Intermountain Archaeology
Intermountain Archaeology

Author: David B. Madsen

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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The papers in this volume reflect a broad topical range: how transportation issues associated with the movement of people and good into and out of upland areas affects the way hunter-gatherers behave, issues of social identity and group boundaries, basic issues of time-space systematic in the central Rocky Mountains, and the basic topic of food choice and the kinds of resources used by prehistoric peoples in the Intermountain West.

Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America
Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America

Author: Guy E. Gibbon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-01-26

Total Pages: 1020

ISBN-13: 1136801790

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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.

Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau
Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau

Author: Steven R. Simms

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1 The Ancient World of the Basin-Plateau -- Native Culture before the Horse -- Technology -- Mobility and Settlement -- Subsistence -- Sidebar: Forager Cuisine -- Social and Political Organization -- Ideology -- From Historic Baseline to the Deep Past: A Spiral of Contexts -- 2 Ancient Climate and Habitats -- The Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau -- The Wasatch Front -- Just before History -- Stepping into a Deeper Past

The Archaeology of Food and Warfare
The Archaeology of Food and Warfare

Author: Amber M. VanDerwarker

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-08-03

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 3319185063

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The archaeologies of food and warfare have independently developed over the past several decades. This volume aims to provide concrete linkages between these research topics through the examination of case studies worldwide. Topics considered within the book include: the impacts of warfare on the daily food quest, warfare and nutritional health, ritual foodways and violence, the provisioning of warriors and armies, status-based changes in diet during times of war, logistical constraints on military campaigns, and violent competition over subsistence resources. The diversity of perspectives included in this volume may be a product of new ways of conceptualizing violence—not simply as an isolated component of a society, nor as an attribute of a particular societal type—but instead as a transformative process that is lived and irrevocably alters social, economic, and political organization and relationships. This book highlights this transformative process by presenting a cross-cultural perspective on the connection between war and food through the inclusion of case studies from several continents.