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Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households

by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos, Keith Ashley, Melissa R. Baltus, Alleen Betzenhauser, Jennifer Birch, Tamira K. Brennan, Meghan E. Buchanan, Jera R. Davis, Heidi A. de Gregory0, Paige A. Ford1, Adam King2, Duncan P. McKinnon3, Erin S. Nelson4, Benjamin A. Steere5, Amber R. Thorpe6, Jason Yaeger7, Christopher B. Rodning8, Edmond A. Boudreaux III9, Stefan Brannan III0 ...

Series series Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives
Explores the archaeology of Mississippian communities and households using new data and advances in method and theoryPublished in 1995, Mississippian Communities and Households, edited by J. Daniel Rogers and Bruce D. Smith, was a foundational text that advanced southeastern archaeology in significant ways and brought household-level archaeology to the forefront of the field. Reconsidering ... Read more

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Explores the archaeology of Mississippian communities and households using new data and advances in method and theoryPublished in 1995, Mississippian Communities and Households, edited by J. Daniel Rogers and Bruce D. Smith, was a foundational text that advanced southeastern archaeology in significant ways and brought household-level archaeology to the forefront of the field. Reconsidering
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A World Engraved

Archaeology of the Swift Creek Culture

by Rebecca Saunders, Alan Marsh, Buddy Calvin Jones, Daniel T. Penton, Betty A. Smith, Douglas Sun, Frankie Snow, Jennifer Freer-Harris, Judith A. Bense, Karl T. Steinen, Keith Ashley, Louis Daniel Tesar, David W. Chase, Keith Stephenson ...

This major summary of the current state of archaeological research on the Swift Creek culture is the first comprehensive collection ever published concerning the Swift Creek people.The Swift Creek people, centered in Georgia and surrounding states from A.D. 100 to 700, are best known from their pottery, which was decorated before firing with beautiful paddle-stamped designs--some of the most ... Read more

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This major summary of the current state of archaeological research on the Swift Creek culture is the first comprehensive collection ever published concerning the Swift Creek people.The Swift Creek people, centered in Georgia and surrounding states from A.D. 100 to 700, are best known from their pottery, which was decorated before firing with beautiful paddle-stamped designs--some of the most
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Changes in the Land

Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

by William Cronon, John Demos ...

The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an ... Read more

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The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an
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Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

Edited by William Cronon ...

A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature ... Read more

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A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature
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Skull Wars

Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity

by David Hurst Thomas ...

The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as desecrators of tribal rites and traditions; archeologists see their livelihoods and science threatened by the 1990 Federal ... Read more

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The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as desecrators of tribal rites and traditions; archeologists see their livelihoods and science threatened by the 1990 Federal
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Bone Rooms

From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums

by Samuel J. Redman ...

A Smithsonian Book of the YearA Nature Book of the Year“Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.”—SmithsonianIn 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington that was collecting human remains for research. In the “bone rooms” of the Smithsonian, a scientific ... Read more

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A Smithsonian Book of the YearA Nature Book of the Year“Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.”—SmithsonianIn 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington that was collecting human remains for research. In the “bone rooms” of the Smithsonian, a scientific
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Beyond Collapse

Archaeological Perspectives on Resilience, Revitalization, and Transformation in Complex Societies

by J. Heath Anderson, Christina Conlee, Thomas Emerson, Kristin Hedman, Gary Feinman, Julie Hoggarth, Scott Hutson, Gyles Iannone, T. R. Kidder, Michael Loughlin0, Katie Lantzas1, Maureen Meyers2, Christopher Pool3, Christopher Rodning4, Jakob Sedig5, Nicola Sharratt6, Rebecca Storey7, Glenn Storey8, Joseph Tainter9, Joseph Tainter0, Victor Thompson1, Victor Thompson2, Andrea Torvinen3, Andrea Torvinen4, Kari Zobler5, Kari Zobler6, Richard Sutter7, Richard Sutter8 ...

The Maya. The Romans. The great dynasties of ancient China. It is generally believed that these once mighty empires eventually crumbled and disappeared. A recent trend in archaeology, however, focusing on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful societies has found social resilience and transformation instead of collapse. In Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on ... Read more

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The Maya. The Romans. The great dynasties of ancient China. It is generally believed that these once mighty empires eventually crumbled and disappeared. A recent trend in archaeology, however, focusing on what happened during and after the decline of once powerful societies has found social resilience and transformation instead of collapse. In Beyond Collapse: Archaeological Perspectives on
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The Moundbuilders: Ancient Societies of Eastern North America (Second)

by George R. Milner ...

Brought up to date with the latest research, The Moundbuilders is the definitive visual guide to North America’s eastern region and the societies that forever changed its landscape.Hailed by Bruce D. Smith, curator of North American archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution, as “without question the best available book on the pre-Columbian . . . societies of eastern North America,” this wide ... Read more

$18.99 USD

Brought up to date with the latest research, The Moundbuilders is the definitive visual guide to North America’s eastern region and the societies that forever changed its landscape.Hailed by Bruce D. Smith, curator of North American archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution, as “without question the best available book on the pre-Columbian . . . societies of eastern North America,” this wide
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Studies in Culture Contact

Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

by Kathleen Deagan, Prudence M. Rice, Robert L. Schuyler, Ann F. Ramenofsky, Edward M. Schortman, Patricia A. Urban, Jonathan D. Hill, Theresa A. Singleton, John Edward Terrell, Gil J. Stein, Stuart Tyson Smith, Michael Dietler, Peter S. Wells, Susan Toby Evans, Christopher R. DeCorse, Douglas V. Armstrong, Rebecca Saunders, Mark J. Wagner, Joel W. Palka, Rani T. Alexander ...

People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture ... Read more

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People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick,seeks to define the role of culture
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Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions

by Timothy R. Pauketat ...

Series series Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology
In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary ... Read more

$42.99 USD

In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary
... Read more
Aztalan

Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town

by Robert A. Birmingham, Lynne Goldstein ...

Aztalan has remained a mystery since the early nineteenth century when it was discovered by settlers who came to the Crawfish River, fifty miles west of Milwaukee. Who were the early indigenous people who inhabited this place? When did they live here? Why did they disappear?Birmingham and Goldstein attempt to unlock some of the mysteries, providing insights and information about the group of ... Read more

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Aztalan has remained a mystery since the early nineteenth century when it was discovered by settlers who came to the Crawfish River, fifty miles west of Milwaukee. Who were the early indigenous people who inhabited this place? When did they live here? Why did they disappear?Birmingham and Goldstein attempt to unlock some of the mysteries, providing insights and information about the group of
... Read more
Agency in Archaeology

by Marcia-Anne Dobres, John Robb ...

Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognise that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognise that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual
... Read more

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