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:
Download or read book Excavations on Black Mesa 1982 written by Deborah L. Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book Navajo Multi household Social Units written by Thomas R. Rocek and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rigorous and innovative study, Thomas R. Rocek examines the 150-year-old ethnohistorical and archaeological record of Navajo settlement on Black Mesa in northern Arizona. Rocek's study, the first of its kind, not only reveals a rich array of interacting factors that have helped to shape Navajo life during this period but also constructs a valuable case study in archaeological method and theory, certain to be useful to other researchers of nonurban societies. Rocek explores a neglected but major source of social flexibility in these societies. While many studies have focused on household and community-level organization, few have examined the flexible, intermediate-sized, "middle-level" cooperative units that bind small groups of households together. Middle-level units, says the author, must be recognized as important sources of social flexibility in many such cultural contexts. Futhermore, 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 a larger or smaller scale. In examining the archaeological record of Navajo settlement, Rocek develops archaeological methods for examing multiple-household social units (variously called "outfits or "cooperating groups") through spatial analysis, investigates evidence of change in middle-level units over time, relates these changes to economic and demographic flux, and compares the Navajo case study to the broader ethnographic literature of middle-level units. Rocek finds similarities with social organization in non-unilineally organized societies, in groups that have been traditionally described as characterized by network organization, and particularly in pastoral societies. The results of Rocek's study offer a new perspective on variability in Navajo social organization while suggesting general patterns of the response of social groups to change. Rocek's work will be of significant interest not only to those with a professional interest in Navajo history and culture, but also, for its methodological insights, to a far broader range of archaeologists, social anthropologists, ethnohistorians, ethnoarchaeologists, historians, cultural geographers, and political scientists.
Download or read book Black Mesa Kayenta Mine Proposed Permit Application for Operation in Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations D F Maps to the Draft EIS written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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 1976 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Mesa is a large elevated land mass which comprises a part of the Navajo and Hopi Indian reservations in the northeast corner of Arizona--one of the few large areas in the Southwest which had seldom seen the archaeologist's shovel until the Black Mesa Project. Because of this paucity of excavation, scholars have pointed for years to Black Mesa as the source of many unanswered questions about the prehistory of the surrounding regions. This third volume, Papers on the Archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona, edited by George J. Gumerman and Robert C. Euler, continues in the series' tradition to unearth solutions to major archaeological problems long buried on Black Mesa: Who were the inhabitants? How did they live? Why did they abandon Northeastern Black Mesa? What is the cultural relationship of the Black Mesa prehistoric people to the Mesa Verde and Chaco branches? Contributing penetrating explanations and theories to these and other questions, in addition to the editors, are: Leonard W. Blake, Robert T. Clemen, Hugh C. Cutler, Charles L. Douglas, Thor N. V. Karlstrom, Steven E. Sessions, Alan C. Swedlund, and Albert E. Ward. Rich in explications and new dimensions to the prehistory of Black Mesa and the surrounding area, this third volume in the Black Mesa series is destined to be an invaluable reference for students and scholars of archaeology and cultural history specializing in the American Southwest.
Download or read book Spider Woman Walks this Land written by Kelli Carmean and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2002 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General readers and undergraduate students who are interested in archaeology are often put off by the mass of detail they find in any but the most introductory account. Therefore, Carmean (anthropology and archaeology, Eastern Kentucky U.) offers an account of archaeological work and findings on the Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona that discusses some difficult issues, but refers readers to other sources for the mass of underlying data. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Kayenta Anasazi Archaeology on Central Black Mesa Northeastern Arizona written by Navajo Nation Cultural Resource Management Program and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 199 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
Download or read book Archaeological Chronometry written by F. E. Smiley and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All archaeologists face chronometric interpretive problems in developing and refining chronology. This volume addresses such problems in terms of radiocarbon and tree rings, providing both data sets and models for the interpretation of information. It is designed to serve at various levels as a guide for interpreting chronological data from archaeological contexts. It presents the results of almost 20 years of field research on Black Mesa, Arizona, that involved both chronometry and chronology.
Download or read book A Din History of Navajoland written by Klara Kelley and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An overview of Navajo history from pre-Columbian time to the present, written for the Navajo community and highlighting Navajo oral history"--
Download or read book Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeological Investigations in the Snowflake Mesa Redonda Area East central Arizona written by Robert B. Neily and published by Arizona State Museum. This book was released on 1988 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navajoland written by Klara B. Kelley and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
Download or read book Kayenta Anasazi Archaeology and Navajo Ethnohistory on the Northwestern Shonto Plateau written by Alan R. Schroedl and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
