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Author : Michael W. Spence,Jeffrey R. Parsons,Mary H. Parsons
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Aztecs
ISBN : 9780932206435
Author : Peter N. Peregrine,Melvin Ember
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Jonathon E. Ericson,Barbara A. Purdy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1984-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521256224
This book was originally published in 1984. For over a million years rocks provided human beings with the essential raw materials for the production of tools. Nevertheless we still know very little about the behaviour and processes that resulted in the creation of archaeological sites at or near lithic quarries. In the past archaeologists have placed much emphasis on the process of 'exchange' in their analysis of prehistoric economies while largely ignoring the sources of the exchanged objects. However, with the development of interest in the means of production, these sites have begun to take on a new significance. Prehistoric Quarries and Lithic Production is the first systematic study of archaeological sites that served as quarries for stone tools. Its theoretical and methodological importance will extend its appeal beyond those archaeologists concerned with lithic technology and prehistoric exchange systems to archaeologists and anthropologists in general and to geographers and geologists.
Author : Jeffrey R. Parsons
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780915703708
Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199675616
The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines is the first text to offer a comparative survey of figurines from across the globe, bringing together myriad contemporary research approaches to provide invaluable insights into their function, context, meaning, and use, as well as past thinking on the human body, gender, and identity.
Author : Jeffrey R. Parsons
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780915703920
Half a century ago, when archaeologist Jeffrey R. Parsons began fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, he could not know that many of the sites he studied were on the brink of destruction. The rural landscapes through which he traveled were, in many cases, destined to be plowed under and paved over. In Remembering Archaeological Fieldwork in Mexico and Peru, 1961–2003, Parsons offers readers a chance to see archaeological sites that were hundreds or thousands of years old and have since vanished or been irrevocably altered. Hundreds of photographs, accompanied by descriptions, illustrate the sites, the people, and the landscapes that Parsons encountered during four decades of research in these regions. Parsons is now emeritus professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and has published many archaeological monographs as well as ethnographic research on salt, fish, and other items used for traditional subsistence in Mexico. Foreword by Richard I. Ford.
Author : Ty Matejowsky,Donald C. Wood
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781900581
Continues on-going presentation of highly engaging anthropological research. This title contains a range of broad based and localized topics economic anthropologists that explore from various critical perspectives. It addresses questions of how political economy is articulated through processes of consumption, production, and evolution.
Author : Robert S. Santley,Kenneth G. Hirth
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1992-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0849388988
Prehispanic Domestic Units in Western Mesoamerica presents different analytical approaches for interpreting household composition and cultural site formation processes in prehispanic western Mesoamerica. Archaelogical data collected using both stratigraphic and reconnaisance methods are combined with and interpreted using a combination of ethnohistoric, ethnographic, and ethnoarchaeological information. The result is a richer and more complete picture of prehispanic household structure than any single analytic approach could produce on its own. The book is organized into several sections based on common theme and geographic area. The first three chapters provide a broad discussion of conceptual and methodological difficulties that archaeologists must resolve in the study of prehispanic households. Subsequent chapters present case studies which examine households from two areas of western Mesoamerica: the Central Mexican highlands and the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Eight case studies from the Central Mexican highlands provide a longitudinal perspective on changing household composition. Four of these examine households during the late Formative, Classic, Epiclassic, and Early Postclassic periods (650 B.C.-A.D. 1200), while four others focus specifically on household structure during the century immediately preceding the Spanish Conquest. Two additional case studies provide comparative information on household organization in the South Gulf Coast region during the Classic period. Prehispanic Domestic Units in Western Mesoamerica: Studies of the Household, Compound, and Residence will be an excellent reference for all anthropologists and archaeologists interested in prehispanic western Mesoamerica.
Author : Cheryl Claassen,Rosemary A. Joyce
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0812216024
During the 1960s, scholars constructed a model of cultural evolution in which men cooperated in the hunting of big game while women gathered plant food, "immobilized" by pregnancy and childcare. The essays in Women in Prehistory challenge this model as they reconsider women's social and economic roles.
Author : Barbara L. Stark,Barbara Voorhies
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483276366
Prehistoric Coastal Adaptations: The Economy and Ecology of Maritime Middle America is a compendium of research papers and treatises on Middle American people who lived within coastal habitats. The collection aims to reveal distinctive coastal adaptations and the role of Middle American people in major social transformations. The book discusses topics on the history of occupations of certain coastal sites; correlation of site location to resource procurement patterns; settlement locations and subsistence evidence in the coastal and inland habitats of Costa Rica; and the maritime adaptation and the rise of Maya civilization. The final chapter of the book also discusses the future research directions in the study of Middle American coastal people. The text will be of value to archeologists, anthropologists, historians, ethnologists, and researchers.
Author : Jeffrey R. Parsons,Elizabeth Brumfiel,Mary H. Parsons,David Wilson
Publisher : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780932206886
Author : Jeanne E. Arnold
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520097262
Author : Richard A. Diehl,Janet Catherine Berlo
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0884021750
Author : Don Laylander,Jerry D. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0813029651
Baja California, stretching 800 miles south into the Pacific Ocean from the California-Mexico border, has been called the "forgotten peninsula," a remote frontier whose natural wonders and history have remained largely unexplored. One of the world's longest peninsulas, Baja California harbors astonishing evidence of the hunting and gathering peoples who once lived here, yet the region has been little studied, and not much has been published about its archaeology and prehistory. This volume brings together recognized U.S. and Mexican scholars who have been actively engaged in primary research on the peninsula during the last two decades. It is the first comprehensive book-length study to describe and document new insights into an ancient past. Because of its relative isolation, the richness of its early historical record, and the comparatively pristine character of many parts of the peninsula, Baja California's prehistory is of particular interest to archaeologists and anthropologists. Beginning with topical essays on the emerging evidence from paleoenvironmental studies, linguistics, early historical documents, and 20th-century ethnographic studies, followed by chapters on the prehistory of seven of the peninsula's best studied regions, the authors also discuss potential directions for future research and the problem of protecting and preserving the physical traces of the prehistoric past. This book will be a standard reference for archaeologists, anthropologists, scientists, geographers, instructors of courses in North American prehistory, university libraries, and tourists.
Author : Rani T. Alexander,Susan Kepecs
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826359742
This book offers a new account of human interaction and culture change for Mesoamerica that connects the present to the past. Social histories that assess the cultural upheavals between the Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica and the ethnographic present overlook the archaeological record, with its unique capacity to link local practices to global processes. To fill this gap, the authors weigh the material manifestations of the colonial and postcolonial trajectory in light of local, regional, and global historical processes that have unfolded over the last five hundred years. Research on a suite of issues—economic history, production of commodities, agrarian change, resistance, religious shifts, and sociocultural identity—demonstrates that the often shocking patterns observed today are historically contingent and culturally mediated, and therefore explainable. This book belongs to a new wave of scholarship that renders the past immediately relevant to the present, which Alexander and Kepecs see as one of archaeology’s most crucial goals.
