Timothy R. Pauketat (Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois), Kenneth E. Sassaman (University of Florida)

The Archaeology of Ancient North America

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Produktbeschreibung

This text introduces the archaeology of Native North Americans to a new generation of students and laypeople who demand more than stereotypes and sterile facts. Not just an evolutionary outline, this book presents a rich cultural history and a series of interrelated narratives about a continent's people over 15,000 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 278mm x 215mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 2030g
• ISBN-13: 9780521746274
• ISBN-10: 0521746272
• Artikelnr.: 57792099

Autorenporträt

Timothy R. Pauketat is an archaeologist and professor of anthropology and medieval studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books, with research interests that span the Americas.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Envisioning North America
2. A social history of North American archaeologists and Native Americans
3. Contact, colonialism, and convergence
4. Ancient immigrants
5. Sea change, see change
6. Gender, kinship, and the commune: the Great Basin and greater Western Archaic
7. Identity, ethnicity, and inequality: Holocene hunter-gatherers east of the Mississippi
8. Animism, shamanism, and technology: life in the Arctic
9. Building mounds, communities, histories
10. The momentous late Woodland-Mississippian millennium
11. Two worlds on the Great Plains
12. The final centuries of the Northeast
13. Divergence in the Far West
14. Order and chaos in the Southwest: the Hohokam and Puebloan worlds
15. Pots, peripheries, and Paquimé: the Southwest inside out
16. 1984 BCE.