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Book Earl Morris   Southwestern Archaeology

Download or read book Earl Morris Southwestern Archaeology written by Florence Cline Lister and published by Western National Parks Association. This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint edition of this important look at the life and times of one of the true pioneers of Southwest archeology. Includes a new preface by Florence C. Lister. Historical photos. Includes index.

Book Prehistoric Sandals from Northeastern Arizona

Download or read book Prehistoric Sandals from Northeastern Arizona written by Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1920s and early 1930s, archaeologists Earl and Ann Axtell Morris discovered an abundance of sandals from the Basketmaker II and III through Pueblo III periods while excavating rockshelters in northeastern Arizona. These densely twined sandals made of yucca yarn were intricately crafted and elaborately decorated, and Earl Morris spent the next 25 years overseeing their analysis, description, and illustration. This is the first full published report on this unusual find, which remains one of the largest collections of sandals in Southwestern archaeology. This monograph offers an integrated archaeological and technical study of the footwear, providing for the first time a full-scale analysis of the complicated weave structures they represent. Following an account by anthropologist Elizabeth Ann Morris of her parents' research, textile authority Ann Cordy Deegan gives an overview of prehistoric Puebloan sandal types and of twined sandal construction techniques, revealing the subtleties distinguishing Basketmaker sandals of different time periods. Anthropologist Kelley Ann Hays-Gilpin then discusses the decoration of twined sandals and speculates on the purpose of such embellishment.

Book Digging in the Southwest

Download or read book Digging in the Southwest written by Ann Axtell Morris and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about Jock Campbell's role in the shaping of British Guiana (Guyana) towards the end of the empire. Campbell, the head of the Booker Company which owned most of the sugar plantations in colonial Guyana, was a reformer whose Fabian socialist beliefs drove him to secure major benefits for sugar workers, in the 1950s-60s. It explores the interplay between Campbell's programme of reforms and the doctrinaire Marxism of Guyana's charismatic politician Cheddi Jagan. "Sweetening bitter sugar" is part biography, part history and politics.

Book Great Excavations

Download or read book Great Excavations written by Melinda Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificent ruins of the prehistoric peoples of the American Southwest have always been a source of wonder and awe. But the stories of the men and women who devoted their lives to the discovery and study of these lost cultures and the places they called home have never before been adequately told. Now, in Great Excavations, journalist and researcher Melinda Elliott uncovers the crucial and exciting role played by the great archaeologists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in unearthing the Southwest's prehistoric past. With chapters on Mesa Verde, Pecos Pueblo, Aztec Ruin, Hawikuh, Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, Snaketown, Awatovi, and the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition.

Book Digging in the Southwest

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann A. Morris
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004-05-04
  • ISBN : 9781589762640
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Digging in the Southwest written by Ann A. Morris and published by . This book was released on 2004-05-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Ann Morris graduated from Smith College, she married Earl Halstead Morris, and together they became the glamour couple of 1920s American archaeology, living in a tent in Arizona's Canyon of the Dead for a season. In an era when wives rarely accompanied their scientist husbands into the field, Ann Morris was a trailblazer. This book covers their travels and digs during 1923-24 in a fun, almost breezy, style.

Book The Aztec Ruin

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  • Author : Earl H. Morris
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-02
  • ISBN : 9781258545635
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book The Aztec Ruin written by Earl H. Morris and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shovel Ready

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  • Author : Bernard K. Means
  • Publisher : University of Alabama Press
  • Release : 2013-01-25
  • ISBN : 0817357181
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Shovel Ready written by Bernard K. Means and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in March 1933 with the excavation of the Marksville mound site in Louisiana, and throughout the next decade, ordinary citizens labored in New Deal jobs programs and participated in archaeological excavations across the United States. Under the auspices of work relief programs, people were provided the opportunity to explore and document American Indian villages and mounds, important historic places, and homes associated with events and people critical to the foundation of the country.

Book EARL MORRIS   SOUTHWESTERN ARCHAEOLOGY

Download or read book EARL MORRIS SOUTHWESTERN ARCHAEOLOGY written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Among Ancient Ruins

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  • Author : University of Colorado (System). Museum
  • Publisher : Johnson Publishing Company
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN : 9780933472945
  • Pages : 94 pages

Download or read book Among Ancient Ruins written by University of Colorado (System). Museum and published by Johnson Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mesa of Sorrows  A History of the Awat ovi Massacre

Download or read book Mesa of Sorrows A History of the Awat ovi Massacre written by James F. Brooks and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scrupulously researched investigation of the mysterious massacre of Hopi Indians at Awat'ovi, and the event's echo through American history. The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700—raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi, slaughtering their neighboring men, women, and children. While little of the pueblo itself remains, five centuries of history lie beneath the low rises of sandstone masonry, and theories about the events of that night are as persistent as the desert winds. The easternmost town on Antelope Mesa, Awat’ovi was renowned for its martial strength, and had been the gateway to the entire Hopi landscape for centuries. Why did kinsmen target it for destruction? Drawing on oral traditions, archival accounts, and extensive archaeological research, James Brooks unravels the story and its significance. Mesa of Sorrows follows the pattern of an archaeological expedition, uncovering layer after layer of evidence and theories. Brooks questions their reliability and shows how interpretations were shaped by academic, religious and tribal politics. Piecing together three centuries of investigation, he offers insight into why some were spared—women, mostly, and taken captive—and others sacrificed. He weighs theories that the attack was in retribution for Awat’ovi having welcomed Franciscan missionaries or for the residents’ practice of sorcery, and argues that a perfect storm of internal and external crises revitalized an ancient cycle of ritual bloodshed and purification. A haunting account of a shocking massacre, Mesa of Sorrows is a probing exploration of how societies confront painful histories, and why communal violence still plagues us today.

Book Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology

Download or read book Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology written by Dries Daems and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology turns to complex systems thinking in search of a suitable framework to explore social complexity in Archaeology. Social complexity in archaeology is commonly related to properties of complex societies such as states, as opposed to so-called simple societies such as tribes or chiefdoms. These conceptualisations of complexity are ultimately rooted in Eurocentric perspectives with problematic implications for the field of archaeology. This book provides an in-depth conceptualisation of social complexity as the core concept in archaeological and interdisciplinary studies of the past, integrating approaches from complex systems thinking, archaeological theory, social practice theory, and sustainability and resilience science. The book covers a long-term perspective of social change and stability, tracing the full cycle of complexity trajectories, from emergence and development to collapse, regeneration and transformation of communities and societies. It offers a broad vision on social complexity as a core concept for the present and future development of archaeology. This book is intended to be a valuable resource for students and scholars in the field of archaeology and related disciplines such as history, anthropology, sociology, as well as the natural sciences studying human-environment interactions in the past.

Book Digging in Yucatan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Axtell Morris
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1937
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Digging in Yucatan written by Ann Axtell Morris and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Human Adaptations and Cultural Change in the Greater Southwest

Download or read book Human Adaptations and Cultural Change in the Greater Southwest written by Alan H. Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The First American

Download or read book The First American written by C. W. Ceram and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most complete and interesting one-volume source on the people of the American continents before Columbus.

Book The Temple of the Warriors at Chichen Itz    Yucatan  Description of the Temple of the Warriors and edifices related thereto

Download or read book The Temple of the Warriors at Chichen Itz Yucatan Description of the Temple of the Warriors and edifices related thereto written by Earl Halstead Morris and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Swarts Ruin

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  • Author : Harriet S. Cosgrove
  • Publisher : Peabody Museum Press
  • Release : 2012-01-16
  • ISBN : 0873652142
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book The Swarts Ruin written by Harriet S. Cosgrove and published by Peabody Museum Press. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic volume on the evocative and enigmatic pottery of the Mimbres people has become an irreplaceable design catalogue for contemporary Native American artists. The Peabody’s reissue of The Swarts Ruin once again makes available a rich resource for scholars, artists, and admirers of Native American art.

Book The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant

Download or read book The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant written by Raphael Greenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date, systematic depiction of Bronze Age societies of the Levant, their evolution, and their interactions and entanglements with neighboring regions.