Following The Mississippian Spread
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Following The Mississippian Spread
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Author : Robert A. Cook
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-06-29
Following The Mississippian Spread written by Robert A. Cook and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-29 with Social Science categories.
This book is the first to specifically trace the movement of Mississippian maize farmers throughout the US Midwest and Southeast. By providing a backdrop of shifting climatic conditions during the period, this volume also investigates the relationship between farmers and their environments. Detailed regional overviews of key locations in the Mississippi Valley, the Ohio Valley, and the peripheries of the Mississippian culture area reveal patterns and variation in the expression of Mississippian culture and interactions between migrants and local communities. Methodologically, the case studies highlight the strengths of integrating a variety of data sets to identify migration. The volume provides a broader case study of the links between climate change, migration, and the spread of agriculture that is relevant to archaeologists and anthropologists studying early agricultural societies throughout the world. Key patterns of adaptation to and mitigation of the effects of droughts, for example, provide a framework for understanding the options available to societies in the face of climate change afforded by the time-depth of an archaeological perspective.
Landscapes Of Ritual Performance In Eastern North America
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Author : Cheryl Claassen
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Landscapes Of Ritual Performance In Eastern North America written by Cheryl Claassen and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Social Science categories.
In the long history of documenting the material culture of the archaeological record, meaning and actions of makers and users of these items is often overlooked. The authors in this book focus on rituals exploring the natural and made landscape stages, the ritual directors, including their progression from shaman to priesthood, and meaning of the rites. They also provide comments on the end or failure of rites and cults from Paleoindian into post-DeSoto years. Chapters examine the archaeological records of Cahokia, the lower Ohio Valley, Aztalan Wisconsin, Vermont, Florida, and Georgia, and others scan the Eastern US, investigating tobacco/datura, color symbolism, deer symbolism, mound stratigraphy, flintknapping, stone caching, cults and their organization, and red ochre. These authors collectively query the beliefs that can be gleaned from mortuary practices and their variation, from mound construction, from imagery, from the choice of landscape setting. While some rituals were short-lived, others can be shown to span millennia as the ritual specialists modified their interpretations and introduced innovations.
Archaeologies Of Cosmoscapes In The Americas
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Author : J. Grant Stauffer
language : en
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Release Date : 2022-09-08
Archaeologies Of Cosmoscapes In The Americas written by J. Grant Stauffer and has been published by Oxbow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-08 with Social Science categories.
This volume examines how pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos and iteratively modeled it through the creation of particular objects and places. It emphasizes that American societies did this to materialize overarching models and templates for the shape and scope of the cosmos, the working definition of cosmoscape. Noting a tendency to gloss over the ways in which ancestral Americans envisioned the cosmos as intertwined and animated, the authors examine how cosmoscapes are manifested archaeologically, in the forms of objects and physically altered landscapes. This book’s chapters, therefore, offer case studies of cosmoscapes that present themselves as forms of architecture, portable artifacts, and transformed aspects of the natural world. In doing so, it emphasizes that the creation of cosmoscapes offered a means of reconciling peoples experiences of the world with their understandings of them.
Archaeology Of The Mississippian Culture
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Author : Peter N. Peregrine
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-11
Archaeology Of The Mississippian Culture written by Peter N. Peregrine and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-11 with Social Science categories.
First published in 1996. In recent years there has been a general increase of scholarly and popular interest in the study of ancient civilizations. Yet, because archaeologists and other scholars tend to approach their study of ancient peoples and places almost exclusively from their own disciplinary perspectives, there has long been a lack of general bibliographic and other research resources available for the non-specialist. This series is intended to fill that need.
Long On The Tooth
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Author : Christopher W. Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 2020-11-21
Long On The Tooth written by Christopher W. Schmidt and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-21 with Law categories.
Long 'on' the Tooth: Dental Evidence of Diet addresses human dental macroscopic and microscopic wear, as well as dental disease, as indicators of diet. The book focuses primarily on 350 pre-contact humans from North America dating from approximately 5,500 to 600 years ago. These populations had subsistence strategies ranging from terrestrial foraging to intensive maize agriculture. The study makes intra- and intergroup comparisons to elucidate dietary nuances that are largely beyond the reach of other means of dietary reconstruction. Finally, the book discusses the importance of using multiple dietary indicators in unison in order to provide paleodietary insights. Includes state-of-the-art dental microwear texture data Focuses on populations largely overlooked in archaeological and dental anthropology volumes Offers the first dental anthropology book to integrate dental pathology and dental microwear texture analysis
America S First Western Frontier East Tennessee
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Author : Brenda C. Calloway
language : en
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
Release Date : 1989
America S First Western Frontier East Tennessee written by Brenda C. Calloway and has been published by The Overmountain Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
Concentrating primarily within the period of 1600–1839, this narrative describes the first "Old West"—the land just beyond the crest of the Appalachian Mountains—and the many firsts that occurred there.
Feast Famine Or Fighting
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Author : Richard J. Chacon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-01-20
Feast Famine Or Fighting written by Richard J. Chacon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-20 with Social Science categories.
The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists. Existing theories and approaches involving the origins of social complexity include environmental circumscription, population growth, technology transfers, prestige-based and interpersonal-group competition, organized conflict, perennial wartime leadership, wealth finance, opportunistic leadership, climatological change, transport and trade monopolies, resource circumscription, surplus and redistribution, ideological imperialism, and the consideration of individual agency. However, recent approaches such as the inclusion of bioarchaeological perspectives, prospection methods, systematically-investigated archaeological sites along with emerging technologies are necessarily transforming our understanding of socio-cultural evolutionary processes. In short, many pre-existing ways of explaining the origins and development of social complexity are being reassessed. Ultimately, the contributors to this edited volume challenge the status quo regarding how and why social complexity arose by providing revolutionary new understandings of social inequality and socio-political evolution.
The Earth Through Time
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Author : Harold L. Levin
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2016-06-21
The Earth Through Time written by Harold L. Levin and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-21 with Science categories.
The Earth Through Time, 11th Edition, by Harold L. Levin and David T. King chronicles the Earth's story from the time the Sun began to radiate its light, to the beginning of civilization. The goal of The Earth Through Time is to present the history of the Earth, and the science behind that hsitory, as simply and clearly as possible. The authors strived to make the narrative more engaging, to convey the unique perspective and value of historical geology, and to improve the presentation so as to stimulate interest and enhance the reader's ability to retain essential concepts, long after the final exam.
The Juan Pardo Expeditions
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Author : Charles Hudson
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2005-07-24
The Juan Pardo Expeditions written by Charles Hudson and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-07-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Provides English translations of selected passages from the expedition accounts of sixteenth-century explorer Juan Pardo in the Carolinas and Tennessee, and includes interpretations of Pardo's routes and encounters with native peoples.
Perspectives On The Archaeology Of Pipes Tobacco And Other Smoke Plants In The Ancient Americas
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Author : Elizabeth Anne Bollwerk
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-20
Perspectives On The Archaeology Of Pipes Tobacco And Other Smoke Plants In The Ancient Americas written by Elizabeth Anne Bollwerk and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-20 with Social Science categories.
This volume presents the most recent archaeological, historical, and ethnographic research that challenges simplistic perceptions of Native smoking and explores a wide variety of questions regarding smoking plants and pipe forms from throughout North America and parts of South America. By broadening research questions, utilizing new analytical methods, and applying interdisciplinary interpretative frameworks, this volume offers new insights into a diverse array of perspectives on smoke plants and pipes.