Contemporary Issues In California Archaeology

Author : Terry L Jones,Jennifer E Perry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315431642

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Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology by Terry L Jones,Jennifer E Perry Pdf

Recent archaeological research on California includes a greater diversity of models and approaches to the region’s past, as older literature on the subject struggles to stay relevant. This comprehensive volume offers an in-depth look at the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in the field including key controversies relevant to the Golden State: coastal colonization, impacts of comets and drought cycles, systems of power, Polynesian contacts, and the role of indigenous peoples in the research process, among others. With a specific emphasis on those aspects of California’s past that resonate with the state’s modern cultural identity, the editors and contributors—all leading figures in California archaeology—seek a new understanding of the myth and mystique of the Golden State.

Author : Terry L Jones,Jennifer E Perry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315431635

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Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology by Terry L Jones,Jennifer E Perry Pdf

Recent archaeological research on California includes a greater diversity of models and approaches to the region’s past, as older literature on the subject struggles to stay relevant. This comprehensive volume offers an in-depth look at the most recent theoretical and empirical developments in the field including key controversies relevant to the Golden State: coastal colonization, impacts of comets and drought cycles, systems of power, Polynesian contacts, and the role of indigenous peoples in the research process, among others. With a specific emphasis on those aspects of California’s past that resonate with the state’s modern cultural identity, the editors and contributors—all leading figures in California archaeology—seek a new understanding of the myth and mystique of the Golden State.

Author : Benjamin Alberti,Andrew Meirion Jones,Joshua Pollard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315434230

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Archaeology After Interpretation by Benjamin Alberti,Andrew Meirion Jones,Joshua Pollard Pdf

A new generation of archaeologists has thrown down a challenge to post-processual theory, arguing that characterizing material symbols as arbitrary overlooks the material character and significance of artifacts. This volume showcases the significant departure from previous symbolic approaches that is underway in the discipline. It brings together key scholars advancing a variety of cutting edge approaches, each emphasizing an understanding of artifacts and materials not in terms of symbols but relationally, as a set of associations that compose people’s understanding of the world. Authors draw on a diversity of intellectual sources and case studies, paving a dynamic road ahead for archaeology as a discipline and theoretical approaches to material culture.

Author : Robert W. Preucel,Stephen A. Mrozowski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444358513

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Contemporary Archaeology in Theory by Robert W. Preucel,Stephen A. Mrozowski Pdf

The second edition of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism, has been thoroughly updated and revised, and features top scholars who redefine the theoretical and political agendas of the field, and challenge the usual distinctions between time, space, processes, and people. Defines the relevance of archaeology and the social sciences more generally to the modern world Challenges the traditional boundaries between prehistoric and historical archaeologies Discusses how archaeology articulates such contemporary topics and issues as landscape and natures; agency, meaning and practice; sexuality, embodiment and personhood; race, class, and ethnicity; materiality, memory, and historical silence; colonialism, nationalism, and empire; heritage, patrimony, and social justice; media, museums, and publics Examines the influence of American pragmatism on archaeology Offers 32 new chapters by leading archaeologists and cultural anthropologists

Author : Harold Mooney,Erika Zavaleta
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520962170

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Ecosystems of California by Harold Mooney,Erika Zavaleta Pdf

This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for California’s remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem type—its distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of California’s ecological patterns and the history of the state’s various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the state’s ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of California’s environment and curious naturalists.

Author : Jon Erlandson,Terry L. Jones,Russell Stannard
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781938770678

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Catalysts to Complexity by Jon Erlandson,Terry L. Jones,Russell Stannard Pdf

When the Spanish colonized it in AD 1769, the California Coast was inhabited by speakers of no fewer than 16 distinct languages and an untold number of small, autonomous Native communities. These societies all survived by foraging, and ethnohistoric records show a wide range of adaptations emphasizing a host of different marine and terrestrial foods. Many groups exhibited signs of cultural complexity including sedentism, high population density, permanent social inequality, and sophisticated maritime technologies. The ethnographic era was preceded by an archaeological past that extends back to the terminal Pleistocene. Essays in this volume explore the last three and one half millennia of this long history, focusing on the archaeological signatures of emergent cultural complexity. Organized geographically, they provide an intricate mosaic of archaeological, historic, and ethnographic findings that illuminate cultural changes over time. To explain these Late Holocene cultural developments, the authors address issues ranging from culture history, paleoenvironments, settlement, subsistence, exchange, ritual, power, and division of labor, and employ both ecological and post-modern perspectives. Complex cultural expressions, most highly developed in the Santa Barbara Channel and the North Coast, are viewed alternatively as fairly recent and abrupt responses to environmental flux or the end-product of gradual progressions that began earlier in the Holocene.

Author : Mark W Allen,Terry L Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315415963

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Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers by Mark W Allen,Terry L Jones Pdf

How did warfare originate? Was it human genetics? Social competition? The rise of complexity? Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past brings us closer to an answer. The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structures. Their controversial conclusions will elicit interest among anthropologists, archaeologists, and those in conflict studies.

Author : Lacey B. Carpenter,Anna Marie Prentiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000464917

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Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change by Lacey B. Carpenter,Anna Marie Prentiss Pdf

Archaeology of Households, Kinship, and Social Change offers new perspectives on the processes of social change from the standpoint of household archaeology. This volume develops new theoretical and methodological approaches to the archaeology of households pursuing three critical themes: household diversity in human residential communities with and without archaeologically identifiable houses, interactions within and between households that explicitly considers impacts of kin and non-kin relationships, and lastly change as a process that involves the choices made by members of households in the context of larger societal constraints. Encompassing these themes, authors explore the role of social ties and their material manifestations (within the house, dwelling, or other constructed space), how the household relates to other social units, how households consolidate power and control over resources, and how these changes manifest at multiple scales. The case studies presented in this volume have broader implications for understanding the drivers of change, the ways households create the contexts for change, and how households serve as spaces for invention, reaction, and/or resistance. Understanding the nature of relationships within households is necessary for a more complete understanding of communities and regions as these ties are vital to explaining how and why societies change. Taking a comparative outlook, with case studies from around the world, this volume will inform students and professionals researching household archaeology and be of interest to other disciplines concerned with the relationship between social networks and societal change.

Author : Seth Mallios,Sara L. Gonzalez,Michael Grone,Kathleen L. Hull
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781805392767

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Inclusion, Transformation, and Humility in North American Archaeology by Seth Mallios,Sara L. Gonzalez,Michael Grone,Kathleen L. Hull Pdf

In a dynamic near half-century career of insight, engagement, and instruction, Kent G. Lightfoot transformed North American archaeology through his innovative ideas, robust collaborations, thoughtful field projects, and mentoring of numerous students. Authors emphasize the multifarious ways Lightfoot impacted—and continues to impact—approaches to archaeological inquiry, anthropological engagement, indigenous issues, and professionalism. Four primary themes include: negotiations of intercultural entanglements in pluralistic settings; transformations of temporal and spatial archaeological dimensions, as well as theoretical and methodological innovations; engagement with contemporary people and issues; and leading by example with honor, humor, and humility. These reflect the remarkable depth, breadth, and growth in Lightfoot’s career, despite his unwavering stylistic devotion to Hawaiian shirts.

Author : Sabrina C. Agarwal,Julie K. Wesp
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826352590

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Exploring Sex and Gender in Bioarchaeology by Sabrina C. Agarwal,Julie K. Wesp Pdf

This volume brings together the latest approaches in bioarchaeology in the study of sex and gender. Archaeologists have long used skeletal remains to identify gender. Contemporary bioarchaeologists, however, have begun to challenge the theoretical and methodological basis for sex assignment from the skeleton. Simultaneously, they have started to consider the cultural construction of the gendered body and gender roles, recognizing the body as uniquely fashioned from the interaction of biological, social, and environmental factors. As the contributors to this volume reveal, combining skeletal data with contextual information can provide a richer understanding of life in the past.

Author : Sue Hamilton,Ruth D Whitehouse,Katherine I Wright
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781598742244

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ARCHAEOLOGY AND WOMEN by Sue Hamilton,Ruth D Whitehouse,Katherine I Wright Pdf

Archaeology and Women draws together from a variety of angles work currently being done within a contemporary framework on women in archaeology. One section of this collection of original articles addresses the historical and contemporary roles of women in the discipline. Another attempts to link contemporary archaeological theory and practice to work on women and gender in other fields. Finally, this volume presents a wide diversity of theoretical approaches and methods of study of women in the ancient world, representing a cross section of work being carried out today under the broad banner of gender archaeology. The geographical and chronological range of the contributions is also wide, from Southeast Asia and South America to Western Asia, Egypt and Europe, from Great Britain to Greece, and from 10,000 years ago to the recent past. An ideal sampler for courses dealing with women and archaeology.

Author : Simon Coleman,Susan B. Hyatt,Ann Kingsolver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317590668

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The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology by Simon Coleman,Susan B. Hyatt,Ann Kingsolver Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology is an invaluable guide and major reference source for students and scholars alike, introducing its readers to key contemporary perspectives and approaches within the field. Written by an experienced international team of contributors, with an interdisciplinary range of essays, this collection provides a powerful overview of the transformations currently affecting anthropology. The volume both addresses the concerns of the discipline and comments on its construction through texts, classroom interactions, engagements with various publics, and changing relations with other academic subjects. Persuasively demonstrating that a number of key contemporary issues can be usefully analyzed through an anthropological lens, the contributors cover important topics such as globalization, law and politics, collaborative archaeology, economics, religion, citizenship and community, health, and the environment. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology is a fascinating examination of this lively and constantly evolving discipline.

Author : Michael J. Moratto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 757 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 140440001X

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California Archaeology by Michael J. Moratto Pdf

Author : Terry L Jones,Georgie Waugh
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781950446094

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Central California Coastal Prehistory by Terry L Jones,Georgie Waugh Pdf

Author : Kristina M. Gill,Mikael Fauvelle,Jon M. Earlandson
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813057002

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An Archaeology of Abundance by Kristina M. Gill,Mikael Fauvelle,Jon M. Earlandson Pdf

The islands of Alta and Baja California changed dramatically in the centuries after Spanish colonists arrived. Native populations were decimated by disease, and their lives were altered through forced assimilation and the cessation of traditional foraging practices. Overgrazing, overfishing, and the introduction of nonnative species depleted natural resources severely. Most scientists have assumed the islands were also relatively marginal for human habitation before European contact, but An Archaeology of Abundance reassesses this long-held belief, analyzing new lines of evidence suggesting that the California islands were rich in resources important to human populations. Contributors examine data from Paleocoastal to historic times that suggest the islands were optimal habitats that provided a variety of foods, fresh water, minerals, and fuels for the people living there. Botanical remains from these sites, together with the modern resurgence of plant communities after the removal of livestock, challenge theories that plant foods had to be imported for survival. Geoarchaeological surveys show that the islands had a variety of materials for making stone tools, and zooarchaeological data show that marine resources were abundant and that the translocation of plants and animals from the mainland further enhanced an already rich resource base. Studies of extensive exchange, underwater forests of edible seaweeds, and high island population densities also support the case for abundance on the islands. Concluding that the California islands were not marginal environments for early humans, the discoveries presented in this volume hold significant implications for reassessing the ancient history of islands around the world that have undergone similar ecological transformations. A volume in the series Society and Ecology in Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by Victor D. Thompson