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Category : Alberta
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Archaeological Survey of Alberta Manuscript Series
Author: Light from Ancient Campfires
Author: Trevor Richard PeckPublisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1897425961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
"the first book in twenty years to gather together a comprehensive prehistoric record --
The Buffalo People
Author: Liz BryanPublisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781894384919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Annotation The Native people of the Canadian prairies have been living on the land for at least 12,000 years, finding sustainable lifestyles from the grasslands and the aspen parklands. Our knowledge of these people is limited: they had no writing, no large settlements, and very little in the way of lasting material things. Before the arrival of Europeans, they had no guns, no horses, and no hard metals. What clues we have come primarily from the work of archaeologists sifting through the buried evidence-little bits of stone, bone, and pottery, refuse heaps and firepits, ancients villages and burial sites, fingerprints, and prehistoric blood. Liz Bryan takes the clues from decades of archaeological research and presents an immensely entertaining and informative account of these ancient people. First published by University of Alberta Press in 1991, this revised and updated edition of the book features photographs, maps, and line drawings to help illustrate this amazing story.
Understanding Stone Tools and Archaeological Sites
Author: Brian Patrick KooymanPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826323330
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Covers manufacturing techniques, lithic types and materials, reduction strategies and techniques, worldwide lithic technology, production variables, meaning of form, and usewear and residue analysis.
Hunters of the Recent Past
Author: Leslie B. DavisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317598350
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
One of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, which brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, academics from contingent disciplines, and non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This book considers prehistoric and more recent manifestations of human hunting behaviour, with a general emphasis on communal hunting. It demonstrates that the combination of archaeological, ethnographic and ethnohistorical approaches provides a researched basis for consideration of the topic on worldwide, regional, and local scales. It includes theoretical and methodological issues, within a context of enquiry, original data presentation, and discussion. It is of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists and ethnohistorians.
The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains
Author: Douglas B. BamforthPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009038613
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
In this volume, Douglas B. Bamforth offers an archaeological overview of the Great Plains, the vast, open grassland bordered by forests and mountain ranges situated in the heart of North America. Synthesizing a century of scholarship and new archaeological evidence, he focuses on changes in resource use, continental trade connections, social formations, and warfare over a period of 15,000 years. Bamforth investigates how foragers harvested the grasslands more intensively over time, ultimately turning to maize farming, and examines the persistence of industrial mobile bison hunters in much of the region as farmers lived in communities ranging from hamlets to towns with thousands of occupants. He also explores how social groups formed and changed, migrations of peoples in and out of the Plains, and the conflicts that occurred over time and space. Significantly, Bamforth's volume demonstrates how archaeology can be used as the basis for telling long-term, problem-oriented human history.
Archaeology in Alberta
Author: Jack BrinkPublisher: Medicine Hat : Archaeological Society of Alberta
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Author: Preston T. Miracle