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Author : Richard E. Hughes,Richard Edward Hughes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520096991
Author : M. Steven Shackley
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816550036
Obsidian was long valued by ancient peoples as a raw material for producing stone tools, and archaeologists have increasingly come to view obsidian studies as a crucial aid in understanding the past. Steven Shackley now shows how the geochemical and contextual analyses of archaeological obsidian can be applied to the interpretation of social and economic organization in the ancient Southwest. This book, the capstone of decades of investigation, integrates a wealth of obsidian research in one volume. It covers advances in analytical chemistry and field petrology that have enhanced our understanding of obsidian source heterogeneity, presents the most recent data on and interpretations of archaeological obsidian sources in the Southwest, and explores the ethnohistorical and contemporary background for obsidian use in indigenous societies. Shackley provides a thorough examination of the geological origin of obsidian in the region and the methods used to collect raw material and determine its chemical composition, and descriptions of obsidian sources throughout the Southwest. He then describes the occurrence of obsidian artifacts and shows how their geochemical fingerprints allow archaeologists to make conclusions regarding the procurement of obsidian. The book presents three groundbreaking applications of obsidian source studies. It first discusses an application to early Preceramic groups, showing how obsidian sources can reflect the range they inhabited over time as well as their social relationships during the Archaic period. It then offers an examination of the Late Classic Salado in Arizona’s Tonto Basin, where obsidian data, along with ceramic and architectural evidence, suggest that Mogollon migrants lived in economic and social harmony with the Hohokam, all the while maintaining relationships with their homeland. Finally, it provides an intensive look at social identity and gender differences in the Preclassic Hohokam of central Arizona, where obsidian source provenance and projectile point styles suggest that male Hohokam sought to create a stylistically defined identity in at least three areas of the Hohokam core area. These male “sodalities” were organized quite differently from female ceramic production groups. Today, obsidian research in the American Southwest enjoys an equal standing with ceramic, faunal, and floral studies as a method of revealing social process and change in prehistory. Shackley’s book discusses the ways in which archaeologists should approach obsidian research, no matter what the region, offering a thorough survey of archaeological obsidian studies that will have methodological and theoretical applications worldwide. The volume includes an extensive glossary created specifically for archaeologists.
Author : David M. Carballo,Marc N. Levine
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781492012764
Departing from the political economy perspective taken by the vast majority of volumes devoted to Mesoamerican obsidian, Obsidian Reflections is an examination of obsidian's sociocultural dimensions—particularly in regard to Mesoamerican world view, religion, and belief systems. Exploring the materiality of this volcanic glass rather than only its functionality, this book considers the interplay among people, obsidian, and meaning and how these relationships shaped patterns of procurement, exchange, and use. An international group of scholars hailing from Belize, France, Japan, Mexico, and the United States provides a variety of case studies from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. The authors draw on archaeological, iconographic, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric data to examine obsidian as a touchstone for cultural meaning, including references to sacrificial precepts, powerful deities, landscape, warfare, social relations, and fertility. Obsidian Reflections underscores the necessity of understanding obsidian from within its cultural context—the perspective of the indigenous people of Mesoamerica. It will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists as well as students and scholars of lithic studies and material culture.
Author : Courtland Lewis,Kevin McCain
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812699548
Red Rising and Philosophy has gathered together a crew of the wisest Helldivers philosophy can offer. Could humanity's love of physical enhancements cause its extinction? Do people doom humanity by trying to all be the same? Can a person love someone, while at the same time wanting that person destroyed? Is equality always the best principle on which to organize society? What is evil, and how does it exist in contemporary life? Does one remain the same person, even after changing every physical aspect of one's body? Is it moral to sell oneself into slavery, whether it’s through sex or manual labor? Is it ethical to sell one's children into slavery, on the promise that their children will live in peace and tranquility? These questions and more are what make Brown’s Red Rising trilogy such an impactful story. Brown pulls no punches, and philosophy works best in such an environment. Red Rising and Philosophy is not for the timid or the faint at heart. It’s not The Passage, since no one will die from reading it, but reading it could be a life-changing experience.
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001386593
Author : Donald Woodforde Clark,Annette McFadyen Clark
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772821390
This volume reports on the findings from the extensive archaeological surveys and excavations in the Batza Téna area, Alaska’s most important source of obsidian.
Author : John Grattan,Robin Torrence
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781598742695
Contributors to this volume--from anthropology, archaeology, environmental studies, geology, and biology--show that human societies have been incredibly resilient and adaptive from the impacts of volcanic eruptions over human history and prehistory.
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1216 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Geology
ISBN : OSU:32435075543678
Author : Stephan Torre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0889777799
Drawing from a life in the northwest and Canadian wild lands--ranching, construction, and timber--Torre explores tensions between gender, homestead ideals, and environmental loss with descriptive and lyric intensity.
Author : Stephan Torre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0889777756
A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephen Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands. Drawing from a life lived well, amidst hard work and time for reflection in the northwest wild lands of the Canadian and American Wests, Stephen Torre returns to the literary world with his usual descriptive and lyric intensity. Comprised of new and selected poems, Red Obsidian explores the necessary tensions that arise between genders and the pain and grief of environmental loss. Inspired and influenced by a diverse array of literary influences--Indigenous oral poets and English pastoral poets, T'ang Dynasty Chinese poets and Latin American poets, American Imagists and poets Theodore Roethke, James Wright, and W.S. Merwin--Torre's book is a poetic journal of a man passionately engaged at once with the marvel of wilderness and the rural labors of family homesteading, construction, and the logging of that wilderness. "When there's more joy or grief or hunger for knowing than I could express or explore elsewhere, I'm afflicted with the need to squeeze language from my fists. One can only hold so much inside," admits Torre. Readers will feel the torque, squeeze, and pull in these poems.
Author : Najeeb M.A. Rasul,Ian C.F. Stewart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319994086
This book gathers invited contributions from active researchers to provide an up-to-date overview of the geological setting of the Red Sea. It discusses aspects ranging from historical information to modern research in the Red Sea, and presents findings from rapidly advancing, emerging fields. This semi-enclosed young ocean basin provides a unique opportunity to study the development of passive continental margins in order to examine the current status of that region. In addition to studies on the Sea itself, it includes those from related fields on the littoral zone. The book is of interest to geoscientists and non-specialists alike.
Author : Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Geology
ISBN : PSU:000067464128
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11548209
Author : Jerome King,William R. Hildebrandt,Sharon A. Waechter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : California
ISBN : PURD:32754085234312
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Geology
ISBN : MINN:31951000862280F