Author: Museum of New Mexico. Office of Archaeological StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Annual Report
Author: Museum of New Mexico. Office of Archaeological StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Santa Fe National Forest Plan
Author: From Clovis to Comanchero
Author: Jack L. HofmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Cultural Resources Overview
Author: Joseph A. TainterPublisher:
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Category : Cibola National Forest (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Potters and Communities of Practice
Author: Linda S. CordellPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816529922
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The peoples of the American Southwest during the 13th through the 17th centuries witnessed dramatic changes in settlement size, exchange relationships, ideology, social organization, and migrations that included those of the first European settlers. Concomitant with these world-shaking events, communities of potters began producing new kinds of wares—particularly polychrome and glaze-paint decorated pottery—that entailed new technologies and new materials. The contributors to this volume present results of their collaborative research into the production and distribution of these new wares, including cutting-edge chemical and petrographic analyses. They use the insights gained to reflect on the changing nature of communities of potters as they participated in the dynamic social conditions of their world.
The American Southwest and Mesoamerica
Author: Jonathon E. EricsonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306441783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This is the only available volume to summarize current knowledge of prehistoric regional exchange in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica. As such, anthropologists and archaeologists will find it a valuable source of important data for comparative analysis of regional systems relative to sociopolitical organization.
Cooke's Peak - Pasaron Por Aqui
Author: Donald Howard CouchmanPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Miera y Pacheco
Author: John L. KessellPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806150793
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785) engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits: engineer and militia captain on Indian campaigns, district officer, merchant, debt collector, metallurgist, luckless silver miner, presidial soldier, dam builder, and rancher. This long-overdue, richly illustrated biography recounts Miera’s complex life in cinematic detail, from his birth in Cantabria, Spain, to his sudden and unexplained appearance at Janos, Chihuahua, and his death in Santa Fe at age seventy-one. In Miera y Pacheco, John L. Kessell explores each aspect of this Renaissance man’s life in the colony. Beginning with his marriage to the young descendant of a once-prominent New Mexican family, we see Miera transformed by his varied experiences into the quintessential Hispanic New Mexican. As he traveled to every corner of the colony and beyond, Miera gathered not only geographical, social, and political data but also invaluable information about the Southwest’s indigenous peoples. At the same time, Miera the artist was carving and painting statues and panels of the saints for the altar screens of the colony. Miera’s most ambitious surviving map resulted from his five-month ordeal as cartographer on the Domínguez-Escalante expedition to the Great Basin in 1776. Two years later, with the arrival of famed Juan Bautista de Anza as governor of New Mexico, Miera became a trusted member of Anza’s inner circle, advising him on civil, military, and Indian affairs. Miera’s maps and his religious art, represented here, have long been considered essential to the cultural history of colonial New Mexico. Now Kessell’s biography tells the rest of the story. Anyone with an interest in southwestern history, colonial New Mexico, or New Spain will welcome this study of Miera y Pacheco’s eventful life and times.
Rivers for Life
Author: Sandra PostelPublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597267805
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The conventional approach to river protection has focused on water quality and maintaining some "minimum" flow that was thought necessary to ensure the viability of a river. In recent years, however, scientific research has underscored the idea that the ecological health of a river system depends not on a minimum amount of water at any one time but on the naturally variable quantity and timing of flows throughout the year. In Rivers for Life, leading water experts Sandra Postel and Brian Richter explain why restoring and preserving more natural river flows are key to sustaining freshwater biodiversity and healthy river systems, and describe innovative policies, scientific approaches, and management reforms for achieving those goals. Sandra Postel and Brian Richter: explain the value of healthy rivers to human and ecosystem health; describe the ecological processes that support river ecosystems and how they have been disrupted by dams, diversions, and other alterations; consider the scientific basis for determining how much water a river needs; examine new management paradigms focused on restoring flow patterns and sustaining ecological health; assess the policy options available for managing rivers and other freshwater systems; explore building blocks for better river governance. Sandra Postel and Brian Richter offer case studies of river management from the United States (the San Pedro, Green, and Missouri), Australia (the Brisbane), and South Africa (the Sabie), along with numerous examples of new and innovative policy approaches that are being implemented in those and other countries. Rivers for Life presents a global perspective on the challenges of managing water for people and nature, with a concise yet comprehensive overview of the relevant science, policy, and management issues. It presents exciting and inspirational information for anyone concerned with water policy, planning and management, river conservation, freshwater biodiversity, or related topics.
The National Parks
Author: Barry MackintoshPublisher:
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Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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