"At the place known as Head-Smashed-In in southwestern Alberta, Aboriginal people practiced a form of group hunting for nearly 6,000 years before European contact. The large communal bison traps of the Plains were the single greatest food-getting method ever developed in human history. Hunters, working with their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour, drove their quarry over a cliff and into wooden corrals. The rest of the group butchered the kill in the camp below
Author : James Gaskins
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781684560776
This text is meant to educate and help people with the identification of unusual stones fashioned by early man. Many of these stones are nothing short of true works of art, as you will see. In these pages are photographs and drawings of stones collected over thirty years, and four years to write this book—60,000 words and 318 photos and drawings to help you understand how ancient man used and really looked at a stone, and you will too. There's no book like this on earth!
Author : James H. Gunnerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : MINN:31951P00475005A
Author : Lawrence L Loendorf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315416724
This volume is the first summary and synthesis of the rock art of the American High Plains, from Archaic times to the historic period. Even more, it presents an engaging combination of Plains archaeology, rock art sites, and holistic archaeological research. This refreshing approach to rock art studies reminds us that archaeologists glean information from the whole site and everything that may have occurred there, rather than simply focusing on the images on stone. Clues to understanding rock art can be found in other images, in associated artifacts, and in ethnographic analogy. Archaeologists are shown how rock art integrates with other materials available for study. With each page, the reader will be engaged in a compelling, and comprehensive story that focuses equally on the art and the archaeology of the prehistoric plains.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781607326694
Author : Rolfe D. Mandel
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806132612
Geoarchaeology is the application of geoscience to the study of archaeological deposits and the archaeological record. Employing techniques from pedology, geomorphology, sedimentology, geochronology, and stratigraphy, geoarchaeologists investigate and interpret sediments, soils and landforms at the focal points of archaeological research. Edited by Rolfe D. Mandel and with contributions by John Albanese, Joe Allen Artz, E. Arthur Bettis III, C. Reid Ferring, Vance T. Holliday, David W. May, and Mandel, this volume traces the history of all major projects, researchers, theoretical developments, and sites contributing to our geoarchaeological knowledge of North America's Great Plains. The book provides a historical overview and explores theoretical questions that confront geoarchaeologists working in the Great Plains, where North American geoarchaeology emerged as a discipline.
Author : George C Frison,Dennis J Stanford
Publisher : Percheron Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9798986386188
George Frison and Dennis Stanford's Agate Basin monograph is not only a classic of Plains paleoindian archaeology, but also of multidisciplinary research, geoarchaeology, zooarchaeology, and experimental archaeology. Lucid presentation of meticulously excavated and analyzed sediments, bones, and artifacts convey an unmatched sense of the sights, sounds, and smells of Paleoindian life on the High Plains-from brutal winters and blistering summers, to killing and butchering bison, and to making lethal weaponry. As Matthew Hill writes in his new prologue, "Not merely an important volume of the Frison canon, Agate Basin stands as a foundational document in modern Americanist archaeology and a major accomplishment in American science." Originally published by Academic Press in 1982.
Author : Lewis Roberts Binford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X000646430
Non-Aboriginal material.