Author: Frances Joan MathienPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bandelier National Monument (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Pajarito Plateau
Author: Frances Joan MathienPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bandelier National Monument (N.M.)
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
From Clovis to Comanchero
Author: Jack L. HofmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Water, Watersheds, and Land Use in New Mexico
Author: Peggy Sue JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Effects of Reservoir Installation, San Juan-Chama Project Water and Reservoir Operations on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Rio Chama and Rio Grande, Northern and Central New Mexico, 1938-2000
Author: Jeff B. LangmanPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Reservoirs
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The American Southwest and Mesoamerica
Author: Jonathon E. EricsonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306441783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This is the only available volume to summarize current knowledge of prehistoric regional exchange in the American Southwest and Mesoamerica. As such, anthropologists and archaeologists will find it a valuable source of important data for comparative analysis of regional systems relative to sociopolitical organization.
Resource Depression and Intensification During the Late Holocene, San Francisco Bay
Author: Jack M. BroughtonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520915916
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Emeryville Shellmound, on the east shore of San Francisco Bay, was excavated and subsequently destroyed in the early twentieth century. From its stratified deposits, which span the period 2600 to 700 years ago, the author identified 2,004 fish and 15,893 mammal specimens, and analyzed these and 2,302 avian remains previously identified by Hildegarde Howard in the 1920s. A battery of independent tests derived from foraging theory supports the conclusion that human-induced impacts on vertebrate populations caused declines in the efficiency of foraging across the time that the Emeryville locality was occupied.
Galisteo Basin Archaeological Sites
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Archaeological Semiotics
Author: Robert W. PreucelPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 140519913X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This interdisciplinary book examines archaeology’s engagement with semiotics, from its early structuralist beginnings to its more recent Peircian encounters. It represents the first sustained engagement with Peircian semiotics in archaeology, as well as the first discussion of how pragmatic anthropology articulates with anthropological archaeology. Its central thesis is that archaeology is a distinctive kind of semiotic enterprise; one devoted to giving meaning to the past in the present through the study of materiality. It compliments standard studies of linguistics and reformulates contemporary theories of material culture. Providing an introduction to Saussure and a review of his legacy across structural, symbolic, and cognitive anthropology, Preucel goes on to present the Peircian alternative and highlights its influence on pragmatic anthropology. Of special interest are the discussions of the interrelations of structuralism and processual archaeology, poststructuralism and postprocessual archaeologies, and cognitive science and cognitive archaeology. The author offers two original case studies demonstrating how material culture pragmatically mediates social relations- one focusing on the aftermath of the Pueblo Revolt from 1680-1694 and the other on the New England utopian community of Brook Farm from 1842-1846. Throughout his analysis, Preucel emphasizes the close links between archaeology and other social sciences. But he also contends that archaeology, by virtue of the powerful ideological character of the past, can open up new spaces for discourse and dialogue about meaning, and, in the process, make a valuable contribution to contemporary semiotics.
Pendejo Cave
Author: Richard S. MacNeishPublisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826324054
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
This account of the archaeology of a cave in southern New Mexico makes a dramatic contribution to the ongoing debate over how long human beings have lived in the Americas. The findings presented here show that human settlement may go back as far as 75,000 years before the present, whereas the long-accepted Clovis dates showed humans only about 12,000 years ago. MacNeish and his colleagues subjected the cave, its environs, and its contents to rigorous interdisciplinary investigation. The first section of this volume comprises their reports on the changing environment of the area. The second section concentrates on the excavation of the cave's layers, presenting the results of radiocarbon dating and describing the evidence of human occupation, including friction skin prints and human hair. The third section discusses the cultural implications of the materials recovered and suggests how the ancient peoples may have exploited the changing environment and developed different ways of life throughout the Americas before the time of Clovis man. No serious discussion of early inhabitants in the New World can disregard the findings presented in this monumental work of scholarship.
Bridge Scour and Stream Instability Countermeasures
Author: U. S. Department of TransportationPublisher:
ISBN: 9781329651029
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The purpose of this document is to identify and provide design guidelines for bridge scour and stream instability countermeasures that have been implemented by various State departments of transportation (DOTs) in the United States. Countermeasure experience, selection, and design guidance are consolidated from other FHWA publications in this document to support a comprehensive analysis of scour and stream instability problems and provide a range of solutions to those problems. The results of recently completed National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) projects are incorporated in the design guidance, including: countermeasures to protect bridge piers and abutments from scour; riprap design criteria, specifications, and quality control, and environmentally sensitive channel and bank protection measures. Selected innovative countermeasure concepts and guidance derived from practice outside the United States are introduced. In addition, guidance for the preparation of Plans of Action ...