Download or read book Analysis of Faunal Remains from Archaeological Sites Black Mesa Arizona written by Michele Seme and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers on the Archaeology of Black Mesa Arizona written by George J. Gumerman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging collection of 13 papers on archaeological work conducted by members of the Black Mesa project from 1975-1981. Topics range from methodologies for connecting surface scatters to buried remains to discussions of the relationship between source distance and the conservation of chipped stone materials.
Download or read book Sources of Bias in the Analysis of Faunal Remains from Black Mesa Arizona written by David Eckles and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau written by Shirley Powell and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings by participants in the Black Mesa Archaeological Project offers a synthesis of Kayenta-area archaeology, examining the ancestral Puebloan and Navajo occupation of the Four Corners region, and analysing faunal, lithic, ceramic, chronometric, and human osteological data, to construct an account of the prehistory and ethnohistory of northern Arizona that demonstrates how organizational variation and other aspects of culture change are largely a response to a changing natural environment.
Download or read book Mobility and Adaptation written by Shirley Powell and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now archaeologists have been capable of little more than speculation concerning the extent of human mobility in the prehistoric Southwest. According to George J. Gumerman in his Foreword to this book, however, "Shirley Powell's study has changed that. Using a combination of archaeological and ethnological data she has been able to demonstrate that certain periods on Black Mesa in Northeastern Arizona are characterized by great mobility while at other times the Mesa had a more sedentary population. She has taken the question of seasonality in occupation from the realm of speculation to that of testable hypothesis." Powell's major concern throughout this study is with behavior variability. Specifically she addresses the adequacy of "behavioral interpretations of material culture patterns for the Black Mesa region of northeastern Arizona." She notes that sometimes the descriptions from which explanations of variability are based are misleading or incorrect. Examining the relationships "among environment, subsistence, and mobility strategies," she emphasizes the role of seasonability in site locational strategies. Using data derived from ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological sources, she develops a model of subsistence/settlement interrelationships, which she tests by using "material culture remains from prehistoric sites."
Download or read book A View from Black Mesa written by George J. Gumerman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally! A modern book in the field of Southwestern archaeology that can be read, understood and enjoyed by everyone. ÑBooks of the Southwest "In clear and nontechnical language it provides readers with a synopsis of Anasazi prehistory and cultural ecology. ...Gumerman's work is especially useful for anyone seeking an on-site' introduction to some of the basic techniques and research orientations of modern American archaeology. Highly recommended for students and general readers." ÑChoice "It should be read with thoughtful care by the professional' archaeologist and ethnographer. And it will even more effectively serve the informed general reader, unconcerned with academic minutiae, through its fresh and direct exposition of the procedures, frustrations, and rewards of the calling." ÑThe Kiva "An outstanding success....a readable book that is suitable for professional archaeologists and the general public as well." ÑNorth American Archaeologist "A readable book that is suitable for professional archaeologists and the general public." ÑNorth American Archaeologist
Download or read book People of the Mesa written by Shirley Powell and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Mesa, Arizona, has sheltered human beings for over 8000 years. For two decades, with the support and assistance of the Peabody Coal Company, archaeologists and other scientists have sought an understanding of how and why those ancient peoples lived as they did. Powell and Gumerman, the principal researchers of one of the largest and longest-running projects in the history of North American archaeology, recognize that only parts of past cultures survive to be discovered and analyzed, but they stress that the material items archaeologists do recover can tell us a great deal about the nonmaterial aspects of the culture in which they were used. In four cultural historical chapters Powell and Gumerman focus in turn on each of the major occupations of Black Mesa: the Archaic (6000 B.C.), Basketmaker II (ca. the time of Christ), Puebloan (A.D. 800-1150), and the Navajo (A.D. 1825 to the present). The 125 photographs, 41 line drawings by Thomas W. Gatlin, and 20 pages of full-color illustrations communicate the fascination of archaeological discovery and add an extra dimension to the authors' stories of ancient and modern life on Black Mesa.
Download or read book Chipped Stone Raw Materials and the Study of Interaction on Black Mesa Arizona written by Margerie Green and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anasazi Faunal Exploitation written by Robert D. Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Excavation on Black Mesa 1979 written by Shirley Powell and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Mesa Archaeological Investigations on Black Mesa written by George J. Gumerman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spatial Organization and Exchange written by Stephen Plog and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using data from approximately 45square miles of land on Black Mesa, Arizona, this book explores culture changes--particularly population increases and decreases--between A.D. 800 and 1150. Analyzing one of the largest archaeological surveys in the American Southwest, these studies go beyond previous efforts to explain culture changes in five ways. First, several hundred sites discovered in the survey are dated through analysis of small characteristics of designs on pottery. Second, patterns of population change are reconstructed more accurately by using dates from these studies. Third, changes in settlement types and locations help explain subsistence strategies of prehistoric people. Fourth, design characteristics on pottery and the nature of raw materials used to manufacture ceramic vessels and stone tools provide new information on social networks and exchange ties. Finally, the data are synthesized, providing new explanations of culture change.
Download or read book A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Vertebrate Faunal Remains from the Grasshopper Pueblo Arizona written by John Wilfred Olsen and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Excavations on Black Mesa 1980 written by Peter P. Andrews and published by Center for Archaeological Investigations. This book was released on 1982 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Function and Technology of Anasazi Ceramics from Black Mesa Arizona written by Marion F. Smith and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Quantitative Method for the Analysis of Faunal Remains from Archaeological Sites written by David Hurst Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perspectives On Southwestern Prehistory written by Paul Minnis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent archaeoglogical work in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico has fueled a great deal of regionally specific research: archaeologists, faced with an avalanche of new and unassimilated data, tend to foucs on their own areas to the exclusion of the broader, panregional view. "Perspectives on Southwestern Prehistory" advocates the larger f
