Author: California. Department of Transportation. Division of Environmental AnalysisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A Historical Context and Archaeological Research Design for Work Camp Properties in California
Author: California. Department of Transportation. Division of Environmental AnalysisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Work Camps
Author: A Historical Context and Archaeological Research Design for Agricultural Properties in California
Author: California. Department of Transportation. Division of Environmental AnalysisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A Historical Context and Archaeological Research Design for Townsite Properties in California
Author: A Historical Context and Archaeological Research Design for Mining Properties in California
Author: California. Department of Transportation. Division of Environmental AnalysisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Cultural Resources Overview for Northwestern California
Author: Jerome KingPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens
Author: Mark S. WarnerPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496200357
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The mythic American West, with its perilous frontiers, big skies, and vast resources, is frequently perceived as unchanging and timeless. The work of many western-based historical archaeologists over the past decade, however, has revealed narratives that often sharply challenge that timelessness. Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens reveals an archaeological past that is distinct to the region--but not in ways that popular imagination might suggest. Instead, this volume highlights a western past characterized by rapid and ever-changing interactions between diverse groups of people across a wide range of environmental and economic situations. The dynamic and unpredictable lives of western communities have prompted a constant challenging and reimagining of both individual identities and collective understandings of their position within a broader national experience. Indeed, the archaeological West is one clearly characterized by mobility rather than stasis. The archaeologies presented in this volume explore the impact of that pervasive human mobility on the West--a world of transience, impermanence, seasonal migration, and accelerated trade and technology at scales ranging from the local to the global. By documenting the challenges of both local community-building and global networking, they provide an archaeology of the West that is ultimately from the West.
The Archaeology of the Logging Industry
Author: John G. FranzenPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813057582
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The American lumber industry helped fuel westward expansion and industrial development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, building logging camps and sawmills—and abandoning them once the trees ran out. In this book, John Franzen surveys archaeological studies of logging sites across the nation, explaining how material evidence found at these locations illustrates key aspects of the American experience during this era. Franzen delves into the technologies used in cutting and processing logs, the environmental impacts of harvesting timber, the daily life of workers and their families, and the social organization of logging communities. He highlights important trends, such as increasing mechanization and standardization, and changes in working and living conditions, especially the food and housing provided by employers. Throughout these studies, which range from Michigan to California, the book provides access to information from unpublished studies not readily available to most researchers. The Archaeology of the Logging Industry also shows that when archaeologists turn their attention to the recent past, the discipline can be relevant to today’s ecological crises. By creating awareness of the environmental deterioration caused by industrial-scale logging during what some are calling the Anthropocene, archaeology supports the hope that with adequate time for recovery and better global-scale stewardship, the human use of forests might become sustainable. A volume in the series the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective, edited by Michael S. Nassaney
Report of Findings
Author: California. 1995 Preservation Task Force. Sub-Committee on ArchaeologyPublisher:
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Category : Archaeology and state
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Factories in the Field
Author: Carey McWilliamsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520925181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
This book was the first broad exposé of the social and environmental damage inflicted by the growth of corporate agriculture in California. Factories in the Field—together with the work of Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and John Steinbeck—dramatizes the misery of the dust bowl migrants hoping to find work in California agriculture. McWilliams starts with the scandals of the Spanish land grant purchases, and continues on to examine the experience of the various ethnic groups that have provided labor for California's agricultural industry—Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Filipinos, Armenians—the strikes, and the efforts to organize labor unions