Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Santa Ana River Main Stem and Santiago Creek
Author: Foundations of Chumash Complexity
Author: Jeanne E. ArnoldPublisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN: 1938770196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This volume highlights the latest research on the foundations of sociopolitical complexity in coastal California. The populous maritime societies of southern California, particularly the groups known collectively as the Chumash, have gone largely unrecognized as prototypical complex hunter-gatherers, only recently beginning to emerge from the shadow of their more celebrated counterparts on the Northwest Coast of North America. While Northwest cultures are renowned for such complex institutions as ceremonial potlatches, slavery, cedar plank-house villages, and rich artistic traditions, the Chumash are increasingly recognized as complex hunter-gatherers with a different set of organizational characteristics: ascribed chiefly leadership, a strong maritime economy based on oceangoing canoes, an integrative ceremonial system, and intensive and highly specialized craft production activities. Chumash sites provide some of the most robust data on these subjects available in the Americas. Contributors present stimulating new analyses of household and village organization, ceremonial specialists, craft specializations and settlement data, cultural transmission processes, bead manufacturing practices, watercraft, and the acquisition of prized marine species.
Annual Report - Archaeological Survey
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Archaeological SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Californiana
Author: Stephen GouldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Monograph
Author: California Maritime Archaeology
Author: RaabPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759113181
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
San Clemente Island is a microcosm of California coastal archaeology from prehistoric through historic times—not only because of the extensiveness of its archaeological remains but because those remains have been so well preserved. In California Maritime Archaeology, the authors use the island as a platform to explore evidence of early seafaring, colonization, paleoenvironmental change, and cultural interaction along the California coast. They make a strong case that San Clemente island should be seen as a kind of "California archaeological Galapagos," offering an extraordinary variety of ancient life as well as surprising information about prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the northern Pacific. The authors' two decades of research have resulted in this rich cultural history that defies widespread assumptions about California's ancient maritime history.
Easter Island's Silent Sentinels
Author: Kenneth TreisterPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826352642
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"This richly illustrated book of the history, culture, and art of Easter Island is the first to examine in detail the island's vernacular architecture, often overshadowed by its giant stone statues"--Provided by publisher.
Historical Archaeology of Childhood and Parenting
Author: April Kamp-WhittakerPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031375785
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
MONTHLY CHECKLIST
Author: The Protohistoric Pueblo World, A.D. 1275-1600
Author: E. Charles AdamsPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816533636
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
In the centuries before the arrival of Europeans, the Pueblo world underwent nearly continuous reorganization. Populations moved from Chaco Canyon and the great centers of the Mesa Verde region to areas along the Rio Grande, the Little Colorado River, and the Mogollon Rim, where they began constructing larger and differently organized villages, many with more than 500 rooms. Villages also tended to occur in clusters that have been interpreted in a number of different ways. This book describes and interprets this period of southwestern history immediately before and after initial European contact, A.D. 1275-1600—a span of time during which Pueblo peoples and culture were dramatically transformed. It summarizes one hundred years of research and archaeological data for the Pueblo IV period as it explores the nature of the organization of village clusters and what they meant in behavioral and political terms. Twelve of the chapters individually examine the northern and eastern portions of the Southwest and the groups who settled there during the protohistoric period. The authors develop histories for settlement clusters that offer insights into their unique development and the variety of ways that villages formed these clusters. These analyses show the extent to which spatial clusters of large settlements may have formed regionally organized alliances, and in some cases they reveal a connection between protohistoric villages and indigenous or migratory groups from the preceding period. This volume is distinct from other recent syntheses of Pueblo IV research in that it treats the settlement cluster as the analytic unit. By analyzing how members of clusters of villages interacted with one another, it offers a clearer understanding of the value of this level of analysis and suggests possibilities for future research. In addition to offering new insights on the Pueblo IV world, the volume serves as a compendium of information on more than 400 known villages larger than 50 rooms. It will be of lasting interest not only to archaeologists but also to geographers, land managers, and general readers interested in Pueblo culture.