The Prehistory of North Carolina

The Prehistory of North Carolina

Author: David Sutton Phelps

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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Surveys the archaeology of North Carolina's three major regions--the Coastal Plain, the Piedmont, and the Mountains. Discusses the history of archaeological research in the state and suggests future directions of study. Contributors include archaeologists Joffre L. Coe, David S. Phelps, Burton L. Purrington, and H. Trawick Ward.


An Archaeological Evolution

An Archaeological Evolution

Author: Stanley South

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-10-21

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0387234047

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This fascinating and revealing book charts the life of one of the greatest living archaeologists. Stanley South has been a leading figure not only in historical but also in anthropological archaeology. His personal perseverance in field of archaeology has also been an inspiration to new and upcoming archaeologists and anthropologists. This is his memoir, played out among some of the most important debates and movements in archaeology since the 1960s.


An Archaeology of the Cosmos

An Archaeology of the Cosmos

Author: Timothy R. Pauketat

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0415521289

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An Archaeology of the Cosmos seeks answers to two fundamental questions of humanity and human history. The first question concerns that which some use as a defining element of humanity: religious beliefs. Why do so many people believe in supreme beings and holy spirits? The second question concerns changes in those beliefs. What causes beliefs to change? Using archaeological evidence gathered from ancient America, especially case material from the Great Plains and the pre-Columbian American Indian city of Cahokia, Timothy Pauketat explores the logical consequences of these two fundamental questions. Religious beliefs are not more resilient than other aspects of culture and society, and people are not the only causes of historical change. An Archaeology of the Cosmos examines the intimate association of agency and religion by studying how relationships between people, places, and things were bundled together and positioned in ways that constituted the fields of human experience. This rethinking theories of agency and religion provides readers with challenging and thought provoking conclusions that will lead them to reassess the way they approach the past.


Archaeological Pathways to Historic Site Development

Archaeological Pathways to Historic Site Development

Author: Stanley A. South

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780306465901

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In this book I walk with the reader along the bothered me that some of my colleagues, in their archaeological pathways traveled by many reports of archaeological activity on documented researchers in the process of historic site historic sites, never mention finding evidence of previous American Indian occupation. Sites development. The sponsors, historians, archaeologists, and administrators who have selected by Europeans, usually on high ground bordering the deep water channel of navigatable traveled those pathways may find familiar much of what I say here. The pathways exploring the past streams, are those also once preferred by Native Americans for the access to environmental involve research in documents and the archaeological record, using the best methods of resources they afford. How could Native both, in an attempt to understand the material American material culture not be present on such culture remains left behind, not only by explorers sites? and colonists from Europe and Africa, but also by I once asked a well-known archaeological Native Americans who lived in the environment for colleague why it was that such evidence did not appear in his reports from such sites, and the reply millenia before those strangers appeared on the scene. In explaining the archaeological record of was, "Gh, I find all kinds of Indian things on the American Indians I lean on not only archaeological historic sites I dig, but that's not why I'm there.


Soils in Archaeological Research

Soils in Archaeological Research

Author: Vance T. Holliday

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2004-08-19

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0195149653

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Soils, invaluable indicators of the nature and history of the physical and human landscape, have strongly influenced the cultural record left to archaeologists. In this book, the author addresses each of these issues in terms of fundamentals as well as in field case histories from all over the world.


Humanities

Humanities

Author: National Endowment for the Humanities

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13:

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The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology

The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology

Author: Timothy R. Pauketat

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 693

ISBN-13: 0190241098

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The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology reviews the continent's first and last foragers, farmers, and great pre-Columbian civic and ceremonial centers, from Chaco Canyon to Moundville and beyond.


A New Deal for Southeastern Archaeology

A New Deal for Southeastern Archaeology

Author: Edwin A. Lyon

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0817307915

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Utilizing primary sources that include correspondence and unpublished reports, Lyon demonstrates the great importance of the New Deal projects in the history of southeastern and North American archaeology. New Deal archaeology transformed the practice of archaeology in the Southeast and created the basis for the discipline that exists today.