Author: Carl Haley ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A Preliminary Survey of Missouri Archaeology
Author: Carl Haley ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Archaic Societies
Author: Thomas E. EmersonPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143842700X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 895
Book Description
Essential overview of American Indian societies during the Archaic period across central North America.
A Preliminary Survey of Missouri Archaeology
Author: Carl Haley ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Human Adaptation in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains
Author: George SaboAn Overview of the Prehistoric Resources of the Metropolitan St. Louis Area
Author: Elizabeth D. BenchleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Posing Questions for a Scientific Archaeology
Author: Terry L. HuntPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313000875
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Although many believe that archaeological knowledge consists simply of empirical findings, this notion is false; data are generated with the guidance of theory, or some sense-making system acting in its place whether researchers recognize this or not. Failure to understand the relationship between theory and the empirical world has led to the many debates and frustrations of contemporary archaeology. Despite years of trying, the atheoretical, empiricist foundations of archaeology have left us little but a history of storytelling and unsatisfying generalizations about historical change and human diversity. The present work offers promising directions for building theoretically defensible results by providing well-designed case studies that can be used as guides or exemplars. Evolutionary theory, in at least some form, is the foundation for a scientific archaeology that will yield scientific explanations for historical change.
The Missouri Archaeologist
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Lithic Analysis at the Millennium
Author: Norah MoloneyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315425319
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
The original research papers in the volume provide a broad review of current approaches to the study of lithic technology from the Palaeolithic to the present. The contributions address both with analytical techniques and interpretive issues. Collectively, they increase our understanding of issues such as tool function, means of production, raw material sourcing and exchange systems, and the evolution of human cognition, social organization and symbolic behavior.
Late Woodland Societies
Author: Thomas E. EmersonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803218215
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Archaeologists across the Midwest have pooled their data and perspectives to produce this indispensable volume on the Native cultures of the Late Woodland period (approximately A.D. 300?1000). Sandwiched between the well-known Hopewellian and Mississippian eras of monumental mound construction, theøLate Woodland period has received insufficient attention from archaeologists, who have frequently characterized it as consisting of relatively drab artifact assemblages. The close connections between this period and subsequent Mississippian and Fort Ancient societies, however, make it especially valuable for cross-cultural researchers. Understanding the cultural processes at work during the Late Woodland period will yield important clues about the long-term forces that stimulate and enhance social inequality. Late Woodland Societies is notable for its comprehensive geographic coverage; exhaustive presentation and discussion of sites, artifacts, and prehistoric cultural practices; and critical summaries of interpretive perspectives and trends in scholarship. The vast amount of information and theory brought together, examined, and synthesized by the contributors produces a detailed, coherent, and systematic picture of Late Woodland lifestyles across the Midwest. The Late Woodland can now be seen as a dynamic time in its own right and instrumental to the emergence of complex late prehistoric cultures across the Midwest and Southeast.
A Preliminary Report of the Archaeological Survey of the State of New Jersey
Author: American Museum of Natural HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description