A Clovis Point Recording Model
A Clovis Point Recording Model

Author: Wm Hranicky

Publisher:

Published: 2019-03-03

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9781798644423

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This publication provides the basics for recording Clovis and other Paleoindian points in North America. It presents techniques, terminology, and nomenclatures that are used in analyses, procedures for recording, and methods for the entire recording process. The text starts with the basics of Clovis-point origins, identification, lithic analyses, curation practices, and other aspects of recording paleopoints.This publication is based on the author's experiences with the McCary Fluted Point Survey of Virginia. This Survey contains 1050 recorded Paleoindian points and presented the author with numerous problems and situations in obtaining and analyzing points for inclusion in the Survey's database. However, the advantages to archaeology far outweigh the problems. The Survey's database and point illustrations have contributed to countless research projects, dissertations, and general public displays and presentations. As a companion book, the entire McCary Fluted Point book is also available from the same publisher. Topics: Clovis records, Clovis point analyzing and classification, defining Clovis, chronology, distributions, Clovis culture, measurements, styles and variations, fluting types, stone materials, creating databases, point labeling, recording apparatus, pre-Clovis examples, Clovis climates, flaking attributes, Clovis comet, Cactus Hill and before Clovis, South American influences, true Clovis, mammoth extinctions, Big Games tradition, position in prehistory, fluted point survey methods, point verification methods, paleo-environments, research methods and equipment, collectability, curation principles, and Clovis populations. Related book: Clovis Points in Virginia.

Recording Clovis Points
Recording Clovis Points

Author: Wm Jack Hranicky Rpa

Publisher:

Published: 2015-03-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781496972880

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This book contains numerous methods and techniques for recording America's oldest projectile point. The Clovis point is the best known prehistoric point in American archaeology. This publication contains sections on Clovis distributions, identifying Clovis points, Clovis position in prehistory, recording Clovis, lithic materials, over one thousand Clovis point examples, and an extensive set of references. One major topic is identifying the "true" Clovis point. And this publication offers ways and means to record and study Paleo points, such as: Clovis discovery history, typing points, description, distribution, using nomenclature, attributes, traits, using standards, concepts, modeling Clovis data, recording policy, ethics, analytical methods, recording procedures, practices, and processes. The book is four hundred plus pages, black and white, eight and a half by eleven inch format, and has a soft cover. The author has over forty years in American prehistoric studies and is a charter member of the Registry of Professional Archaeologists.

Prehistoric Projectile Points Found Along the Atlantic Coastal Plain
Prehistoric Projectile Points Found Along the Atlantic Coastal Plain

Author: Wm Jack Hranicky

Publisher: Universal-Publishers

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1612330223

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This publication was written to provide a source for archaeological projectile point typology for a region of the U.S. that over the years has been traditionally divided into: Northeast culture area Middle Atlantic culture area Southeastern culture area These divisions are based primarily on lithic technology and settlement patterns. While this focus tends to serve archaeological investigations, most of the prehistoric Indian habitation/occupation requires greater definition and appraisal from other sources within the archaeological community. Even among artifact collectors, there is a tendency to parcel these areas into the classic culture area concepts. This publication makes no attempts to refocus archaeology, but to show the vast overlaps of numerous point technologies. This is especially true over time; so that, for lithic point technology in general, there is a Panindian focus that can be applied to almost every tool type along the Atlantic Coast. This publication provides most of the published types from along the Atlantic seaboard. Each type has a basic description and the illustration is an ideal point for that type. A set of point references is provided; these make excellent (and needed) sources for the study of projectile point studies.

Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of California and the Great Basin
Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of California and the Great Basin

Author: Noel D. Justice

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2002-05-23

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 9780253108838

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Noel Justice adds another regional guide to his series of important reference works that survey, describe, and categorize the projectile point and cutting tools used in prehistory by Native American peoples. This volume addresses the region of California and the Great Basin. Written for archaeologists and amateur collectors alike, the book describes over 50 types of stone arrowhead and spear points according to period, culture, and region. With the knowledge of someone trained to fashion projectile points with techniques used by the Indians, Justice describes how the points were made, used, and re-sharpened. His detailed drawings illustrate the way the Indians shaped their tools, what styles were peculiar to which regions, and how the various types can best be identified. There are hundreds of drawings, organized by type cluster and other identifying characteristics. The book also includes distribution maps and color plates that will further aid the researcher or collector in identifying specific periods, cultures, and projectile types.

Exploring Cause and Explanation
Exploring Cause and Explanation

Author: Cynthia L. Herhahn

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1607324733

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This 13th biennial volume of the Southwest Symposium highlights three distinct archaeological themes—historical ecology, demography, and movement—tied together through the consideration of the knowledge tools of cause and explanation. These tools focus discussion on how and why questions, facilitate assessing past and current knowledge of the Pueblo Southwest, and provide unexpected bridges across the three themes. For instance, people are ultimately the source of the movement of artifacts, but that statement is inadequate for explaining how artifact movement occurred or even why, at a regional scale, different kinds of movement are implicated at different times. Answering such questions can easily incorporate questions about changes in climate or in population density or size. Each thematic section is introduced by an established author who sets the framework for the chapters that follow. Some contributors adopt regional perspectives in which both classical regions (the central San Juan or lower Chama basins) and peripheral zones (the Alamosa basin or the upper San Juan) are represented. Chapters are also broad temporally, ranging from the Younger Dryas Climatic interval (the Clovis-Folsom transition) to the Protohistoric Pueblo world and the eighteenth-century ethnogenesis of a unique Hispanic identity in northern New Mexico. Others consider methodological issues, including the burden of chronic health afflictions at the level of the community and advances in estimating absolute population size. Whether emphasizing time, space, or methodology, the authors address the processes, steps, and interactions that affect current understanding of change or stability of cultural traditions. Exploring Cause and Explanation considers themes of perennial interest but demonstrates that archaeological knowledge in the Southwest continues to expand in directions that could not have been predicted fifty years ago. Contributors: Kirk C. Anderson, Jesse A. M. Ballenger, Jeffery Clark, J. Andrew Darling, B. Sunday Eiselt, Mark D. Elson, Mostafa Fayek, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Severin Fowles, Cynthia Herhahn, Vance T. Holliday, Sharon Hull, Deborah L. Huntley, Emily Lena Jones, Kathryn Kamp, Jeremy Kulisheck, Karl W. Laumbach, Toni S. Laumbach, Stephen H. Lekson, Virginia T. McLemore, Frances Joan Mathien, Michael H. Ort, Scott G. Ortman, Mary Ownby, Mary M. Prasciunas, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Erik Simpson, Ann L. W. Stodder, Ronald H. Towner

Material Culture from Prehistoric Virginia
Material Culture from Prehistoric Virginia

Author: William Hranicky

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2009-04

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 143896661X

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Material Culture from Prehistoric Virginia: Volume 1 is one volume of a two-volume set. This two-volume set is available in black and white and in color. Volume 1 contains artifact listings from A through L. Volume 2 contains the remainder of the alphabetical listings. These publications contain over 10,000 prehistoric artifacts mainly from Virginia, but the publication covers the eastern U. S. The set starts with Pre-Clovis and goes through Woodland times with some Indian ethnography and rockart. Each volume is indexed, contains references, has charts and graphs, drawings, photographs, artifact dates, and artifact descriptions. These volumes contain artifacts that have never appeared in the archaeological literature. From beginners to experienced archaeologists, they offer a complete library for the American Indian culture and experience. If the prehistoric Indian made it, an example is probably shown.

The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age
The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age

Author: D. Shane Miller

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2022-08-30

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 0817321284

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"In 1996, the University of Alabama Press published a prodigious benchmark volume, The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast, edited by David G. Anderson and Kenneth E. Sassaman. It was the first to provide a state-by-state record of the Paleolithic and early Archaic eras (to approximately 8,000 years ago) in this region as well as models to interpret data excavated from those eras. It summarized what was known of the peoples who lived in the Southeast when ice sheets covered the northern part of the continent and mammals such as elephants, saber-toothed tigers, and ground sloths roamed the landscape. In the United States, the Southeast has some of most robust data on these eras. The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age is the updated, definitive synthesis of current archaeological research gleaned from an array of experts in the region. The volume is organized in three parts: state records, the regional perspective, and perspective and future directions. State-by-state chapter overviews of the eras are followed by chapters with regional coverage on lithics (point types), submerged archaeology, gatherers, megafauna, chipped-stone technology, and spatial demography. Chapters on ethical concerns regarding the use of data from avocational collections, insight from outside the Southeast, and considerations for future research round out the volume. The contributors address five questions: When did people first arrive? How did they get there? Who were they? How did they adapt to local resources and environmental change? Then what?"--

GMAT Official Guide 2022
GMAT Official Guide 2022

Author: GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council)

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-06-16

Total Pages: 1095

ISBN-13: 1119793769

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