Author: Anan W. Raymond
Publisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Donald Grayson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520948718
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for the unusual fact that none of its rivers or streams flow into the sea. This fascinating illustrated journey through deep time is the definitive environmental and human history of this beautiful and little traveled region, home to Death Valley, the Great Salt Lake, Lake Tahoe, and the Bonneville Salt Flats. Donald K. Grayson synthesizes what we now know about the past 25,000 years in the Great Basin—its climate, lakes, glaciers, plants, animals, and peoples—based on information gleaned from the region’s exquisite natural archives in such repositories as lake cores, packrat middens, tree rings, and archaeological sites. A perfect guide for students, scholars, travelers, and general readers alike, the book weaves together history, archaeology, botany, geology, biogeography, and other disciplines into one compelling panorama across a truly unique American landscape.

Author: Brian E. Hemphill
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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An examination of how the earliest inhabitants of the Great Basin in Nevada, Utah, and Oregon made use of the ancient marshes and lakes

Author: Society for Archaeological Sciences (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 732

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Author: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
Publisher: G.P Putnam's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Daniel Pauly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139451812
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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In Darwin's Fishes, Daniel Pauly presents an encyclopaedia of ichthyology, ecology and evolution, based upon everything that Charles Darwin ever wrote about fish. Entries are arranged alphabetically and can be about, for example, a particular fish taxon, an anatomical part, a chemical substance, a scientist, a place, or an evolutionary or ecological concept. The reader can start wherever they like and are then led by a series of cross-references on a fascinating voyage of interconnected entries, each indirectly or directly connected with original writings from Darwin himself. Along the way, the reader is offered interpretation of the historical material put in the context of both Darwin's time and that of contemporary biology and ecology. This book is intended for anyone interested in fishes, the work of Charles Darwin, evolutionary biology and ecology, and natural history in general.

Author: Daniel P. Dugas
Publisher:
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Category : Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (Or.)
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Author: Joel C. Janetski
Publisher: Occasional Papers
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Most of the papers in this volume were presented at the Twenty-First Great Basin Anthropological Conference (GBAC) held in Park City in 1988. The theme of the conference was wetlands studies in the Great Basin.

Author: Dave N. Schmitt
Publisher: University of Utah Anthropolog
ISBN: 9780874808414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Covers an isolated limestone ridge on the southern edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert, where archaeologists have exposed a series of stratified deposits spanning the entire Holocene era.

Author: Payson D. Sheets
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483263185
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 663

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Volcanic Activity and Human Ecology deals with dating, chronology, stratigraphy, volcanic activity, and with the impacts of volcanism on animals, plants, human populations, and the environment. Some of the chapters explain how such findings must be weighed against other causes that influence human behavior and survival, such as factors of social customs, climatic change, shifting biogeographic patterns, disease, and the ability to adapt. Each of the chapters that assess the possible human response to volcanism does so by searching for multiple explanations of the archaeological record, avoiding the simple argument that people were dramatically and inevitably overcome by catastrophic geologic events. The book begins with discussions of volcanism as seen by geologists and pedologists. These include s a general overview of volcanoes and volcanism; a review of the production, dispersal, and properties of tephra and of the geologic methods used to study tephra; and the nature of volcanic soils and their economic impact. Subsequent chapters use the geologic and modern records to examine volcanoes as hazards to people. The final series of papers deals with the interrelationships between volcanism and human occupations as seen through the archaeological, paleobotanical, and paleozoological records.