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Author : John Stephen Athens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Cara Indians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039165027
Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch,Jean-Louis Rallu
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824864767
Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai‘i, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? Is it possible to develop new methods for tracking the long-term histories of island populations? These and related questions are at the heart of this new book, which draws together cutting-edge research by archaeologists, ethnographers, and demographers. In their accounts of exploration, early European voyagers in the Pacific frequently described the teeming populations they encountered on island after island. Yet missionary censuses and later nineteenth-century records often indicate much smaller populations on Pacific Islands, leading many scholars to debunk the explorers’ figures as romantic exaggerations. Recently, the debate over the indigenous populations of the Pacific has intensified, and this book addresses the problem from new perspectives. Rather than rehash old data and arguments about the validity of explorers’ or missionaries’ accounts, the contributors to this volume offer a series of case studies grounded in new empirical data derived from original archaeological fieldwork and from archival historical research. Case studies are presented for the Hawaiian Islands, Mo‘orea, the Marquesas, Tonga, Samoa, the Tokelau Islands, New Caledonia, Aneityum (Vanuatu), and Kosrae.
Author : Peter N. Peregrine,Melvin Ember
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461505259
The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents temporal dimension. Major traditions are an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory of humankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries, but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world's and kinship ties play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and time periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con The Encyclopedia is organized accord texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties are central to defining ethno is defined as a group of populations sharing logical cultures. similar subsistence practices, technology, There are three types of entries in the and forms of sociopolitical organization, Encyclopedia: the major tradition entry, which are spatially contiguous over a rela the regional subtradition entry, and the tively large area and which endure tempo site entry. Each contains different types of rally for a relatively long period. Minimal information, and each is intended to be areal coverage for a major tradition can used in a different way.
Author : Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0521307511
This book is about post-Pleistocene adaptive change among the aboriginal cultures of the mountains and deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. Conceived essentially as a natural science alternative to the prevailing culture history paradigm, it offers both a general theoretical framework for interpreting the archaeological record of the American South-West and a persuasive evolutionary model for the shift from a hunter-gatherer economy to horticulture at the Mogollon/Anasazi interface. Technical, architectural and settlement adaptations are examined and the rise of matrilineality, ethnic groupings and clans are modelled using ecological and ethnographic data and the innovative idea of anticipated cultural response. In the last part of the book, Dr Hunter-Anderson evaluates the 'fit' between her model and the archaeological record and argues vigorously for research into the evolution of ethnicity in the adaptive context of regional competition.
Author : Gregory Knapp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429714948
This book describes and analyzes the adaptive strategies of traditional and prehistoric farmers in one part of the Andes, in an effort to understand the varying interactions between people and their habitat over the last five hundred years.
Author : Thomas T. Veblen,Kenneth R. Young,Antony R. Orme
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190286057
The Physical Geography of South America, the eighth volume in the Oxford Regional Environments series, presents an enduring statement on the physical and biogeographic conditions of this remarkable continent and their relationships to human activity. It fills a void in recent environmental literature by assembling a team of specialists from within and beyond South America in order to provide an integrated, cross-disciplinary body of knowledge about this mostly tropical continent, together with its high mountains and temperate southern cone. The authors systematically cover the main components of the South American environment - tectonism, climate, glaciation, natural landscape changes, rivers, vegetation, animals, and soils. The book then presents more specific treatments of regions with special attributes from the tropical forests of the Amazon basin to the Atacama Desert and Patagonian steppe, and from the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific coasts to the high Andes. Additionally, the continents environments are given a human face by evaluating the roles played by people over time, from pre-European and European colonial impacts to the effects of modern agriculture and urbanization, and from interactions with El Niño events to prognoses for the future environments of the continent.
Author : John Stephen Athens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Agriculture, Prehistoric
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173008382368
Author : Edward M. Schortman,Patricia A. Urban
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781475764161
Archaeological research on interregional interaction processes has recently reasserted itself after a long hiatus following the eclipse of diffusion studies. This "rebirth" was marked not only by a sudden increase in publications that were focused on interac tion questions, but also by a diversity of perspectives on past contacts. To perdurable interests in warfare were added trade studies by the late 196Os. These viewpoints, in turn, were rapidly joined in the late 1970s by a wide range of intellectual schemes stimulated by developments in French Marxism (referred to in various ways; termed political ideology here) and sociology (Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems model). Researchers ascribing to the aforementioned intellectual frameworks were united in their dissatisfaction with attempts to explain sociopolitical change that treated in dividual cultures or societies as isolated entities. Only by reconstructing the complex intersocietal networks in which polities were integrated-the natures of these ties, who mediated the connections, and the political, economic, and ideological significance of the goods and ideas that moved along them-could adequate ex planations of sociopolitical shifts be formulated. Archaeologists seemed to be re discovering in the late twentieth century the importance of interregional contacts in processes of sociopolitical change. The diversity of perspectives that resulted seemed to be symptomatic of both an uncertainty of how best to approach this topic and the importance archaeologists attributed to it.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UOM:39015068865255
Includes section "Reviews."
Author : University of London. Institute of Archaeology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012553447
Author : University of London. Institute of Archaeology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : IND:30000108487780
Numbers for 1958-73 include the annual reports of the Institute for 1956/57-71/72.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172130050599
Author : Gregory Knapp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89095782124
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119280431
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UCAL:B4346677
Includes lists of Ph.D's awarded, 1954-
