Download or read book Archeology and Ethnology on the Edges of the Atchafalaya Basin South Central Louisiana written by Jon L. Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archeology and Ethnology on the Edges of the Atchafalaya Basin South Central Louisiana A Cultural Resources Survey of the Atchafalaya Basin Protection Levees written by Jon L. Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 643 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural resources survey of the East and West Atchafalaya Basin Protection Levees investigated a total of 33 prehistoric and historic sites. Indian sites ranged in age from Archaic to Plaquemine, and historic sites from Contact to twentieth century. Ethnographic research showed the complexity of ethnic identity and the powerful influence of the Atchafalaya swamp in molding a rather unique subculture. A total of 12 cultural resources was recommended as significant, and mitigation recommendations were tendered. (Author).
Download or read book Atchafalaya Basin Floodway System written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seriation Stratigraphy and Index Fossils written by Michael J. O'Brien and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is difficult for today's students of archaeology to imagine an era when chronometric dating methods were unavailable. However, even a casual perusal of the large body of literature that arose during the first half of the twentieth century reveals a battery of clever methods used to determine the relative ages of archaeological phenomena, often with considerable precision. Stratigraphic excavation is perhaps the best known of the various relative-dating methods used by prehistorians. Although there are several techniques of using artifacts from superposed strata to measure time, these are rarely if ever differentiated. Rather, common practice is to categorize them under the heading `stratigraphic excavation'. This text distinguishes among the several techniques and argues that stratigraphic excavation tends to result in discontinuous measures of time - a point little appreciated by modern archaeologists. Although not as well known as stratigraphic excavation, two other methods of relative dating have figured important in Americanist archaeology: seriation and the use of index fossils. The latter (like stratigraphic excavation) measures time discontinuously, while the former - in various guises - measures time continuously. Perhaps no other method used in archaeology is as misunderstood as seriation, and the authors provide detailed descriptions and examples of each of its three different techniques. Each method and technique of relative dating is placed in historical perspective, with particular focus on developments in North America, an approach that allows a more complete understanding of the methods described, both in terms of analytical technique and disciplinary history. This text will appeal to all archaeologists, from graduate students to seasoned professionals, who want to learn more about the backbone of archaeological dating.
Download or read book The Louisiana and Arkansas Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore written by Clarence Bloomfield Moore and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth and final volume in the C.B. Moore reprint series that covers archaeological discoveries along North American Waterways.
Download or read book The Archeological Literature of the South Central United States Citations written by W. Fredrick Limp and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cultural Resources Investigations in the Terrebonne Marsh South central Louisiana written by Richard A. Weinstein and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Setting the Agenda for American Archaeology written by Michael J. O'Brien and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2001-08-09 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection elucidates the key role played by the National Research Council seminars, reports, and pamphlets in setting an agenda that has guided American archaeology in the 20th century.
Download or read book James A Ford and the Growth of Americanist Archaeology written by Michael John O'Brien and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Ford's role in the development of culture history, the dominant paradigm in archaeology from 1914 through 1960. Provides a glimpse of how archaeologists began using a variety of methods to attain spatial and temporal control over an exceedingly diverse and complex archaeological record. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Designing the Bayous written by Martin Reuss and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: :This history of the Atchafalaya Basin is an account of the transformation of an area that has endured perhaps more human manipulation than any other natural environment in the nation.
Download or read book Working the Field written by Jacques Henry and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working the Field: Accounts from French Louisiana records reflections on the fieldwork conducted in French Louisiana by a group of anthropologists and folklorists from Louisiana, the United States, Canada, and France between the 1970s and 2000. Contributors cast a critical look at the core anthropological concepts of field informants, and knowledge. Reassessing, they propose that the field, identities, and knowledge acquired are not set entities but rather are a matter of construction. Personal profiles of the researchers (native or outsider, activist or academic, man or woman, black or white) contribute to frame the investigations. Essays also illustrate the shifting of these identities during and after the research in response to personal, relational, and political circumstances. This volume is a vital addition to the body of work on French Louisiana and Cajun and Creole Culture, and it provides an understanding of the true nature of anthropological fieldwork that is of great value to anyone attemmpting to research in a modern setting.
Download or read book Spirit Wind written by Jon L. Gibson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age story set in the isolated, murky swamps of Louisiana When the mighty wind blows through the swamps of southern Louisiana, it changes not only the land, but the inhabitants as well. Just such a wind brought a lone infant into the care of the Chitimacha Indians deep in the Atchafalaya swamp. Raised by the tribal holy man, Storm Rider grows to adolescence as a respected tribal member, steeped in the wisdom and traditions of his adopted people. Their clan competitions, life-cycle rituals, social interactions, and subsistence labors are well explained in this historical novel. When captured by an enemy raiding party, Storm Rider and his nemesis, the village bully, forge a bond that delivers them from danger and charts their futures. Love, hate, friendship, and loyalty ride the dark bayou waters and converge at the sacred Rain Tree. Swamps, hurricanes, cannibals, and unforgettable characters are interwoven as tightly as one of old Cane Basket's watertight baskets in this anthropologically accurate story of American Indian cultures in conflict.
Download or read book Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America written by Timothy G. Baugh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Technical Abstract Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measuring the Flow of Time written by James A. Ford and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Ford's works focuses on the development of ceramic chronology--a key tool in Americanist archaeology.
Download or read book Phase 1 Cultural Resources Inventory of Public Access Lands in the Atchafalaya Basin Vicinity of the Sherburne Wildlife Management Area Pointe Coupee St Martin and Iberville Parishes Louisiana written by Hakon Vigander and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cultural Resources Survey of EABPL Off site Borrow Areas Levee Items E 64 E 76 and E 84a Iberville Iberia and Assumption Parishes Louisiana written by Todd McMakin and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
