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Middle Atlantic Prehistory
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Author : Heather A. Wholey
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-03-05
Middle Atlantic Prehistory written by Heather A. Wholey and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-05 with Social Science categories.
Regional identities and practices are often debated in American archaeology, but Middle Atlantic prehistorians have largely refrained from such discussions, focusing instead on creating chronologies and studying socio-political evolution from the perspective of sub-regions. What is Middle Atlantic prehistoric archaeology? What are the questions and methods that identify our practice in this region or connect research in our region to larger anthropological themes? Middle Atlantic Prehistory: Foundations and Practice provides a basic survey of Middle Atlantic prehistoric archaeology and serves as an important reference for situating the development of Middle Atlantic prehistoric archaeology within the present context of culture area studies. This edited volume is a regional, historic overview of important themes, topics, and approaches in Middle Atlantic prehistory; covering major practical and theoretical debates and controversies in the region and in the discipline. Each chapter is holistic in its review of the historical development of a particular theme, in evaluating its contributions to current scholarship, and in proposing future directions for productive scholarly work. Contributing authors represent the full range of professional practice in archaeology and include university professors, cultural resources professionals, government regulatory/review archaeologists and museums curators with many years of practical and theoretical immersion in his/her chapter topic, and is highly regarded in the discipline and in the region for their expertise. Middle Atlantic Prehistory provides a much-needed synthesis and historical overview for academic and cultural resource archaeologists and independent scholars working in the Middle Atlantic region in particular.
Late Woodland Cultures Of The Middle Atlantic Region
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Author : Jay F. Custer
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1986
Late Woodland Cultures Of The Middle Atlantic Region written by Jay F. Custer and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.
Provides a comparative overview of the late prehistoric cultures that lived in the Middle Atlantic region between A.D. 1000 and A.D. 1600. Regional specialists address issues regarding social complexity, community pattering and organization, social organizations, subsistence (especially the use of agriculture), warfare, and use of storage.
Archaeology Copper And Complexity In The Middle Atlantic Region
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Author : Gregory Denis Lattanzi
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-01-14
Archaeology Copper And Complexity In The Middle Atlantic Region written by Gregory Denis Lattanzi and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-14 with Social Science categories.
For the prehistoric people of the Middle Atlantic region, copper held a fascination higher than rank, achievement, or status. Native copper artifacts, along with other exotic objects, were seen as a conduit or connection between the living and the dead and were used in burial. Other studies have viewed the use of such artifacts in burials as indicative of an individual’s status and rank, providing evidence for complex society. In Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity, Gregory Denis Lattanzi contends that such economic explanations should be rethought, arguing that the presence of highly exotic artifacts like copper beads and gorgets could be representative of the different mechanisms at play within prehistoric ideology, ceremonialism, and ritual.
A Study Of Prehistoric Soapstone Vessels Of The Middle Atlantic Region Of The United States
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Author : Gary D. Shaffer
language : en
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Release Date : 2015
A Study Of Prehistoric Soapstone Vessels Of The Middle Atlantic Region Of The United States written by Gary D. Shaffer and has been published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
This study began with an intensive search to identify all prehistoric sites with soapstone artifacts in Maryland and the District of Columbia. A review of published and unpublished records and interviews with avocational archaeologists found that the number of (precisely and imprecisely mapped) is at least 340. Avocational archaeologists had collected most of the reported soapstone artifacts, and surface collecting was the most common form of artifact retrieval. These situations result in limited site contextual information and restricted opportunity to interpret site activities. The findings of this study include that soapstone use increased during the Late Archaic and remained high, at least for certain artifacts, through the Woodland periods. The few 14C dates associated with soapstone vessels in the study area and neighboring states point to the initial use of bowls around 3600-2900 BP. Consideration of the distribution of the soapstone sites and review of the anthropological literature on trade and exchange point to three major means by which Native Americans in the study area obtained soapstone artifacts: direct unfettered procurement; direct access with use of an intermediate site as staging area; and exchange with a social group which quarried and made the items. Future developments in provenance studies of soapstone may assist archaeologists in matching artifacts with their quarries. My own experiments on the manufacturing of a preform bowl demonstrate the relative effectiveness of stone and bone chisels, as well as how archaeologists might best detect soapstone debitage at sites during field testing. I suggest that two factors led to the inhabitants of the Middle Atlantic switching to ceramics: first that there was a search for more easily obtainable materials to make watertight, fire-resistant vessels; and second that the increased use of ceramics led to an increase in their mechanical properties, making them a more desirable product.
Lithic Technology In The Middle Potomac River Valley Of Maryland And Virginia
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Author : Wm. Jack Hranicky
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Lithic Technology In The Middle Potomac River Valley Of Maryland And Virginia written by Wm. Jack Hranicky and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Social Science categories.
The archaeological focus on a single geographical area offers an opportunity to present projectile point typology as a microtechnology even though some of the types have widespread distributions. The area of the Middle Potomac River Valley presents a physical artefact collection for a view of prehistory. This volume, which includes several hundred images of the investigation, artefacts and archaeological research compiled and recorded from over 30 years of work in the area, includes: -an overview of the Middle Potomac River Valley archaeology including the peoples and sites; -new data and interpretations for the lithic technology of the area; and -classification and typology of artefacts including the usage of projectile point, axe, celt, drill, and knife implements. This work will be of great interest to prehistory archaeologists, especially those working in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States.
On The Ocean
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Author : Barry W. Cunliffe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
On The Ocean written by Barry W. Cunliffe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving and ever changing in mood, it is a place without time, in contrast to the land which is fixed and scarred by human activity giving it a visible history. While the land is familiar, even reassuring, the sea is unknown and threatening. By taking to the sea humans put themselves at its mercy. It has often been perceived to be an alien power teasing and cajoling. The sea may give but it takes. Why, then, did humans become seafarers? Part of the answer is that we are conditioned by our genetics to be acquisitive animals: we like to acquire rare materials and we are eager for esoteric knowledge, and society rewards us well for both. Looking out to sea most will be curious as to what is out there--a mysterious island perhaps but what lies beyond? Our innate inquisitiveness drives us to explore. Barry Cunliffe looks at the development of seafaring on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, two contrasting seas-- the Mediterranean without a significant tide, enclosed and soon to become familiar, the Atlantic with its frightening tidal ranges, an ocean without end. We begin with the Middle Palaeolithic hunter gatherers in the eastern Mediterranean building simple vessels to make their remarkable crossing to Crete and we end in the early years of the sixteenth century with sailors from Spain, Portugal and England establishing the limits of the ocean from Labrador to Patagonia. The message is that the contest between humans and the sea has been a driving force, perhaps the driving force, in human history.
The Prehistory And Early History Of Atlantic Europe
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Author : European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting
language : en
Publisher: BAR International Series
Release Date : 2000
The Prehistory And Early History Of Atlantic Europe written by European Association of Archaeologists. Annual Meeting and has been published by BAR International Series this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Eleven papers from a session held at the European Association of Archaeologists Fourth Annual Meeting in Goteborg, 1998, aimed at promoting the study of the contacts, connections, events and influences that took place among Atlantic communities from the 5th millennium BC to the 1st millennium AD. Contents: Achnacreebeag and its French connections (A Sheridan) ; Early husbandry in Atlantic areas (A Tresset) ; Interaction between early farmers and indigenous people in Central Belgium (M Lodewijckx & C Bakels) ; Field systems and the Atlantic Bronze Age (R Johnston) ; Exchange and communication (C Mount) ; Later Bronze Age western Iberia (C Gibson) ; Scottish Atlantic Iron Age (E MacKie) ; Drystone settlement records of Atlantic Scotland and Ireland (J Henderson) ; 1st millennia settlement development in the Atlantic West (S Gilmour) ; Stone forts along the Atlantic coast of Ireland (C Cotter) ; Material culture and North Sea contacts in the 5th to 7th centuries AD
On The Ocean
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Author : Sir Barry Cunliffe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-15
On The Ocean written by Sir Barry Cunliffe and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with History categories.
For humans the sea is, and always has been, an alien environment. Ever moving and ever changing in mood, it is a place without time, in contrast to the land which is fixed and scarred by human activity giving it a visible history. While the land is familiar, even reassuring, the sea is unknown and threatening. By taking to the sea humans put themselves at its mercy. It has often been perceived to be an alien power teasing and cajoling. The sea may give but it takes. Why, then, did humans become seafarers? Part of the answer is that we are conditioned by our genetics to be acquisitive animals: we like to acquire rare materials and we are eager for esoteric knowledge, and society rewards us well for both. Looking out to sea most will be curious as to what is out there - a mysterious island perhaps but what lies beyond? Our innate inquisitiveness drives us to explore. Barry Cunliffe looks at the development of seafaring on the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, two contrasting seas — the Mediterranean without a significant tide, enclosed and soon to become familiar, the Atlantic with its frightening tidal ranges, an ocean without end. We begin with the Middle Palaeolithic hunter gatherers in the eastern Mediterranean building simple vessels to make their remarkable crossing to Crete and we end in the early years of the sixteenth century with sailors from Spain, Portugal and England establishing the limits of the ocean from Labrador to Patagonia. The message is that the contest between humans and the sea has been a driving force, perhaps the driving force, in human history.
Prehistoric Exchange Systems In North America
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Author : Timothy G. Baugh
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-03-14
Prehistoric Exchange Systems In North America written by Timothy G. Baugh and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-14 with Social Science categories.
In this unique volume, archaeologists examine the changing economic structure of trade in North America over a period of 6,000 years. Organined by geographical and chronological divisions, each chapter focuses on trade in one of nine regions from the Arachiac through the late prehistoric period. Each contribution explores neighboring areas to llustrate the complexity of North American exchange. By charting the econmic structure of these regions, archaeologists, economic anthropologists, and economic geographers gain greater insight into the dynamics of North American trade and exchange on a continental wide basis.
The Nature And Pace Of Change In American Indian Cultures
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Author : R. Michael Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2016-03-31
The Nature And Pace Of Change In American Indian Cultures written by R. Michael Stewart and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-31 with Social Science categories.
Three thousand to four thousand years ago, the Native Americans of the mid-Atlantic region experienced a groundswell of cultural innovation. This remarkable era, known as the Transitional period, saw the advent of broad-bladed bifaces, cache blades, ceramics, steatite bowls, and sustained trade, among other ingenious and novel objects and behaviors. In The Nature and Pace of Change in American Indian Cultures, eight expert contributors examine the Transitional period in Pennsylvania and posit potential explanations of the significant changes in social and cultural life at that time. Building upon sixty years of accumulated data, corrected radiocarbon dating, and fresh research, scholars are reimagining the ancient environment in which native people lived. The Nature and Pace of Change in American Indian Cultures will give readers new insights into a singular moment in the prehistory of the mid-Atlantic region and the daily lives of the people who lived there. The contributors are Joseph R. Blondino, Kurt W. Carr, Patricia E. Miller, Roger Moeller, Paul A. Raber, R. Michael Stewart, Frank J. Vento, Robert D. Wall, and Heather A. Wholey.