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Book Archaeology of Southern Urban Landscapes

Download or read book Archaeology of Southern Urban Landscapes written by Amy L Young and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2000-10-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy L. Young is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Mississippi. ...

Book Arkansas Archaeology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert C. Mainfort
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 1999-11-01
  • ISBN : 1557285713
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Arkansas Archaeology written by Robert C. Mainfort and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arkansas has long been recognized as a state with a rich archaeological heritage that is unsurpassed in North America. The Toltec Mounds were made famous by the Smithsonian's research at the turn of the century. The Sloan site, dated to 8500 B.C., is the oldest documented burial ground in the New World. The alluvial plain of the central Mississippi River valley supported perhaps the greatest prehistoric urban population. And the Parkin site has yielded important information about the de Soto incursion into the continent. This festschrift recognizes the contributions made in researching this varied heritage by Dan and Phyllis Morse from the inception of the Arkansas Archeological Survey in 1967 to their retirement in 1997. The essays were prepared by thirteen of their colleagues, recognized experts in archaeology and related fields, and represent state-of-the-art knowledge about Arkansas's archaeology. The topics range broadly: from prehistoric environments and regional syntheses to specialized studies of specific culture periods and historical archaeology. Paul and Hazel Delcourt and Roger Saucier provide a chapter that will serve as a standard reference for many years on Holocene environments; Chris Gillam's contribution demonstrates the utility of Geographic Information Systems in broad-scale pattern analysis; Robert Mainfort uses large collections of ceramics to show that traditional methods for grouping Late Mississippian sites are insufficient; Michael Hoffman introduces a new line of evidence from old newspaper accounts; and Frank Schambach, in reinterpreting the spectacular Spiro site in eastern Oklahoma, gives us a powerful, classic example of archaeological and ethnohistoric interpretation. This volume will, of course, be of great interest to professional archaeologists and anthropologists, but the essays are also accessible to students, amateur archaeologists, historians, and enthusiastic general readers. As the new millennium dawns, this book celebrates the legacy of two very distinguished careers in archaeology and heralds the proliferation of innovative new approaches and techniques for the continuing study of Arkansas's prehistoric peoples.

Book Time s River

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet Rafferty
  • Publisher : University of Alabama Press
  • Release : 2008-07-21
  • ISBN : 0817354891
  • Pages : 567 pages

Download or read book Time s River written by Janet Rafferty and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2008-07-21 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeologically rich region, in advance of impending disturbance

Book Archaeology of Urban America

Download or read book Archaeology of Urban America written by Roy S. Dickens and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology of Urban America: The Search for Pattern and Process is composed of three parts, namely, Strategies and Methods; Site Formation, Structure, and Pattern; and Artifact Analysis and Interpretation. The Strategies and Methods section centers on the general questions asked by urban archaeologists, as well as on the ways they design their research to elucidate those questions. The Site Formation, Structure, and Pattern section is generally comprised of chapters classified as ""test cases"" emphasizing the approaches, interpretation, and even direct extension of larger research designs. Lastly, the Artifact Analysis and Interpretation section deals with intersite and intrasite patterning of artifact assemblages, as well as with specific class of artifacts. This material will help stimulate a dialogue among archaeologists who have chosen the American city as their subject. This book will also be useful to urban sociologists, economists, cultural anthropologists, and historians.

Book Method and Theory in Historical Archeology

Download or read book Method and Theory in Historical Archeology written by Stanley A. South and published by Eliot Werner Publications/Percheron Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A welcome reprint of Stanley South's classic book on historical archaeology, originally written for a North American audience but as relevant to scholars working on industrial and historical archaeology in the Old World. One of the two or three most influential books in historical archaeology.

Book Industry and Technology in Antebellum Tennessee

Download or read book Industry and Technology in Antebellum Tennessee written by R. Bruce Council and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Archaeology. No further description available.