The Prehistory of the Tehuacan Valley: Chronology and irrigation, edited by F. Johnson
Author: Tehuacan Archaeological-Botanical Project
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 0
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The Archaeology of La Calsada
Author: C. Roger Nance
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-07-22
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0292786182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn a remote mountainside 2,000 meters above sea level in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental, the rockshelter at La Calsada has yielded basic archaeological data for one of the least understood regions of prehistoric North America, the state of Nuevo León in northern Mexico. This comprehensive site report, with detailed information on artifacts and stratigraphy, provides baseline data for further explorations in the region and comparisons with other North American hunter-gatherer groups. Radiocarbon dating traces the earliest component at the site to 8600-7500 B.C., giving La Calsada arguably the earliest well-dated lithic complex in Mexico. Nance describes some 1,140 recovered stone tools, with comparisons to the archaeology of southern and southwestern Texas, as well as reported sites in Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León, Mexico. From the lithic and stratigraphic analysis, Nance deduces occupational patterns at the site, beginning with Paleo-Indian cultures that lived in the area until about 7500 B.C. Through changes in tool technology, he follows the rise of the Abasolo tradition around 3000 B.C. and the appearance of a new culture with a radically different lithic industry around 1000 A.D.
Irrigation and Society in the Peruvian Desert
Author: Katharina Jeanne Schreiber
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780739106419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIrrigation and Society: The Puquios of Nasca looks at the legendary puquios of Nasca, the underground aqueduct system built by Incans which is arguably responsible for this desert region's strange abundance of water. Authors Katharina Schreiber and Josuz Lancho explore the puqios, their probable means of construction and their function in ancient society to address the larger issue of the role of large scale irrigation in the emergence of soci-political complexity.
The Early Mesoamerican Village
Author: Kent V Flannery
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1598744690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a seminal tract on scientific method in archaeology and a series of studies on formative Mesoamerica that has influenced generations of archaeologist. A new Foreword by Jeremy Sabloff is featured in this edition.
Early Formative Pottery of the Valley of Oaxaca
Author: Kent V. Flannery
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 0915703343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing more than 300 illustrations, the authors present an encyclopedic analysis of the many types of pottery found in the Oaxaca Valley in the Early Formative period. From details of sherd profiles and tempers to discussions of the growth of various villages, this volume is an exhaustively thorough treatment of the topic and represents decades of archaeological fieldwork in the region.
Agricultural Strategies
Author: Joyce Marcus
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Published: 2006-12-31
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 193877034X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together a diverse set of new studies--archaeological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic--that focus on agricultural intensification and hydraulic systems around the world. Fifteen chapters--written by many of the world's leading experts--combine extensive regional overviews of agricultural histories with in-depth case studies. In this volume are chapters on agriculture in the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, Oceania, Mesoamerica, and South America. A wide range of theoretical perspectives and approaches are used to provide a framework for agricultural land-use and water management in a variety of cultural and historical contexts. This book covers the co-evolutionary relationships among sociopolitical structure, agriculture, land-use, and water control. Agricultural Strategies is an invaluable resource for those engaged in ongoing debates about the role of intensification and agriculture in the past and present.
The Ancient Americas
Author: Hanns J. Prem
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOutlines the complex cultural history of Mesoamerica and the Andean continuum, combining an overview of pre-Columbian historical events with consideration of important research problems. Contains sections on specific periods and peoples, and on basic questions, approaches to research, and unsolved p
A History of Archaeological Thought
Author: Bruce G. Trigger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780521338189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBruce Trigger's new book is the first ever to examine the history of archaeology from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. At once stimulating and even-handed, it places the development of archaeological thought and theory throughout within a broad social and intellectual framework. The successive but interacting trends apparent in archaeological thought are defined and the author seeks to determine the extent to which these trends were a reflection of the personal and collective interests of archaeologists as these relate - in the West at least - to the fluctuating fortunes of the middle classes. While subjective influences have been powerful, Professor Trigger argues that the gradual accumulation of archaeological data has exercised a growing constraint on interpretation. In turn, this has increased the objectivity of archaeological research and enhanced its value for understanding the entire span of human history and the human condition in general.
The Emergence of Pottery
Author: William K. Barnett
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKClimate Change and Cultural Dynamics
Author: David G. Anderson
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2011-07-28
Total Pages: 603
ISBN-13: 0080554555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures. Across this span, climatic conditions changed rapidly, with cooling in the high to mid-latitudes and drying in the tropics. In many parts of the world, human groups became more complex, with early horticultural systems replaced by intensive agriculture and small-scale societies being replaced by larger, more hierarchial organizations. Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics explores the cause and effect relationship between climatic change and cultural transformations across the mid-Holocene (c. 4000 B.C.). - Explores the role of climatic change on the development of society around the world - Chapters detail diverse geographical regions - Co-written by noted archaeologists and paleoclimatologists for non-specialists
