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Author: Peter Jordan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1107118247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSheds light on the motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome.
Author: Peter Jordan
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Published: 2019
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ISBN-13: 9781107543386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Giulia D’Ercole
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 3031717775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William R. Dickinson
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0813724066
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Oceanian ceramic cultures making earthenware pottery spread during the past 3500 years through a dozen major island groups spanning 6000 km of the tropical Pacific Ocean from western Micronesia to western Polynesia. Island potters mixed sand as temper into clay bodies during ceramic manufacture. The nature of island sands is governed by the geotectonics of hotspot chains, island arcs, subduction zones, backarc basins, and remnant arcs as well as by sedimentology. Because small islands with bedrock exposures of restricted character are virtual point sources of sand, many tempers are diagnostic of specific islands. Petrographic study of temper sands in thin section allows distinction between indigenous pottery and exotic pottery transported from elsewhere. Study of 2223 prehistoric Oceanian potsherds from 130 islands and island clusters indicates the nature of Oceanian temper types and documents 105 cases of interisland transport of ceramics over distances typically
Author: Johannes Müller
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 3031533143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthew W. Betts
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2021-05-02
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1487587961
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA notable contribution to North American archaeological literature, The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast is the first book to integrate and interpret archaeological data from the entire Atlantic Northeast, making unprecedented cultural connections across a broad region that encompasses the Canadian Atlantic provinces, the Quebec Lower North Shore, and Maine. Beginning with the earliest Indigenous occupation of the area, this book presents a cultural overview of the Atlantic Northeast, and weaves together the histories of the Indigenous peoples whose traditional lands make up this territory, including the Innu, Beothuk, Inuit, and numerous Wabanaki bands and tribes. Emphasizing historical connection and cultural continuity, The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast tracks the development of the earliest peoples in this area as they responded to climate and ecosystem change by transforming their glacier-edge way of life to one on the water’s edge, becoming one of the most successful and longstanding marine-oriented cultures in North America. Supported by more than a hundred illustrations and maps documenting the archaeological legacy, as well as discussions of unanswered questions intended to spur debate, this comprehensive text is ideal for students, researchers, professional archaeologists, and anyone interested in the history of this region.
Author: Brian Hayden
Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications
Published: 2022-06-15
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1734281871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a unique and engaging book on prehistoric stone tools. It advocates an experiential approach in which analysts try to understand stone tool designs from the users' perspectives, and employs a universal logic of designing tools to solve practical problems and evaluating various possible solutions. However, to do so it is also necessary to understand how stone can be mechanically modified to serve specific functions. The author enlists a rich array of ethnographic observations and considerable background as a flintknapper to show the basic ways in which stones can be flaked and modified and what these characteristics can reveal about prehistoric problem-solving strategies and design constraints. This is an invaluable primer for anyone contemplating the study of prehistoric stone tools."
Author: Junko Habu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-07-29
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780521776707
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Author: Richard W. Keatinge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988-03-10
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780521275552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeruvian Prehistory offers an authoritative survey of the cultural evolution of Peru from the appearance of the first inhabitants around 10,000 BC to the arrival of the Spanish in 1534. The book is divided chronologically into three main parts, which examine in turn the highland and lowland zones in the Preceramic and Initial periods; the development of complex society at Chavin, Tiwanaku and Fluari and in the Moche and Nazca cultures; and the culmination of this process, the Pan-Andean empire of the Incas, and the way this can be studied through a combination of archaeology and ethnohistoric research. A fourth, concluding section deals with the often neglected tropical forest region of Peru and its formative influence on the evolution of Andean culture. The first collective assessment of Peruvian archaeology for a generation, this volume traces the processes of political, social and economic change in Andean civilisation in a manner that will attract many with no specialist interest in Peru.
Author: Christine A. Hastorf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 1107153360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction : The Social Life of Food -- Part I. Laying the Groundwork -- Framing Food Investigation -- The Practices of a Meal in Society -- Part II. Current Food Studies in Archaeology -- The Archaeological Study of Food Activities -- Food Economics -- Food Politics : Power and Status -- Part III. Food and Identity : The Potentials of Food Archaeology -- Food in the Construction of Group Identity -- The Creation of Personal Identity : Food, Body and Personhood -- Food Creates Society
