Diversity And Complexity In Prehistoric Maritime Societies

Author : Bruce J. Bourque
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 418 pages
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Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780585275741

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Diversity and Complexity in Prehistoric Maritime Societies by Bruce J. Bourque Pdf

New England archaeology has not always been everyone's cup of tea; only late in the Golden of nineteenth-century archaeology, as archaeology's focus turned westward, did a few pioneers look northward as well, causing a brief flurry of investigation and excavation. Between 1892 and 1894, Charles C. Willoughby did some exemplary excavations at three small burial sites in Bucksport, Orland, and Ellsworth, Maine, and made some models of that activity for exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair. These activities were encouraged by E Putnam, director of the Harvard Peabody Museum and head of anthropology at the "Columbian" Exposition. Even earlier, another director of the Peabody, Jeffries Wyman, spawned some real interest in the shellheaps of the Maine coast, but that did not last very long. Twentieth-century New England archaeology, specifically in Maine, was--for its first fifty years--rather low key too, with short-lived but important activity by Arlo and Oric (a Bates Harvard student) prior to World War Later, I. another Massachusetts institution, the Peabody Foundation at Andover, took some minor but responsible steps toward further understanding of the area's prehistoric past.

Author : Bruce J. Bourque
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1475770219

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Author : Bruce J. Bourque
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780585275741

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Diversity and Complexity in Prehistoric Maritime Societies by Bruce J. Bourque Pdf

New England archaeology has not always been everyone's cup of tea; only late in the Golden of nineteenth-century archaeology, as archaeology's focus turned westward, did a few pioneers look northward as well, causing a brief flurry of investigation and excavation. Between 1892 and 1894, Charles C. Willoughby did some exemplary excavations at three small burial sites in Bucksport, Orland, and Ellsworth, Maine, and made some models of that activity for exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair. These activities were encouraged by E Putnam, director of the Harvard Peabody Museum and head of anthropology at the "Columbian" Exposition. Even earlier, another director of the Peabody, Jeffries Wyman, spawned some real interest in the shellheaps of the Maine coast, but that did not last very long. Twentieth-century New England archaeology, specifically in Maine, was--for its first fifty years--rather low key too, with short-lived but important activity by Arlo and Oric (a Bates Harvard student) prior to World War Later, I. another Massachusetts institution, the Peabody Foundation at Andover, took some minor but responsible steps toward further understanding of the area's prehistoric past.

Author : Stephen John Hornsby,John G. Reid
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0773528652

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New England and the Maritime Provinces by Stephen John Hornsby,John G. Reid Pdf

A wide-reaching, inter-disciplinary examination of the links between New England and the Maritimes.

Author : Karine Taché
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780915703746

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Structure and Regional Diversity in the Meadowood Interaction Sphere by Karine Taché Pdf

Author : Matthew R. Bahar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190874254

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Storm of the Sea by Matthew R. Bahar Pdf

Narratives of cultural encounter in colonial North America often contrast traditional Indian coastal-dwellers and intrepid European seafarers. In Storm of the Sea, Matthew R. Bahar instead tells the forgotten history of Indian pirates hijacking European sailing ships on the rough waters of the north Atlantic and of an Indian navy pressing British seamen into its ranks. From their earliest encounters with Europeans in the sixteenth century to the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, the Wabanaki Indians of northern New England and the Canadian Maritimes fought to enhance their relationship with the ocean and the colonists it brought to their shores. This native maritime world clashed with the relentless efforts of Europeans to supplant it with one more amenable to their imperial designs. The Wabanaki fortified their longstanding dominion over the region's land- and seascape by co-opting European sailing technology and regularly plundering the waves of European ships, sailors, and cargo. Their campaign of sea and shore brought wealth, honor, and power to their confederacy while alienating colonial neighbors and thwarting English and French imperialism through devastating attacks. Their seaborne raids developed both a punitive and extractive character; they served at once as violent and honorable retribution for the destructive pressures of colonialism in Indian country and as a strategic enterprise to secure valuable plunder. Ashore, Indian diplomats engaged in shrewd transatlantic negotiations with imperial officials of French Acadia and New England. Positioning Indians into the Age of Sail, Storm of the Sea offers an original perspective on Native American, imperial, and Atlantic history.

Author : Pam Dickinson,Jason Jeandron,Lucy Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443809139

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Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions by Pam Dickinson,Jason Jeandron,Lucy Wilson Pdf

Reconstructing Human-Landscape Interactions demonstrates the high quality of work presented at the first Developing International Geoarchaeology conference (DIG 2005), held in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, and exemplifies the over-riding theme of this discipline. People have always used the landscape in many ways: as a place to live, as a place to grow crops, as a source of natural resources. Those actions leave their traces. The characteristics of the landscape constrain which activities are possible, just as social and cultural habits condition people’s connection with the environment. Geoarchaeology is about finding the traces of these interactions, and using them to reconstruct how people in the past behaved in their environmental context. The material covered in the proceedings ranges from broad themes of climate change and landscape use, to more specific subjects such as river avulsion and the use of tidal ponds. The papers move us from the land to the coastal margin and back onto land to examine particular techniques. The final paper leads us beyond archaeology and points out that geoarchaeological data must contribute to the debate about the sustainability of present-day land-use practices: a fitting challenge to take us into the future.

Author : Gregory Monks
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789402411065

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Climate Change and Human Responses by Gregory Monks Pdf

This book contributes to the current discussion on climate change by presenting selected studies on the ways in which past human groups responded to climatic and environmental change. In particular, the chapters show how these responses are seen in the animal remains that people left behind in their occupation sites. Many of these bones represent food remains, so the environments in which these animals lived can be identified and human use of those environments can be understood. In the case of climatic change resulting in environmental change, these animal remains can indicate that a change has occurred, in climate, environment and human adaptation, and can also indicate the specific details of those changes.

Author : Alan H. Simmons
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306471629

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Faunal Extinction in an Island Society by Alan H. Simmons Pdf

The multidisciplinary research program at Akrotiri Aetokremnos is important, in my op- ion, for three reasons: two empirical and one conceptual. Quite apart from the archaeology, work at the site is a major contribution to island biogeography, in that the Phanourios sample—certainly the best from Cyprus and probably the best anywhere in the world—has already provided, and will continue to provide, important ecological and behavioral data on these intriguing creatures. Dwarfed island faunas are important to our understanding of the complex factors that shape natural selection in ecologically closed environments over the evolutionary long term. At Aetokremnos, we seem to have the “end” of a long sequence of hippo evolution on the island. With comparative studies of other Cypriot hippo faunas, we should be able to pin down the interval of initial colonization by what were, pres- ably, normal-sized hippos, and—if the other sites can be dated—document the dwarfing process in considerable detail. Aetokremnos would still be a significant paleontological - cality, even in the absence of evidence of a human presence there. While reading the text of the monograph, a number of questions strictly related to the paleontology occurred to me. One was how to model the colonization process. There seems to be little question that the large mammals colonized the island by swimming to it (because, I gather, Cyprus has not been connected to the mainland for roughly 5–6 m- lion years).

Author : Christopher Carr,Jill E. Neitzel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781489910974

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Style, Society, and Person by Christopher Carr,Jill E. Neitzel Pdf

Style, Society, and Person integrates the diverse current and past understandings of the causes of style in material culture. It comprehensively surveys the many factors that cause style; reviews theories that address these factors; builds and tests a unifying framework for integrating the theories; and illustrates the framework with detailed analyses of archaeological and ethnographic data ranging from simple to complex societies. Archaeologists, sociocultural anthropologists, and educators will appreciate the unique unifying approach this book takes to developing style theory.

Author : Amanda M. Evans,Joseph C. Flatman,Nicholas C. Flemming
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461496359

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Prehistoric Archaeology on the Continental Shelf by Amanda M. Evans,Joseph C. Flatman,Nicholas C. Flemming Pdf

The chapters in this edited volume present multi-disciplinary case studies of prehistoric archaeological sites located on now-submerged portions of the continental shelf. Each chapter represents an extension of the known prehistoric record beyond the modern shoreline. Case studies represent central themes of landscape change, climate change and societal development, using new technologies for mapping, monitoring and managing these sites.

Author : W. Jeffrey Bolster
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674067219

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The Mortal Sea by W. Jeffrey Bolster Pdf

Since the time of the Vikings, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend on it for survival, and people have shaped the Atlantic. In his account of this interdependency, Bolster, a historian and professional seafarer, takes us through a millennium-long environmental history of our impact on one of the largest ecosystems in the world.

Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1135 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199232444

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion by Timothy Insoll Pdf

A comprehensive overview, by period and region, of the archaeology of ritual and religion. The coverage is global, and extends from the earliest prehistory to modern times. Written by over sixty renowned specialists, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will also stimulate further research.

Author : Peter Bogucki
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557863492

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The Origins of Human Society by Peter Bogucki Pdf

The Origins of Human Society traces the development of human culture from its origins over 2 million years ago to the emergence of literate civilization. In addition to a global coverage of prehistoric life, the book pays specific attention to the origins and dispersal of anatomically-modern humans, the development of symbolic expression, the transition from mobile foraging bands to sedentary households, early agriculture and its consequences, the emergence of social differentiation and hereditary ranking, and the prehistoric roots of ancient states and empires. The Blackwell History of the World Series The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.

Author : Cheryl Claassen
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780817318543

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Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America by Cheryl Claassen Pdf

A comprehensive and essential field reference, Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America reveals the spiritual landscape in the American Archaic period. Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America describes, illustrates, and offers nondogmatic interpretations of rituals and beliefs in Archaic America. In compiling a wealth of detailed entries, author Cheryl Claassen has created both an exhaustive reference as well as an opening into new archaeological taxonomies, connections, and understandings of Native American culture. The material is presented in an introductory essay about Archaic rituals followed by two sections of entries that incorporate reports and articles discussing archaeological sites; studies of relevant practices of ritual and belief; data related to geologic features, artifact attributes, and burial settings; ethnographies; and pilgrimages to specific sites. Claassen’s work focuses on the American Archaic period (marked by the end of the Ice Age approximately 11,000 years ago) and a geographic area bounded by the edge of the Great Plains, Newfoundland, and southern Florida. This period and region share specific beliefs and practices such as human sacrifice, dirt mound burial, and oyster shell middens. This interpretive guide serves as a platform for new interpretations and theories on this period. For example, Claassen connects rituals to topographic features and posits the Pleistocene-Holocene transition as a major stimulus to Archaic beliefs. She also expands the interpretation of existing data previously understood in economic or environmental terms to include how this same data may also reveal spiritual and symbolic practices. Similarly, Claassen interprets Archaic culture in terms of human agency and social constraint, bringing ritual acts into focus as drivers of social transformation and ethnogenesis. Richly annotated and cross-referenced for ease of use, Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America will benefit scholars and students of archaeology and Native American culture. Claassen’s overview of the archaeological record should encourage the development of original archaeological and historical connections and patterns. Such an approach, Claassen suggests, may reveal patterns of influence extending from early eastern Americans to the Aztec and Maya.