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Book The Navajo History and Archaeology of East Central Black Mesa  Arizona

Download or read book The Navajo History and Archaeology of East Central Black Mesa Arizona written by Scott C. Russell and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book People of the Mesa

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  • Author : Shirley Powell
  • Publisher : Southern Illinois University Press
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

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.

Book Archaeology of Black Mesa  Arizona

Download or read book Archaeology of Black Mesa Arizona written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A View from Black Mesa

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

Book Papers on the Archaeology of Black Mesa  Arizona

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 1976 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Mesa is a large elevated land mass which comprises a part of the Navajo and Hopi Indian reservations in the northeast corner of Arizona--one of the few large areas in the Southwest which had seldom seen the archaeologist's shovel until the Black Mesa Project. Because of this paucity of excavation, scholars have pointed for years to Black Mesa as the source of many unanswered questions about the prehistory of the surrounding regions. This third volume, Papers on the Archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona, edited by George J. Gumerman and Robert C. Euler, continues in the series' tradition to unearth solutions to major archaeological problems long buried on Black Mesa: Who were the inhabitants? How did they live? Why did they abandon Northeastern Black Mesa? What is the cultural relationship of the Black Mesa prehistoric people to the Mesa Verde and Chaco branches? Contributing penetrating explanations and theories to these and other questions, in addition to the editors, are: Leonard W. Blake, Robert T. Clemen, Hugh C. Cutler, Charles L. Douglas, Thor N. V. Karlstrom, Steven E. Sessions, Alan C. Swedlund, and Albert E. Ward. Rich in explications and new dimensions to the prehistory of Black Mesa and the sur­rounding area, this third volume in the Black Mesa series is destined to be an invaluable reference for students and scholars of archaeology and cultural history specializing in the American Southwest.

Book Black Mesa Coal Mining  Navajo Project

Download or read book Black Mesa Coal Mining Navajo Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Navajo Multi household Social Units

Download or read book Navajo Multi household Social Units written by Thomas R. Rocek and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Furthermore, attention to middle-level units is critical for understanding household or community-level organization, because the flexibility they offer can fundamentally alter the behavior of social units of larger or smaller scale.

Book Black Mesa Basin

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  • Author : New Mexico Geological Society
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958-09-01
  • ISBN : 9781585460397
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Black Mesa Basin written by New Mexico Geological Society and published by . This book was released on 1958-09-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mobility and Adaptation

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."

Book Mobility and Sedentism

Download or read book Mobility and Sedentism written by Belinda Blomberg and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau

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.

Book Anasazi Settlement and Adaptation on the North Rim of Black Mesa  Arizona

Download or read book Anasazi Settlement and Adaptation on the North Rim of Black Mesa Arizona written by Anthony L. Klesert and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Mesa  the Angel of Death

Download or read book Black Mesa the Angel of Death written by Suzanne Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unreal City

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  • Author : Judith Nies
  • Publisher : Bold Type Books
  • Release : 2014-04-08
  • ISBN : 1568587481
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Unreal City written by Judith Nies and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic struggle over land, water, and power is erupting in the American West and the halls of Washington, DC. It began when a 4,000-square-mile area of Arizona desert called Black Mesa was divided between the Hopi and Navajo tribes. To the outside world, it was a land struggle between two fractious Indian tribes; to political insiders and energy corporations, it was a divide-and-conquer play for the 21 billion tons of coal beneath Black Mesa. Today, that coal powers cheap electricity for Los Angeles, a new water aqueduct into Phoenix, and the neon dazzle of Las Vegas. Journalist and historian Judith Nies has been tracking this story for nearly four decades. She follows the money and tells us the true story of wealth and water, mendacity, and corruption at the highest levels of business and government. Amid the backdrop of the breathtaking desert landscape, Unreal City shows five cultures colliding—Hopi, Navajo, global energy corporations, Mormons, and US government agencies—resulting in a battle over resources and the future of the West. Las Vegas may attract 39 million visitors a year, but the tourists mesmerized by the dancing water fountains at the Bellagio don’t ask where the water comes from. They don’t see a city with the nation’s highest rates of foreclosure, unemployment, and suicide. They don’t see the astonishing drop in the water level of Lake Mead—where Sin City gets 90 percent of its water supply. Nies shows how the struggle over Black Mesa lands is an example of a global phenomenon in which giant transnational corporations have the power to separate indigenous people from their energy-rich lands with the help of host governments. Unreal City explores how and why resources have been taken from native lands, what it means in an era of climate change, and why, in this city divorced from nature, the only thing more powerful than money is water.