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Book 1975 and 1978 Rescue Excavations at the Draper Site

Download or read book 1975 and 1978 Rescue Excavations at the Draper Site written by William David Finlayson and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excavation report on the Draper site, a fifteenth century Huron village located approximately 35km northeast of Toronto, Ontario which was threatened with destruction by the proposed construction of the new Toronto International Airport.

Book Rescue Excavations at the Draper Site  1975 and 1978   Introduction and Settlement Patterns

Download or read book Rescue Excavations at the Draper Site 1975 and 1978 Introduction and Settlement Patterns written by Archaeological Survey of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The 1975 and 1978 Rescue Excavations at the Draper Site

Download or read book The 1975 and 1978 Rescue Excavations at the Draper Site written by William David Finlayson and published by National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada. This book was released on 1985 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Draper site is a 15th century Huron village located about 35 km northeast of Toronto, Ontario. This document provides an introduction to the excavations and a description, analysis, and interpretation of the settlement pattern data. It describes the environment and history of the investigations, the 1975 and 1978 investigations, and computerized systems for archaeological data; gives detailed information on the palisades, middens, and longhouses of each segment of the settlement; and gives comparisons and interpretations of the main village, the south field, and the relationship of House 42 to the main village. Appendices include procedures for the cataloguing of archaeological specimens, guidelines for the recording of Iroquoian settlement pattern data, and computer codes for catalogue data and settlement patterns.

Book Nineteen Seventy Five and 1978 Rescue Excavations At the Draper Site   Introduction and Settlement Patterns

Download or read book Nineteen Seventy Five and 1978 Rescue Excavations At the Draper Site Introduction and Settlement Patterns written by National Museum of Man (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America

Download or read book Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America written by Guy E. Gibbon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. Did prehistoric humans walk to North America from Siberia? Who were the inhabitants of the spectacular Anasazi cliff dwellings in the Southwest and why did they disappear? Native Americans used acorns as a major food source, but how did they get rid of the tannic acid which is toxic to humans? How does radiocarbon dating work and how accurate is it? Written for the informed lay person, college-level student, and professional, Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia is an important resource for the study of the earliest North Americans; including facts, theories, descriptions, and speculations on the ancient nomads and hunter-gathers that populated continental North America.

Book Calvert Site

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Andrew Timmins
  • Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
  • Release : 1997-01-01
  • ISBN : 1772821500
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Calvert Site written by Peter Andrew Timmins and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in the Thames River valley of southwestern Ontario, the Calvert site encompasses a variety of structures including houses, palisade walls, pits, hearths, and artifacts. This inquiry reveals an orderly evolution in its occupation history and sheds new light on the earliest period of ancient Iroquoian history.

Book City Walls

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  • Author : James D. Tracy
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2000-09-25
  • ISBN : 9780521652216
  • Pages : 732 pages

Download or read book City Walls written by James D. Tracy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-25 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays presented in this volume, first published in 2000, describe a phenomenon so widespread in human time and space that its importance is easily overlooked. City walls shaped the history of warfare; the mobilisation of manpower and resources needed to build them favoured some kinds of polities over others; and their massive strength, appropriately ornamented, created a visual language of authority. Previous collective volumes on the subject have dealt mainly with Europe, but the historians and art historians who collaborate here follow a comparative agenda. The millennial practice of wall building that branched out from the ancient Near East into India, Europe, and North Africa shows continuities and points of contact of which the makers of urban fortifications were scarcely aware; separate traditions in China, sub-Saharan Africa, and North America illustrate universal themes of defensive strategy and the symbolism of power, each time embedded in a distinctive local context.

Book Archaeology of the Iroquois

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  • Author : Jordan E. Kerber
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 2007-07-19
  • ISBN : 9780815631392
  • Pages : 616 pages

Download or read book Archaeology of the Iroquois written by Jordan E. Kerber and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume offers a compilation of twenty-four articles covering a wide spectrum of topics in Iroquoian archaeology. Culled from leading publications, the pieces collectively represent the current state of knowledge and research in the field. A comprehensive research bibliography with more than 500 entries will be a key resource for specialists and non-specialists alike. Both text and bibliography are structured in five sections: Origins; Precolumbian Dynamics; Postcolumbian Dynamics; Material Culture Studies; and Contemporary Iroquois Perspectives, Repatriation, and Collaborative Archaeology. Along with seminal essays by major figures in regional archaeology, the book includes responses by Haudenosaunee writers to the political context of contemporary archaeological work. This collection will prove indispensable to scholars in all areas of Iroquois studies, students and teachers of Iroquoian archaeology, and professional and avocational archaeologists in the United States and Canada.

Book The Mantle Site

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  • Author : Jennifer Birch
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2015-03-04
  • ISBN : 075912101X
  • Pages : 209 pages

Download or read book The Mantle Site written by Jennifer Birch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed analysis of a completely excavated northern Iroquoian community, a sixteenth-century ancestral Wendat village on the north shore of Lake Ontario. The site resulted from the coalescence of multiple small villages into one well-planned and well-integrated community. Jennifer Birch and Ronald F. Williamson frame the development of this community in the context of a historical sequence of site relocations. The social processes that led to its formation, the political and economic lives of its inhabitants, and their relationships to other populations in northeastern North America are explored using multiple scales of analysis. This book is key for those interested in the history and archaeology of eastern North America, the social, political, and economic organization of Iroquoian societies, the archaeology of communities, and processes of settlement aggregation.

Book Archaeology and Preservation of Gendered Landscapes

Download or read book Archaeology and Preservation of Gendered Landscapes written by Sherene Baugher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical archaeology of landscapes initially followed the pattern of Classical Archaeology by studying elite men's gardens. Over time, particularly in North America, the field has expanded to cover larger settlement areas, but still often with ungendered and elite focus. The editors of this volume seek to fill this important gap in the literature by presenting studies of gendered power dynamics and their effect on minority groups in North America. Case studies presented include communities of Native Americans, African Americans, multi-ethnic groups, religious communities, and industrial communities. Just as the research focus has previously neglected the groups presented here, so too has funding to preserve important archaeological sites. As the contributors to this important volume present a new framework for understanding the archaeology of religious and social minority groups, they also demonstrate the importance of preserving the cultural landscapes, particularly of minority groups, from destruction by the modern dominant culture. A full and complete picture of cultural preservation has to include all of the groups that interacted form it.

Book Huron Wendat

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  • Author : Georges E. Sioui
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2011-11-01
  • ISBN : 0774842040
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Huron Wendat written by Georges E. Sioui and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Georges Sioui, who is himself Wendat, redeems the original name of his people and tells their centuries-old history by describing their social ideas and philosophy and the relevance of both to contemporary life. The question he poses is a simple one: after centuries of European and then other North American contact and interpretation, isn't it now time to return to the original sources, that is to the ideas and practices of indigenous peoples like the Wendats, as told and interpreted by indigenous people like himself?

Book History of the Native People of Canada  Volume III  A D  500     European Contact

Download or read book History of the Native People of Canada Volume III A D 500 European Contact written by James Vallière Wright and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 1 of the final volume of A History of the Native People of Canada treats eastern Canada and the southern Subarctic regions of the Prairies from A.D. 500 to European contact. It examines the association of archaeological sites with the Native peoples recorded in European documents and particularly the agricultural revolution of the Iroquoian people of the Lower Great Lakes and Upper St. Lawrence River. Part 2 was never completed, as the author passed away.

Book Iroquoian Archaeology and Analytic Scale

Download or read book Iroquoian Archaeology and Analytic Scale written by Laurie E. Miroff and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A more robust archaeological interpretation can be produced if a multiscalar approach is brought to bear on the study of the past. In Iroquoian Archaeology and Analytic Scale, ten contributors conducting studies of groups centered around New York State and southern Ontario present contemporary research focused not only on examining the role of scale and how it impacts the field of Iroquoian studies, but also how archaeologists studying other Native Americans can expand their own research. Specifically, the contributors employ a variety of spatial, temporal, and methodological scales to reveal patterns and insights into the cultural interactions that might otherwise be missed by a less multiscalar approach. Furthermore, the diversity of research spans nearly a millennium, from A.D. 900 to 1800, and encompasses several different topographical settings, including major river floodplains, upland headwater areas, and terraces along smaller tributaries, yielding a plethora of current findings from the largest of villages to the smallest of seasonal campsites. Laurie E. Miroff and Timothy D. Knapp have organized these essays in roughly chronological fashion and provide an introduction that addresses the importance of a multiscalar analysis. This volume of Iroquoian-specific yet wide-ranging essays will be of interest to anyone specializing in Native American studies in the Northeast. It will also benefit archaeologists who wish to gain a better understanding of how using a multiscalar approach in their own research can be an integral step toward a more dynamic view of the Native American lived experience. Laurie E. Miroff is an adjunct professor of anthropology at Binghamton University and a project director at the Public Archaeology Facility, Binghamton University. She is associate editor of Northeast Anthropology, and her articles have appeared in Northeast Historical Archaeology and other journals. Timothy D. Knapp is Assistant to the Director for Prehistoric Research at the Public Archaeology Facility at Binghamton University.

Book Archaeological Heritage Management

Download or read book Archaeological Heritage Management written by Henry Cleere and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book results from discussions at the 1982 World Archaeological Congress on 'Public Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management'. It brings to everyone's notice the common need of a coherent, well-planned response to the potentially destructive threats of development and tourism to archaeology.

Book The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas written by Bruce G. Trigger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-13 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.

Book Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology

Download or read book Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology written by Eric Jones and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2017-01-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology examines Northern Iroquoian archaeology through various lenses at multiple spatial levels, including individual households, village constructions, relationships between villages in a local region, and relationships between various Iroquoian nations and their territorial homelands. The volume includes scholars and scholarship from both sides of the US-Canadian border, presenting a contextualized analysis of settlement and landscape for a broad range of past Northern Iroquoian societies. The research in this volume represents a new wave of spatial research—exploring beyond settlement patterning to the process and the meaning behind spatial arrangement of past communities and people—and describes new approaches being used for better understanding of past Northern Iroquoian societies. Addressing topics ranging from household task-scapes and gender relations to bioarchaeology and social network analysis, Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology demonstrates the vitality of current archaeological research into ancestral Northern Iroquoian societies and its growing contribution to wider debates in North American archaeology. This cutting-edge research will be of interest to archaeologists globally, as well as academics and graduate students studying Northern Iroquoian societies and cultures, geography, and spatial analysis. Contributors: Kathleen M. S. Allen, Jennifer A. Birch, William Engelbrecht, Crystal Forrest, John P. Hart, Sandra Katz, Robert H. Pihl, Aleksandra Pradzynski, Erin C. Rodriguez, Dean R. Snow, Ronald F. Williamson, Rob Wojtowicz

Book The Moundbuilders  Ancient Societies of Eastern North America  Second Edition

Download or read book The Moundbuilders Ancient Societies of Eastern North America Second Edition written by George R. Milner and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought up to date with the latest research, The Moundbuilders is the definitive visual guide to North America’s eastern region and the societies that forever changed its landscape. Hailed by Bruce D. Smith, curator of North American archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution, as “without question the best available book on the pre-Columbian . . . societies of eastern North America,” this wide-ranging and richly illustrated volume covers the entire prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands and the thousands of earthen mounds that can be found there, built between 3100 BCE and 1600 CE. The second edition of The Moundbuilders has been brought fully up-to-date, with the latest research on the peopling of the Americas, including more coverage of pre-Clovis groups, new material on Native American communities in the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries CE, and new narratives of migration drawn from ancient and modern DNA. Far-reaching and illustrated throughout, this book is the perfect visual guide to the region for students, tourists, archaeologists, and anyone interested in ancient American history.