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Category : Alabama
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Journal of Alabama Archaeology
Prehistoric Indians of the Southeast
Author: John A. WalthallPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817305521
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This book deals with the prehistory of the region encompassed by the present state of Alabama and spans a period of some 11,000 years—from 9000 B.C. and the earliest documented appearance of human beings in the area to A.D. 1750, when the early European settlements were well established. Only within the last five decades have remains of these prehistoric peoples been scientifically investigated. This volume is the product of intensive archaeological investigations in Alabama by scores of amateur and professional researchers. It represents no end product but rather is an initial step in our ongoing study of Alabama's prehistoric past. The extent of current industrial development and highway construction within Alabama and the damming of more and more rivers and streams underscore the necessity that an unprecedented effort be made to preserve the traces of prehistoric human beings that are destroyed every day by our own progress.
The Final Report of the National Reservoir Inundation Study: Technical reports
Author: North American Projectile Points
Author: Wm Jack HranickyPublisher: Author House
ISBN: 1496910664
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
Jack Hranicky is a retired U.S. Government contractor, but he has been involved with archaeology as a full-time passion for over 40 years. His main interest is the Paleo-Indian period; however, he has worked in all facets of American archaeology. He has published over 250 papers and over 35 books in archaeology with his most recent being a two-volume, 800-page, 10,000-artifact book on the material culture of Virginia. In Virginia, he is considered an expert on prehistoric stone tools and rockart. The prehistoric Spout Run Observatory site was investigated by him which dated 10,470 YBP. He has served as president of the Archeological Society of Virginia (ASV) and Eastern States Archeological Federation (ESAF), and been past chairman of the Alexandria Archaeology Commission in Virginia. He is a charter member of the Registry of Professional Archaeologists (RPA). And, since he joined the Archeological Society of Virginia (ASV) in 1966, he is its senior member. And finally, his major publication is Bipoints Before Clovis.
Handbook of Alabama Archaeology: Part I Point Types
Author: David L. De JarnettePublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465543147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
North American Projectile Points
Author: Wm Jack Hranicky RPAPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1456750003
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
This book provides a single-source for projectile points in the literature of American archeology. Its purpose is to provide a quick lookup for point types; the user then utilizes the basic references that are provided for more research information, point comparisons, data, distributions, etc.
The Prehistory of the Paintsville Reservoir, Johnson and Morgan Counties, Kentucky
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Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
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Ocmulgee Archaeology, 1936-1986
Author: David J. HallyPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820334928
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
From 1933 to 1941, Macon was the site of the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken in Georgia and one of the most significant archaeological projects to be initiated by the federal government during the depression. The project was administered by the National Park Service and funded at times by such government programs as the Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, and Civil Works Administration. At its peak in 1955, more than eight hundred laborers were employed in more than a dozen separate excavations of prehistoric mounds and villages. The best-known excavations were conducted at the Macon Plateau site, the area President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed as the Ocmulgee National Monument in 1936. Although a wealth of material was recovered from the site in the 1930s, little provision was made for analyzing and reporting it. Consequently, much information is still unpublished. The sixteen essays in this volume were presented at a symposium to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Ocmulgee National Monument. The symposium provided archaeologists with an opportunity to update the work begun a half-century before and to bring it into the larger context of southeastern history and general advances in archaeological research and methodology. Among the topics discussed are platform mounds, settlement patterns, agronomic practices, earth lodges, human skeletal remains, Macon Plateau culture origins, relations of site inhabitants with other aboriginal societies and Europeans, and the challenges of administering excavations and park development.
The Effects of Freshwater Inundation of Archeological Sites Through Reservoir Construction
Author: Toni CarrellPublisher:
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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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North American Projectile Points - Revised
Author: Wm Jack Hranicky RpaPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1452026327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description