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“thomas vale”

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  • Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape

    Edited by Thomas Vale ...
    For nearly two centuries, the creation myth for the United States imagined European settlers arriving on the shores of a vast, uncharted wilderness. Over the last two decades, however, a contrary vision has emerged, one which sees the country's roots not in a state of "pristine" nature but rather in a "human-modified landscape" over which native peoples exerted vast control.Fire, Native Peoples, ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

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  • The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

    by Paulette F. C. Steeves ...
    2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers

    The Foraging Spectrum

    by Robert L. Kelly ...
    In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Thinking Like a Mountain

    An Ecological Perspective on Earth

    by R. Edward Grumbine ...
    Series series Island Press E-ssentials
    In Thinking Like a Mountain, we have excerpted a clear and inviting introduction to the science of conservation biology from Ed Grumbine's previous book, Ghost Bears. Grumbine offers a succinct and evocative description of why we should all care about biodiversity, protected lands, connectivity, and extinction rates, and the advantages to be gained by attempting to 'think like a mountain', as so ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Caribou and the North

    A Shared Future

    by Monte Hummel, Justina C. Ray ...
    "If the caribou die, then we die." These few words speak eloquently to the significanceof caribou for northern peoples. They were spoken not by a wise old chief, but by a 13-year-old Dene youth in 2007 during a hearing regarding uranium exploration on the caribou wintering grounds.Right now there is urgent, widespread concern about the future of the most centralof species: caribou. Caribou and the ... Read more

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  • California Prehistory

    Colonization, Culture, and Complexity

    by Ivano Aiello, Mark W. Allen, R Scott Anderson, Mark E. Basgall, Viviana Bellefemine, David G. Bieling, Brian F. Byrd, Robert Cartier, Jim Cassidy, Joseph L. Chartkoff, Jon M. Erlandson, Jason A. Eshleman, Richard T. Fitzgerald, David A. Fredrickson, LynnH Gamble, Jill K. Gardner, Donna Gillette, Amy J. Gilreath, Michael A. Glassow, Victor Golla, Andrew Gottsfield, Randy G. Groza, William R. Hildebrandt, Richard E. Hughes, Kathleen L. Hull, Mark G. Hylkema, Deborah A. Jones, Don Laylander, Alan Leventhal, Patricia M. Masters, Kelly R. McGuire, Randall Milliken, Michael J. Moratto, Tom Origer, Jennifer E. Perry, Judith F. Porcasi, L Mark Raab, Torben C. Rick, Michael F. Rondeau, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Glenn S. Russell, Jerry Schaefer, David Glenn Smith, Nathan E. Stevens, Eric Strother, Mark Q. Sutton, James A. Wanket, G James West, Gregory G. White, Randy Wiberg, Wallace Woolfenden ...
    Some forty scholars examine California's prehistory and archaeology, looking at marine and terrestrial palaeoenvironments, initial human colonization, linguistic prehistory, early forms of exchange, mitochondrial DNA studies, and rock art. This work is the most extensive study of California's prehistory undertaken in the past 20 years. An essential resource for any scholar of California prehistory ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The A to Z of Early North America

    by Cameron B. Wesson ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    Those unfamiliar with the prehistory of North America have a general perception of the cultures of the continent that includes Native Americans living in tipis, wearing feathered headdresses and buckskin clothing, and following migratory bison herds on the Great Plains. Although these practices were part of some Native American societies, they do not adequately represent the diversity of cultural ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Archaeology of the Southwest

    by Maxine E. McBrinn, Linda S Cordell ...
    Series series Routledge World Archaeology
    The long-awaited third edition of this well-known textbook continues to be the go-to text and reference for anyone interested in Southwest archaeology. It provides a comprehensive summary of the major themes and topics central to modern interpretation and practice. More concise, accessible, and student-friendly, the Third Edition offers students the latest in current research, debates, and topical ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Climate Ghosts

    Migratory Species in the Anthropocene

    by Nancy Langston ...
    Series series The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
    Climate Ghosts deals with the important issue of climate change and human impact on three species: woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon.Environmental historian Nancy Langston explores three “ghost species” in the Great Lakes watershed—woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon. Ghost species are those that have not gone completely extinct, although they may be extirpated from a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ethnobiology

    Edited by E. N. Anderson, Deborah Pearsall, Eugene Hunn, Nancy Turner ...
    The single comprehensive treatment of the field, from the leading members of the Society of EthnobiologyThe field of ethnobiology—the study of relationships between particular ethnic groups and their native plants and animals—has grown very rapidly in recent years, spawning numerous subfields. Ethnobiological research has produced a wide range of medicines, natural products, and new crops, as well ... Read more

    $92.00 USD

  • Prehistory of North America

    by Mark Sutton ...
    A Prehistory of North America covers the ever-evolving understanding of the prehistory of North America, from its initial colonization, through the development of complex societies, and up to contact with Europeans.This book is the most up-to-date treatment of the prehistory of North America. In addition, it is organized by culture area in order to serve as a companion volume to “An Introduction ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Prehistoric Culture Change on the Colorado Plateau

    Ten Thousand Years on Black Mesa

    Edited by Shirley Powell, Francis E. Smiley ...
    One of the largest archaeological projects ever undertaken in North America, Peabody Coal Company's Black Mesa Archaeological Project conducted investigations in northeastern Arizona from 1967 to 1983. This mammoth undertaking recognized and recovered the remains of ephemeral camps, early agricultural sites, Puebloan villages, and Navajo settlements stretching over nearly ten millennia of human ... Read more

    $26.69 USD