A Tentative Classification of the Prehistoric Cultures of Minnesota
Author: Lloyd Alden Wilford
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 19
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Author: Lloyd Alden Wilford
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 19
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Published: 1955
Total Pages: 14
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peter N. Peregrine
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2003-05-31
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780306462641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Encyclopedia of Prehistory, with regionally organized entries on each major archaeological tradition, is a comprehensive overview of human history from two million years ago to the historic period. Prepared under the auspices and with the support of the Human Relations Area Files, and an internationally distinguished advisory board, the Encyclopedia is organized regionally with entries on each major archaeological tradition, written by noted experts in the field and edited by Peter N. Peregrine and Melvin Ember. The volumes follow a standard format and employ comparable units of description and analysis, making them easy to use and compare. -Volume 1 focuses on Africa. -Volume 2 focuses on Arctic and Sub Arctic. -Volume 3 focuses on East Asia and Oceania. -Volume 4 focuses on Europe. -Volume 5 focuses on Middle America. -Volume 6 focuses on North America. -Volume 7 focuses on South America. -Volume 8 focuses on South & Southwest Asia. -Volume 9 is the index volume.
Author: Peter N. Peregrine
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 1461511917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents also defined by a somewhat different set of an attempt to provide basic information sociocultural characteristics than are eth on all archaeologically known cultures, nological cultures. Major traditions are covering the entire globe and the entire defined based on common subsistence prehistory of humankind. It is designed as practices, sociopolitical organization, and a tool to assist in doing comparative material industries, but language, ideology, research on the peoples of the past. Most and kinship ties play little or no part in of the entries are written by the world's their definition because they are virtually foremost experts on the particular areas unrecoverable from archaeological con and time periods. texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and The Encyclopedia is organized accord kinship ties are central to defining ethno ing to major traditions. A major tradition logical cultures. There are three types of entries in the is defined as a group of populations sharing Encyclopedia: the major tradition entry, similar subsistence practices, technology, and forms of sociopolitical organization, the regional subtradition entry, and the which are spatially contiguous over a rela site entry. Each contains different types of tively large area and which endure tempo information, and each is intended to be rally for a relatively long period. Minimal used in a different way.
Author: Dale Davidson
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 254
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Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Published: 1966-01-01
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1949098168
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. Lee Lyman
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0817312226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explains the deep influence of biological methods and theories on the practice of Americanist archaeology by exploring W.C. McKern's use of Linnaean taxonomy as the model for development of a pottery classification system.
Author: Kenneth C. A. Dawson
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 1772820253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed description of a Blackduck tradition site that also contained Laurel tradition and transitional materials. The major occupation is assigned to the Western Area Algonkian culture of northwestern Ontario.
Author: Guy Gibbon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013-09-12
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 075912342X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritically Reading the Theory and Methods of Archaeology stands out as the most thorough and practical guide to the essential critical reading and writing skills that all students, instructors, and practitioners should have.It provides priceless insight for the here and now of the Theory and Methods of Archaeology classes and for a lifetime of reading, learning, teaching, and writing. Chapters focus on rigorous reasoning skills, types of argument, the main research orientations in archaeology, the basic procedural framework that underlies all schools of archaeology, and issues in archaeology raised by skeptical postmodernists.