Download or read book Progress in Skeletal Biology of Plains Populations written by Richard L. Jantz and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bioarchaeology written by Clark Spencer Larsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now including numerous full colour figures, this updated and revised edition of Larsen's classic text provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of bioarchaeology. Reflecting the enormous advances made in the field over the past twenty years, the author examines how this discipline has matured and evolved in fundamental ways. Jargon free and richly illustrated, the text is accompanied by copious case studies and references to underscore the central role that human remains play in the interpretation of life events and conditions of past and modern cultures. From the origins and spread of infectious disease to the consequences of decisions made by humans with regard to the kinds of foods produced, and their nutritional, health and behavioral outcomes. With local, regional, and global perspectives, this up-to-date text provides a solid foundation for all those working in the field.
Download or read book SKELETAL BIOLOGY IN GRT PLAINS written by OWSLEY DOUGLAS W and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1994-05-17 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a wide range of scholars assessing, this book offers a comprehensive and modern analysis of the archaeological record of both precontact and postcontact history in the Great Plains region.
Download or read book Archaeology on the Great Plains written by W. Raymond Wood and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1998-07-29 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to central Canada, North America's great interior grasslands were home to nomadic hunters and semisedentary farmers for almost 11,500 years before the arrival of Euro-American settlers. Pan-continental trade between these hunters and horticulturists helped make the lifeways of Plains Indians among the richest and most colorful of Native Americans. This volume is the first attempt to synthesize current knowledge on the cultural history of the Great Plains since Wedel's Prehistoric Man on the Great Plains became the standard reference on the subject almost forty years ago. Fourteen authors have undertaken the task of examining archaeological phenomena through time and by region to present a systematic overview of the region's human history. Focusing on habitat and cultural diversity and on the changing archaeological record, they reconstruct how people responded to the varying environment, climate, and biota of the grasslands to acquire the resources they needed to survive. The contributors have analyzed archaeological artifacts and other evidence to present a systematic overview of human history in each of the five key Plains regions: Southern, Central, Middle Missouri, Northeastern, and Northwestern. They review the Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Woodland, and Plains Village peoples and tell how their cultural traditions have continued from ancient to modern times. Each essay covers technology, diet, settlement, and adaptive patterns to give readers an understanding of the differences and similarities among groups. The story of Plains peoples is brought into historical focus by showing the impacts of Euro-American contact, notably acquisition of the horse and exposure to new diseases. Featuring 85 maps and illustrations, Archaeology on the Great Plains is an exceptional introduction to the field for students and an indispensable reference for specialists. It enhances our understanding of how the Plains shaped the adaptive strategies of peoples through time and fosters a greater appreciation for their cultures.
Download or read book Prehistoric Hunter Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies written by Marcel Kornfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive revision of the classic prehistory of the North American high plains.
Download or read book New Directions in American Indian History written by Colin Gordon Calloway and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year more than five hundred new books appear in the field of North American Indian history. There exists, however, no means by which scholars can easily judge which are most significant, which explore new fields of inquiry and ask new questions, and which areas are the subject of especially strong inquiry or are being overlooked. New Directions in American Indian History provides some answers to these questions by bringing together a collection of bibliographic essays by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, religionists, linguists, economists, and legal scholars who are working at the cutting edge of Indian history. This volume responds to the label "new directions" in two ways. First, it describes what new directions have been pursued recently by historians of the Indian experience. Second, it points out some new directions that remain to be pursued. Part One, "Recent Trends," contains six essays reviewing the following six areas where there has been significant interest and activity: quantitative methods in Native American history, by Melissa L. Meyer and Russell Thornton; American Indian women, by Deborah Welch; new developments in Métis history, by Dennis F.K. Madill; recent developments in southern plains Indian history, by Willard Rollings; Indians and the law, by George S. Grossman; and twentieth-century Indian history, by James Riding In. Part Two, "Emerging Trends," contains essays on aspects of Indian history that remain undeveloped: language study and Plains Indian history, by Douglas R. Parks; economics and American Indian history, by Ronald L. Trosper; and religious changes in Native American societies, by Robert A. Brightman. These latter essays present a critique of current scholarship and sketch an agenda for future inquiry. Taken together, the nine essays in this book will help students at all levels to evaluate recent scholarship and tap the immense contemporary literature on American Indian history.
Download or read book Skeletal Biology and Bioarchaeology of the Northwestern Plains written by George W. Gill and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that clarifies the emerging picture of Northwestern Plains prehistory and early history as told by human bones in skeletal and burial records that span thousands of years and a wide geographic expanse, providing important evidence of human existence in this vast region of North America.
Download or read book Kansas Archaeology written by Robert J. Hoard and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2006 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesizes what is known about the cultural (human) history of Kansas from 10,000 B.C. to the nineteenth century. This significant contribution to Plains archaeology provides the reader with the first comprehensive overview of the subject in nearly fifty years.
Download or read book Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plains Anthropologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Skeletal Attribution of Race written by George W. Gill and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of forensic anthropology has become increasingly important to other forensic scientists and to the public since the 1970s. Compiled from a symposium organised by the Mountain, Desert, and Coastal Forensic Anthropologists, this is one of the few book-length works devoted entirely to the determination of racial affiliation from skeletal remains. It is valuable for its graphic images of variation in skull and face form and covers a wide range of techniques for determining ancestry in unknown individuals. This is a great book for students of forensic anthropology.
Download or read book Bioarcheology of the North Central United States written by Douglas W. Owsley and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Journal of Physical Anthropology written by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A World Together a World Apart written by J. Wendel Cox and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Central Plains Prehistory written by Waldo Rudolph Wedel and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook of North American Indians written by William C. Sturtevant and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic summary of prehistory, history, cultures and political and social aspects of native peoples.
Download or read book Ethnographic Bibliography of North America 4th Edition Citations written by M. Marlene Martin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
