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Author: George S. Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Animal remains (Archaeology) Languages : en Pages : 550
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Provides a systematic regional approach for identifying and analyzing mammal bones from archaeological sites in Alaska. Contains field and laboratory procedures and reference material relevant to Alaska, including anatomical drawings, biographical information on Alaskan mammals, maps of animal distributions, animal weights, and methods of determining age. Includes topical bibliographies.
Author: George S. Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Animal remains (Archaeology) Languages : en Pages : 550
Book Description
Provides a systematic regional approach for identifying and analyzing mammal bones from archaeological sites in Alaska. Contains field and laboratory procedures and reference material relevant to Alaska, including anatomical drawings, biographical information on Alaskan mammals, maps of animal distributions, animal weights, and methods of determining age. Includes topical bibliographies.
Author: Charles E. Hilton Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139992104 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 333
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On the edge of the Arctic Ocean, above the Arctic Circle, the prehistoric settlements at Point Hope, Alaska, represent a truly remarkable accomplishment in human biological and cultural adaptations. Presenting a set of anthropological analyses on the human skeletal remains and cultural material from the Ipiutak and Tigara archaeological sites, The Foragers of Point Hope sheds new light on the excavations from 1939–41, which provided one of the largest sets of combined biological and cultural materials of northern latitude peoples in the world. A range of material items indicated successful human foraging strategies in this harsh Arctic environment. They also yielded enigmatic artifacts indicative of complex human cultural life filled with dense ritual and artistic expression. These remnants of past human activity contribute to a crucial understanding of past foraging lifeways and offer important insights into the human condition at the extreme edges of the globe.
Author: W. Roger Powers Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1623495393 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 344
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With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively demonstrate a human presence that could be dated to the same time as the Bering Land Bridge. As Powers and his team studied the site, their work verified initial expectations. Unfortunately, the research was never fully published. Dry Creek: The Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp is ready to take its rightful place in the ongoing research into the peopling of the Americas. Containing the original research, this book also updates and reconsiders Dry Creek in light of more recent discoveries and analysis.
Author: Adam Lawrence Harris Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 152
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The South Aniakchak Bay Village, an archaeological site located on the Alaska Peninsula's Pacific Coast, dates to over 1700 years BP. Little is known about the region's prehistory or the site's inhabitants, and the site appears to have been abandoned around 1100 years ago. An analysis of the mammal bones from the site reveals a strong maritime adaptation, focusing primarily on marine mammals. Harbor seal and sea otter make up the bulk of the assemblage, both of which are non-migratory and would be available year-round. The presence of large quantities of infant and juvenile seal suggests a hunting strategy targeting young seals over adults. Sea otter appear to have been utilized as a food source, and there is tentative indications that overexploitation may have contributed to the site's abandonment. Caribou and red fox are also present in small numbers, and there is some indication that they were important for fur/hides.
Author: Todd J. Braje Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520267265 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 328
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“The bones recovered from the middens of the northeastern Pacific shorelines have important stories to tell biologists, marine mammalogists, and those concerned with marine conservation. This volume unearths a wealth of information about the historical ecology of seals, sea lions, and sea otters in the North Pacific that spans thousands of years. It provides fascinating insights into how the world once looked, and how it may one day look again as seals, sea lions, and sea otters reclaim and recolonize their former haunts.”—Andrew Trites, Director, Marine Mammal Research Unit, University of British Columbia “Braje and Rick have assembled a compelling set of case studies on the long-term and complex interactions between people, marine mammals, and environments in the Northeast Pacific. The promise of zooarchaeology as historical science is on full display, as researchers use geochemistry, aDNA, morphometrics, and traditional analytic methods to address questions of utmost importance to the long-term health of coastal ecosystems. If this book doesn't convince conservation biology about the need to take the long view of animal histories and ecosystems into account in developing conservation management plans, I'm not sure what will.”—Virginia L. Butler, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University
Author: April M. Beisaw Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 162349026X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 194
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Offering a field-tested analytic method for identifying faunal remains, along with helpful references, images, and examples of the most commonly encountered North American species, Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual provides an important new reference for students, avocational archaeologists, and even naturalists and wildlife enthusiasts. Using the basic principles outlined here, the bones of any vertebrate animal, including humans, can be identified and their relevance to common research questions can be better understood. Because the interpretation of archaeological sites depends heavily on the analysis of surrounding materials—soils, artifacts, and floral and faunal remains—it is important that non-human remains be correctly distinguished from human bones, that distinctions between domesticated and wild or feral animals be made correctly, and that evidence of the reasons for faunal remains in the site be recognized. But the ability to identify and analyze animal bones is a skill that is not easy to learn from a traditional textbook. In Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones, veteran archaeologist and educator April Beisaw guides readers through the stages of identification and analysis with sample images and data, also illustrating how specialists make analytical decisions that allow for the identification of the smallest fragments of bone. Extensive additional illustrative material, from the author’s own collected assemblages and from those in the Archaeological Analytical Research Facility at Binghamton University in New York, are also available in the book’s online supplement. There, readers can view and interact with images to further understanding of the principles explained in the text.
Author: Ben Fitzhugh Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1461501377 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 154
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This book makes a contribution to the developing field of complex hunter-gatherer studies with an archaeological analysis of the development of one such group. It examines the evolution of complex hunter-gatherers on the North Pacific coast of Alaska. It is one of the first books available to examine in depth the social evolution of a specific complex hunter-gatherer tradition on the North Pacific Rim and will be of interest to professional archaeologists, anthropologists, and students of archaeology and anthropology.
Author: International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 192
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Humans are known to exploit plant and animal resources for a variety of purposes. Subsistence is the most obvious of these, but there are also social and technological reasons behind such activities, not to mention ideological and spiritual motives for exploitation. In order to maximise exploitation of resources, human often exploit ecotones, where several ecological zones exist in close proximity. The seashore is such an ecotone, and sea mammals are just one of many groups of resources who are available here. This volume looks to address some of the vast array of coastal adaptations that have occurred during the human past and the role that sea mammals have played in them.
Author: Brian M. Fagan Publisher: Department of Interior National Park Service Lake Clark National Park & Preserve ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
Author: George S. Smith
Author: George S. Smith
Author: Charles E. Hilton
Author: W. Roger Powers
Author: John Bockstoce
Author: Adam Lawrence Harris
Author: Todd J. Braje
Author: April M. Beisaw
Author: Ben Fitzhugh
Author: International Council for Archaeozoology. Conference
Author: Brian M. Fagan