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Book A View from Black Mesa

    Book Details:
  • Author : George J. Gumerman
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release : 1992-07-01
  • ISBN : 9780816513406
  • Pages : 204 pages

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 204 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 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

    Book Details:
  • 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 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 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 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 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.

Book Spatial Organization and Exchange

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.

Book Prehistoric Stone Technology on Northern Black Mesa  Arizona

Download or read book Prehistoric Stone Technology on Northern Black Mesa Arizona written by William J. Parry and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book NAGPRA and Archaeology on Black Mesa  Arizona

Download or read book NAGPRA and Archaeology on Black Mesa Arizona written by Kimberly Spurr and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory

Download or read book Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory written by Linda S. Cordell and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2006-05-28 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging from a School of American Research, this work reviews the general status of archaeological knowledge in 9 key regions of the Southwest to examine broader questions of cultural development, which affected the Southwest as a whole, and to consider an overall conceptual model of the prehistoric Southwest after the advent of sedentism.

Book Function and Technology of Anasazi Ceramics from Black Mesa  Arizona

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:

Book The Anasazi in a Changing Environment

Download or read book The Anasazi in a Changing Environment written by George J. Gumerman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-10-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outline of a 1000 year chronicle of environmental and cultural history which attempts to explain broad patterns of interaction between humans and their environment. It uses North American geological and botanical remains, and looks at the behaviour of the Anasazi - prehistoric Pueblo Indians.

Book Encyclopedia of Prehistory

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Prehistory written by Peter N. Peregrine and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents temporal dimension. Major traditions are an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory of humankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries, but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world's and kinship ties play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and time periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con The Encyclopedia is organized accord texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties are central to defining ethno is defined as a group of populations sharing logical cultures.

Book Managing Pi  on juniper Ecosystems for Sustainability and Social Needs

Download or read book Managing Pi on juniper Ecosystems for Sustainability and Social Needs written by Earl F. Aldon and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: