Author: Helen C. McCarthyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Ethnography and Prehistory of the North Coast Range, California
Author: Helen C. McCarthyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
California Prehistory
Author: Terry L. JonesPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759108721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Reader of original synthesizing articles for introductory courses on archaeology and native peoples of California.
Cultural Resources Overview for Northwestern California
Author: Jerome KingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of California and the Great Basin
Author: Noel D. JusticePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253108838
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Noel Justice adds another regional guide to his series of important reference works that survey, describe, and categorize the projectile point and cutting tools used in prehistory by Native American peoples. This volume addresses the region of California and the Great Basin. Written for archaeologists and amateur collectors alike, the book describes over 50 types of stone arrowhead and spear points according to period, culture, and region. With the knowledge of someone trained to fashion projectile points with techniques used by the Indians, Justice describes how the points were made, used, and re-sharpened. His detailed drawings illustrate the way the Indians shaped their tools, what styles were peculiar to which regions, and how the various types can best be identified. There are hundreds of drawings, organized by type cluster and other identifying characteristics. The book also includes distribution maps and color plates that will further aid the researcher or collector in identifying specific periods, cultures, and projectile types.
The Wintu & Their Neighbors
Author: Christopher K. Chase-DunnPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816518005
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
On the cutting edge of world-systems theory comes The Wintu and Their Neighbors, the first case study to compare and contrast systematically an indigenous Native American society with the modern world at large. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, and history, Christopher Chase-Dunn and Kelly M. Mann have scoured the archaeological record of the Wintu, an aboriginal people without agriculture, metallurgy, or class structure who lived in the wooded valleys and hills of northern California. By studying the household composition, kinship, and trade relations of the Wintu, they call into question some of the basic assumptions of prior sociological theory and analysis. Chase-Dunn and Mann argue that Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems perspective, originally applied only to the study of modern capitalistic societies, can also be applied to the study of the social, economic, and political relationships in small stateless societies. They contend that, despite the fact that the Wintu appear on the surface to have been a household-based society, this indigenous group was in fact involved in a myriad of networks of interaction, which resulted in intermarriage and which extended for many miles around the region. These networks, which were not based on the economic dominance of one society over anotherÑa concept fundamental to Wallerstein's world-systems theoryÑled to the eventual expansion of the Wintu as a cultural group. Thus, despite the fact that the Wintu did not behave like a modern societyÑlacking wealth accumulation, class distinctions, and cultural dominanceÑChase-Dunn and Mann insist that the Wintu were involved in a world-system and argue, therefore, that the concept of the "minisystem" should be discarded. They urge other scholars to employ this comparative world-systems perspective in their research on stateless societies.
Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) of 1992 Implementation, Programmatic EIS
Author: California-Oregon Transmission Project and the Los Banos-Gates Transmission Project (CA,OR,WA)
Author: Central Valley Project Improvement Act: Technical appendix volume ten
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Southwestern United States
Author: Noel D. JusticePublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253108821
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The American Southwest is the focus for this volume in Noel Justice's series of reference works that survey, describe, and categorize the projectile point and cutting tools used in prehistory by Native American peoples. Written for archaeologists and amateur collectors alike, the book describes over 50 types of stone arrowhead and spear points according to period, culture, and region. With the knowledge of someone trained to fashion projectile points with techniques used by the Indians, Justice describes how the points were made, used, and re-sharpened. His detailed drawings illustrate the way the Indians shaped their tools, what styles were peculiar to which regions, and how the various types can best be identified. There are hundreds of drawings, organized by type cluster and other identifying characteristics. The book also includes distribution maps and color plates that will further aid the researcher or collector in identifying specific periods, cultures, and projectile types.
Beyond Primitivism
Author: Jacob Kẹhinde OluponaPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415273206
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
At a time when local traditions across the world are forcibly colliding with global culture, Beyond Primitivism explores the future of indigenous religions as they encounter modernity and globalisation.