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Cahokia Mounds
AvWarren King Moorehead,John E. Kellym. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
450 kr
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This is a report of archaeological investigations conducted at Cahokia from 1921 to 1927 by Warren Moorehead, who confirmed that the mounds were built by indigenous people and who worked to assure preservation of the site. It includes his 1929 report along with portions of two preliminary reports.
Method and Theory in American Archaeology
AvGordon R. Willey,Philip Phillipsm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
450 kr
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In 1958 Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips first published Method and Theory in American Archaeology - a volume that went through five printings, the last in 1967 at the height of what became known as the new, or processual, archaeology. The advent of processual archaeology, according to Willey and Phillips, represented a ""theoretical debate...a question of whether archaeology should be the study of cultural history or the study of cultural process."" Willey and Phillips suggested that little interpretation had taken place in American archaeology, and their book offered an analytical perspective; the methods they described and the structural framework they used for synthesizing American prehistory were all geared toward interpretation. Method and Theory served as the catalyst and primary reader on the topic for over a decade. This facsimile reprint edition of the original University of Chicago Press volume includes a new foreword by Gordon R. Willey, which outlines the state of American archaeology at the time of the original publication, and a new introduction by the editors to place the book in historical context. The bibliography is exhaustive. Academic libraries, students, professionals, and knowledgeable amateurs will welcome this new edition of a standard-maker among texts on American archaeology.
W.C.McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method
AvR. Lee Lyman,Michael J. O'Brienm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
450 kr
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This volume explains the deep influence of biological methods and theories on the practice of Americanist archaeology by exploring W.C. McKern's use of Linnaean taxonomy as the model for development of a pottery classification system.
Mound-Builders
AvHenry Clyde Shetrone
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
507 kr
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With this accessible volume, Henry Clyde Shetrone made available to general readers the archaeological research data and conclusions concerning the ancient mounds and earthworks that dot the landscape of eastern North America. Dismissing popularly held theories of mysterious giants who built these structures, he explained that their purposes were defensive and ceremonial, that they had been used for habitation, burial, and worship. Their builders were antecedents of the native peoples of present-day America and had been skilled artisans and engineers with successful agricultural practices and structured leadership. Twenty chapters discuss aspects of mound-builder cultures: quarrying of flint and obsidian for knapping into points; mining of copper and iron and its fashioning into tools and ceremonial objects; spinning and weaving materials and methods; smoking customs; carving of calumets and their use in ceremony; freshwater pearls and other items for body ornamentation; and the use of stone burial vaults, cremation basins, and concepts of an afterlife. Data is presented from excavations ranging broadly from Massachusetts to Florida and from Texas to North Dakota. As Bradley Lepper points out in his new introduction, ""The Mound-Builders is a testament to Shetrone's success at working towards 'correlation and systematization' of data, as well as public education...Shetrone was no arm-chair popularizer. His work was based on years of excavation and first-hand familiarity with much of the data. His popularizations [still] echo with the ring of the shovel and trowel in gravelly soil.
Archaeology of Ocmulgee Old Fields, Macon, Georgia
AvCarol I. Mason
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
336 kr
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Ocmulgee Old Fields near Macon, Georgia, is the site of a Lower Creek village and associated English trading house dating from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It was excavated in the early 1930s as part of a WPA project directed by A. R. Kelly, which focused primarily on the major Mississippian temple mounds of Macon Plateau. The specific data for the Old Fields was not analyzed until nearly 30 years after the excavation. Part of the significance of this site lies in its secure identification with a known group of people and the linkage of those people with recognizable archaeological remains. The Old Fields site was among the very first for which this kind of identification was possible and stands at the head of a continuing tradition of historic sites archaeology in the Southeast. Carol I. Mason's classic study of the Ocmulgee Old Fields site has been a model for contact-period Indian archaeology since the 1960s. The report includes a discussion of the historic setting and an analysis of the archaeological materials with an identification of the Lower Creek town and possibly of the English trader who lived there. Now, for the first time, the reports is widely available in book form. With a new foreword by the author and a new introduction from Southeastern archaeology expert Marvin T. Smith, readers have the benefit of a contemporary view of this very fine plece of careful scholarship. ""Mason's work significantly advanced Creek archaeology in general and the archaeology of European-Indian contact studies in particular. She combined excellent historical research with archaeological analysis, yielding a historical archaeological synthesis that was groundbreaking for the emerging discipline of historical archaeology...Her description of the European trading post and analysis of aboriginal features intruding this European feature are extremely detailed. She was able to document Native use of the trading post area by the Creeks after the post was abandoned."" - from the new Introduction

Classics in Southeastern Archaeology – serie

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Cahokia Mounds
AvWarren King Moorehead,John E. Kellym. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
450 kr
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This is a report of archaeological investigations conducted at Cahokia from 1921 to 1927 by Warren Moorehead, who confirmed that the mounds were built by indigenous people and who worked to assure preservation of the site. It includes his 1929 report along with portions of two preliminary reports.
Method and Theory in American Archaeology
AvGordon R. Willey,Philip Phillipsm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
450 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In 1958 Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips first published Method and Theory in American Archaeology - a volume that went through five printings, the last in 1967 at the height of what became known as the new, or processual, archaeology. The advent of processual archaeology, according to Willey and Phillips, represented a ""theoretical debate...a question of whether archaeology should be the study of cultural history or the study of cultural process."" Willey and Phillips suggested that little interpretation had taken place in American archaeology, and their book offered an analytical perspective; the methods they described and the structural framework they used for synthesizing American prehistory were all geared toward interpretation. Method and Theory served as the catalyst and primary reader on the topic for over a decade. This facsimile reprint edition of the original University of Chicago Press volume includes a new foreword by Gordon R. Willey, which outlines the state of American archaeology at the time of the original publication, and a new introduction by the editors to place the book in historical context. The bibliography is exhaustive. Academic libraries, students, professionals, and knowledgeable amateurs will welcome this new edition of a standard-maker among texts on American archaeology.
W.C.McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method
AvR. Lee Lyman,Michael J. O'Brienm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
450 kr
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This volume explains the deep influence of biological methods and theories on the practice of Americanist archaeology by exploring W.C. McKern's use of Linnaean taxonomy as the model for development of a pottery classification system.
Mound-Builders
AvHenry Clyde Shetrone
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
507 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
With this accessible volume, Henry Clyde Shetrone made available to general readers the archaeological research data and conclusions concerning the ancient mounds and earthworks that dot the landscape of eastern North America. Dismissing popularly held theories of mysterious giants who built these structures, he explained that their purposes were defensive and ceremonial, that they had been used for habitation, burial, and worship. Their builders were antecedents of the native peoples of present-day America and had been skilled artisans and engineers with successful agricultural practices and structured leadership. Twenty chapters discuss aspects of mound-builder cultures: quarrying of flint and obsidian for knapping into points; mining of copper and iron and its fashioning into tools and ceremonial objects; spinning and weaving materials and methods; smoking customs; carving of calumets and their use in ceremony; freshwater pearls and other items for body ornamentation; and the use of stone burial vaults, cremation basins, and concepts of an afterlife. Data is presented from excavations ranging broadly from Massachusetts to Florida and from Texas to North Dakota. As Bradley Lepper points out in his new introduction, ""The Mound-Builders is a testament to Shetrone's success at working towards 'correlation and systematization' of data, as well as public education...Shetrone was no arm-chair popularizer. His work was based on years of excavation and first-hand familiarity with much of the data. His popularizations [still] echo with the ring of the shovel and trowel in gravelly soil.
Archaeology of Ocmulgee Old Fields, Macon, Georgia
AvCarol I. Mason
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
336 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Ocmulgee Old Fields near Macon, Georgia, is the site of a Lower Creek village and associated English trading house dating from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It was excavated in the early 1930s as part of a WPA project directed by A. R. Kelly, which focused primarily on the major Mississippian temple mounds of Macon Plateau. The specific data for the Old Fields was not analyzed until nearly 30 years after the excavation. Part of the significance of this site lies in its secure identification with a known group of people and the linkage of those people with recognizable archaeological remains. The Old Fields site was among the very first for which this kind of identification was possible and stands at the head of a continuing tradition of historic sites archaeology in the Southeast. Carol I. Mason's classic study of the Ocmulgee Old Fields site has been a model for contact-period Indian archaeology since the 1960s. The report includes a discussion of the historic setting and an analysis of the archaeological materials with an identification of the Lower Creek town and possibly of the English trader who lived there. Now, for the first time, the reports is widely available in book form. With a new foreword by the author and a new introduction from Southeastern archaeology expert Marvin T. Smith, readers have the benefit of a contemporary view of this very fine plece of careful scholarship. ""Mason's work significantly advanced Creek archaeology in general and the archaeology of European-Indian contact studies in particular. She combined excellent historical research with archaeological analysis, yielding a historical archaeological synthesis that was groundbreaking for the emerging discipline of historical archaeology...Her description of the European trading post and analysis of aboriginal features intruding this European feature are extremely detailed. She was able to document Native use of the trading post area by the Creeks after the post was abandoned."" - from the new Introduction

Classics in Southeastern Archaeology – serie

Cahokia Mounds

Method and Theory in American Archaeology

W.C.McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method

Mound-Builders

Archaeology of Ocmulgee Old Fields, Macon, Georgia

Classics in Southeastern Archaeology – serie

Cahokia Mounds

Method and Theory in American Archaeology

W.C.McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method

Mound-Builders

Archaeology of Ocmulgee Old Fields, Macon, Georgia

Classics in Southeastern Archaeology – serie

Cahokia Mounds

Method and Theory in American Archaeology

W.C.McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method

Mound-Builders

Archaeology of Ocmulgee Old Fields, Macon, Georgia

Classics in Southeastern Archaeology – serie

Cahokia Mounds

Method and Theory in American Archaeology

W.C.McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method

Mound-Builders

Archaeology of Ocmulgee Old Fields, Macon, Georgia