Author: Earl Herbert Swanson (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uto-Aztecan Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Utaztekan Prehistory
Author: Earl Herbert Swanson (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uto-Aztecan Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Utaztekan Prehistory
Author: Earl Herbert SwansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Uto-Aztecan Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Prehistory and History of the Winnemucca District
Author: Regina C. SmithPublisher: Reno, Nev. : Winnemucca District, Bureau of Land Management
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Prehistory of the Rustler Hills
Author: Donny L. HamiltonPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788851
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Northeastern Trans-Pecos region of Texas is an unforgiving environment for anyone living off the land, yet nomadic hunters and gatherers roamed its deserts and mountains and sheltered in caves and sinkholes from around AD 200 to 1450. This book provides detailed insights into the lifeways of these little-known prehistoric peoples. It places their occupation of the region in a wider temporal and cultural framework through a comprehensive description and analysis of the archaeological remains excavated by Donny L. Hamilton at Granado Cave in 1978. Hamilton begins with a brief overview of the geology and environment of the Granado Cave area and reviews previous archaeological investigations. Then he and other researchers present detailed analyses of the burials and other material remains found in the cave, as well as the results of radiocarbon dating. From these findings, he reconstructs the subsistence patterns and burial practices of these Native Americans, whom he identifies as a distinct group that was pushed into the environment by surrounding peoples. He proposes that they should be represented by a new archaeological phase, thus helping to clarify the poorly understood late prehistory of the Trans-Pecos.
Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America
Author: Guy E. GibbonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136801790
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
First published in 1998. Did prehistoric humans walk to North America from Siberia? Who were the inhabitants of the spectacular Anasazi cliff dwellings in the Southwest and why did they disappear? Native Americans used acorns as a major food source, but how did they get rid of the tannic acid which is toxic to humans? How does radiocarbon dating work and how accurate is it? Written for the informed lay person, college-level student, and professional, Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia is an important resource for the study of the earliest North Americans; including facts, theories, descriptions, and speculations on the ancient nomads and hunter-gathers that populated continental North America.
Utaztekan Prehistory
Author: James A. GossUtaztekan Prehistory
Author: Earl Herbert SwansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Morphology at the Interfaces
Author: Jason D. HaugenPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9789027255006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This monograph addresses morphology and its interfaces with phonology and syntax by examining comparative data from the Uto-Aztecan language family, and analyses involving reduplication as well as noun incorporation and related derivational morphology are provided within the framework of Distributed Morphology. Reduplication is treated by analyzing reduplicative morphemes (reduplicants) as morphological pieces (Vocabulary Items) inserted into syntactic slots at Morphological Structure. Noun incorporation constructions are analyzed as involving either incorporation (head movement in syntax, a la Baker 1988), or conflation, involving direct merger of a nominal root into verbal position (a la Hale and Keyser 2002). It is argued that denominal verb constructions should be treated as a sub-case of NI, as in Hale and Keyser (1993). Finally, the historical development of the polysynthesis parameter in Nahuatl is discussed, and a reconstruction of the likely stages of development, each of which is attested elsewhere in the family, is presented.
The Lost Land
Author: John R. ChávezPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826307507
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
A perilous voyage to the magic land of Occo, inhabited by hospitable farmers, marauding cannibals and mysterious fey people, transforms a youngboy into a man.
Viewing the Ancestors
Author: Robert S. McPhersonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806145706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Anaasází people left behind marvelous structures, the ruins of which are preserved at Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, and Canyon de Chelly. But what do we know about these people, and how do they relate to Native nations living in the Southwest today? Archaeologists have long studied the American Southwest, but as historian Robert McPherson shows in Viewing the Ancestors, their findings may not tell the whole story. McPherson maintains that combining archaeology with knowledge derived from the oral traditions of the Navajo, Ute, Paiute, and Hopi peoples yields a more complete history. McPherson’s approach to oral tradition reveals evidence that, contrary to the archaeological consensus that these groups did not coexist, the Navajos interacted with their Anaasází neighbors. In addition to examining archaeological literature, McPherson has studied traditional teachings and interviewed Native people to obtain accounts of their history and of the relations between the Anaasází and Athapaskan ancestors of today’s Hopi, Pueblo, and Navajo peoples. Oral history, McPherson points out, tells why things happened. For example, archaeological findings indicate that the Hopi are descended from the Anaasází, but Hopi oral tradition better explains why the ancient Puebloans may have left the Four Corners region: the drought that may have driven the Anaasází away was a symptom of what had gone wrong within the society—a point that few archaeologists could derive from what is found in the ground. An important text for non-Native scholars as well as Native people committed to retaining traditional knowledge, Viewing the Ancestors exemplifies collaboration between the sciences and oral traditions rather than a contest between the two.