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1 online resource (417 p.) |
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Cover (Ancient North America 5E) -- Front Matter -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Author's Notes -- Dates -- Maps -- Measurements -- Place Names -- References -- Part 1 The Archaeology of North America -- Chapter 1 Archaeology and Ancient North America -- Columbus and After -- The Myth of the Moundbuilders -- The Birth of North American Archaeology -- Alfred Kidder and Pecos, New Mexico -- How Do We Study Ancient North America? -- Culture History -- How Old Is It? -- Thinking About the Past -- Lewis Binford's Processual Archaeology |
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Archaeology and Stakeholders -- Summary -- Part 2 Settlement -- Enduring Themes -- Chapter 2 First Settlement -- First Settlement: Fiercely Argued Theories -- Who Were the First Americans? -- Introducing Beringia -- The Beringian Standstill Hypothesis -- First Settlement in the Far North -- Key Locations in Early Alaska -- Heading South: The Pacific Coast -- A Faint Signature -- Some Pre-Clovis Sites -- Clovis and Others -- The Gault Site, Texas -- The Mystery of Megafaunal Extinction -- Summary -- Chapter 3 After Clovis -- Folsom People and Others on the Plains: c. 10,800 to 6900 BCE |
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Culture Areas and Broad Subdivisions -- The Olsen-Chubbock Bison Kill, Colorado, c. 7400 BCE -- Understanding Projectile Points -- The Western Interior: 10,000 BCE to Modern Times -- Yes, Yes, It Is a Rabbit! -- The Eastern Woodlands: 9000 to 4500 BCE -- Restricted Mobility: c. 6500 BCE Onward -- Sedentism and Ancestors -- Summary -- Part 3 Adaptation -- Enduring Themes -- Chapter 4 The Far North -- Aleuts and Mainlanders: c. 5500 BCE to Recent Times -- Baidarka! -- The Arctic Small Tool Tradition: c. 2500 to 800 BCE -- Back to the Bering Strait: The Norton Tradition, c. 1000 BCE to 800 CE |
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The Dorset Tradition of the Eastern Arctic: 200 BCE to c. 800 CE -- Dorset Art -- Thule Whale Hunting -- Thule Expansion in the Eastern Arctic: c. 1000 CE -- Classic Thule: ?1250 to 1500 CE -- Post-Classic Thule: 1400 CE to European Contact -- Summary -- Chapter 5 The Mythical Pacific Eden -- A Diverse Coastal World -- Early Settlement of the Northwest Coast: Before 6000 to c. 3500 BCE -- Salmon, Food Surpluses, and Exchange on the Northwest Coast: c. 3500 BCE to c. 500 CE -- South of the Klamath River: Before 10,000 to 1500 BCE -- Acorns: The Ultimate Staple |
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The Northwest Coast: c. 1000 BCE to Modern Times -- The Ancient Makah Village at Ozette, Washington -- The Interior Plateau: 8500 BCE to Modern Times -- Northern California Coast: 3000 BCE and Later -- Northern California Cultural Sequence -- Southern California Coast: 1500 BCE and Later -- El Montón: A Persistent Place -- Summary -- Chapter 6 Arid Lands in the West -- The Great Basin Environment -- Ethnographic Analogy, Shoshone, And Ecological Approaches -- Paleo-Indians and Desert Archaic: Before 13,500 Years Ago to Recent Times -- Great Basin Desert Archaic: c. 9000 BCE to Recent Times |
| Summary |
The new gold standard in North American archaeology |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Major Great Basin Caves and Rockshelters |
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Prehistoric peoples.
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Archaeology.
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Archaeology -- North America
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Antiquities.
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Archaeology
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archaeology.
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excavation (process)
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Antiquities
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Archaeology
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Prehistoric peoples
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North America -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85092456
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North America
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780500776506 |
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0500776504 |
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