Seeking Our Past
Oxford University Press Inc
978-0-19-517384-0 (ISBN)
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An exceptional resource, Seeking Our Past incorporates numerous pedagogical aids including: * Three types of text boxes: "Faces in Archaeology" offer profiles of working archaeologists; "Issues and Debates" address ethical concerns and scholarly debates; and "Clues to the Past" examine specific artifacts or features in detail * Maps of regions and cultures discussed in the text * Chapter summaries featuring bulleted lists of major points * Suggested reading lists at the end of each chapter and discussion questions after each case study * An extensive glossary * An Instructor's Manual, available to adopters * Student CD including additional sections; more case studies, "Issues and Debates" boxes, and "Faces in Archaeology" profiles; full-color illustrations; a complete list of references; a study guide (with questions and quizzes); and an "Exploring Further" section with links to related websites and recommendations of sites and museums to visit
EACH CHAPTER INCLUDES A CHAPTER SUMMARY, SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING, AND OTHER RESOURCES; STUDENT CD CONTENTS; PREFACE; CONTRIBUTORS; ILLUSTRATION CREDITS; PART 1: INTRODUCING NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY; CHAPTER 1: THE NATURE AND PRACTICE OF NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY; The Scope of This Book; What Is North American Archaeology?; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 1.1. Who Were the Mound Builders?; The North American Archaeologist; FACES IN ARCHAEOLOGY: PROFILE 1.1. W. James Judge, Professor and Director of the Chaco Project; FACES IN ARCHAEOLOGY: PROFILE 1.2. Lynne Sebastian, Archaeologist and Historic Preservationist; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 1.2. Politics and Scholarship in the Investigation of New York City's African Burial Ground; An Overview of the Archaeological Process; Case Study: The Pueblo Grande Project: An Example of Multidisciplinary Research in a Compliance Setting; CHAPTER 2: CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN NORTH AMERICA'S PAST; North American Culture Areas; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 2.1. What Are You Called? Names and Politics; North American Environments; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 2.2. Is Environmental Reconstruction an Ancillary Study?; The Climate of North America; The Systematics of North American Culture History; FACES IN ARCHAEOLOGY: PROFILE 2.1. Julie Stein, Archaeologist and Geoarchaeologist; FACES IN ARCHAEOLOGY: PROFILE 2.2. Robert Kelly, Archaeologist and Professor; Themes in the Study of North America's Past; A Final Word About Dates and Dating; Case Study: It Takes a Team: Interdisciplinary Research at the Koster Site; PART 2: THE NORTH AMERICAN PAST; CHAPTER 3: PEOPLING OF THE AMERICAS; When Were the Americas Settled?; The Clovis-First Scenario; CLUES TO THE PAST: EXHIBIT 3.1. Fluted Points: The Original American Invention?; Does the Clovis-First Scenario Account for All the Evidence?; Key Puzzles in the Data on Early Settlement; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 3.1. Why Is the Kennewick Case So Significant?; Paleoindian Adaptations; Case Study: Sea Change: The Paleocoastal Occupations of Daisy Cave; CHAPTER 4: FORAGERS OF THE NORTH; Definition of the Areas; The Environment; Early Cultures; CLUES TO THE PAST: EXHIBIT 4.1. Microblades; Archaic; Arctic Small Tool Tradition; Later Cultures of the Arctic: Dorset, Norton, and Thule; Later Cultures of the Subarctic; Historic Period; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 4.1. How Far Did the Vikings Get?; Case Study: From Sites to Social Evolution: The Study of Emergent Complexity in the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska; CHAPTER 5: PATHS TO COMPLEXITY ON THE NORTHWEST COAST; Definition of the Area; The Environment; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOXX 5.1. How Many Old Scarred Trees Do We Need?; Early Cultures; Archaic; Pacific Period; CLUES TO THE PAST: EXHIBIT 5.1. Basketry and Cordage; Modern Period; Case Study: Archaeological/Anthropological-Native American Coordination: An Example of Sharing the Research on the Northwest Coast of North America; CHAPTER 6: RIVERS, ROOTS, AND RABBITS: THE PLATEAU; Definition of the Area; The Environment; Early Cultures; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 6.1. Volcanoes and Human Settlement; Middle Period; CLUES TO THE PAST: EXHIBIT 6.1 Pithouses; Late Period; Modern Period; Case Study: The Miller Site: Four Seasons of Backwards Archaeology on Strawberry Island; CHAPTER 7: DIVERSITY AND COMPLEXITY IN CALIFORNIA; Definition of the Area; The Environment; Early Cultures; Foragers: The Archaic Pattern; Complexity: The Pacific Period; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 7.1. Chumash Complexity; Pacific Period Lifeways; CLUES TO THE PAST: EXHIBIT 7.1. Bedrock Milling Features; Historic Period; Case Study: Cultures in Contact at Colony Ross; CHAPTER 8: MOBILITY, FLEXIBILITY, AND PERSISTENCE IN THE GREAT BASIN; Definition of the Area; The Environment; Early Cultures: The Pre-Archaic; Archaic; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 8.1. Projectile Points and Time; CLUES TO THE PAST: EXHIBIT 8.1. Rabbit Nets; The Fremont; Numic Peoples and Their Spread; Protohistoric and Historic Periods; Case Study: Deep-Site Excavation at Gatecliff Shelter, Nevada; CHAPTER 9: FORAGERS AND VILLAGERS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN MOUNTAINS, MESAS, AND DESERTS; Definition of the Area; The Environments of the Southwest; Hunters and Foragers; Farmers and Villagers; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 9.1. Interpreting the Chaco Phenomenon; CLUES TO THE PAST: EXHIBIT 9.1. Fantasies on Clay: Mimbres Pottery; Reorganization, Aggregation, and Conflict in Late Prehistory; New Arrivals; Historic Period; Case Study: Casas Grandes at the Edge of the Southwestern and Mesoamerican Worlds; CHAPTER 10: BISON HUNTERS AND HORTICULTURISTS OF THE GREAT PLAINS; Definition of the Area; The Plains Environment; Early Hunters of the Plains; Plains Archaic; CLUES TO THE PAST: EXHIBIT 10.1. Hide Scrapers; The Woodland Period on the Great Plains; Plains Village Traditions; Late Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northern Plains; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 1O.1. Historic Ethnicities and the Archaeological Record; Protohistoric and Historic Developments; Case Study: Investigations at Double Ditch Village, a Traditional Mandan Earthlodge Settlement; CHAPTER 11: TRIBES AND CHIEFDOMS IN THE SOUTHEAST; Definition of the Area; The Environments of the Southeast; Hunter-Gatherers of the Distant Past; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 11.1. Ridges, Aisles, and the Map of Poverty Point; Woodland Peoples Across the Southeast; Mississippian and Other Societies of the Last Thousand Years; CLUES TO THE PAST: EXHIBIT 11.1. Design Motifs and Artifacts of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex; Protohistoric and Historic Times; Case Study: Mouse Creek Phase Households and Communities: Mississippian Period Towns in Southeastern Tennessee; CHAPTER 12: FORAGERS AND FARMERS OF THE MIDWEST AND UPPER GREAT LAKES; Definition of the Area; The Environments of the Midwest and Upper Great Lakes; Hunters and Foragers of the Distant Past; Woodland Farmers and Mound Builders; CLUES TO THE PAST: EXHIBIT 12.1. Stone Platform Pipes; The Mississippians and Other Late Prehistoric Peoples; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 12.1. How Big and Powerful Was Cahokia After All?; The Protohistoric and Historic Periods; Case Study: The Hopeton Earthworks Project: Using New Technologies to Answer Old Questions; CHAPTER 13: FISHING, FORAGING, AND FARMING IN THE NORTHEAST AND MID-ATLANTIC; Definition of the Area; The Environments of the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic; Hunters and Foragers of the Distant Past; Farming, Fishing, and Sedentism in the Early and Middle Woodland; Late Woodland and Late Prehistoric Peoples; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 13.1. Iroquoian Origins; The Protohistoric and Historic Periods; CLUES TO THE PAST: EXHIBIT 13.1. Iron Furnaces; Case Study: A New History of Maize-Bean-Squash Agriculture in the Northeast; PART 3: THE FUTURE OF NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY; CHAPTER 14: NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; A Perspective on North America's Past; Reconsidering the North American Archaeological Story; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 14.1. How Can We Stop Looting of Archaeological Sites?; The Changing Discipline; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 14.2. Displaying the Past at Dickson Mounds; Concluding Thoughts; ISSUES AND DEBATES: BOX 14.3. Can Academia Train Archaeologists for the Twenty-first Century?; GLOSSARY; INDEX; STUDENT CD CONTENTS; SECTION A: A BRIEF HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY; SECTION B: ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK; SECTION C: ARCHAEOLOGICAL LABORATORY ANALYSIS; SECTION D: BONUS CASE STUDIES; D.1. Interpreting the Ripley Site: A Century of Investigations; D.2. Weaponry of Clovis Hunters at Blackwater Draw; D.3. Eel Point and the Early Settlement of Coastal California: A Case Study in Contemporary Archaeological Research; D.4. The Dolores Archaeological Program: Documenting the Pithouse-to-Pueblo Transition; D.5. The Dust Cave Archaeological Project: Investigating Paleoindian and Archaic Lifeways in Southeastern North America; D.6. Ethnicity and Class in Colonial Foodways; SECTION E: BONUS FACES IN ARCHAEOLOGY; E.1. Arthur Parker, Archaeologist and Museologist; E.2. Linda Mayro, Pima County Cultural Resources Manager; SECTION F: BONUS ISSUES AND DEBATES; F.1. What Do Professors and CRM Archaeologists Think of Each Other?; F.2. The Curation Crisis; F.3. A Local Reaction to NAGPRA: The Kumeyaay Cultural and Repatriation Committee; F.4. Was There Cannibalism in the Prehistoric Southwest?; SECTION G: REFERECES; SECTION H: EXPLORING FURTHER; H.1. Recommended Websites; H.2. Sites, Parks, and Museums to Visit; SECTION I: STUDENT STUDY GUIDE; SECTION J: GLOSSARY
| Zusatzinfo | 343 maps, halftones & line illustrations |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-517384-8 / 0195173848 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-517384-0 / 9780195173840 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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