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Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico
Häftad, 2001
375 kr
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Using government documents, archives, and local histories, Simmons has painstakingly separated the often repeated and often incorrect hearsay from more accurate accounts of the Ute Indians.
Mesa Verde National Park
Shadows of the Centuries
Häftad, 2002
291 kr
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Originally published in 1988, Mesa Verde National Park: Shadows of the Centuries is an engaging and artfully illustrated history of an enigmatic assemblage of canyons and mesas tucked into the southwestern corner of Colorado. Duane A. Smith recounts the dramatic 1888 "discovery" of the cliff …
Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany
Av John M. Marston, Jade d'Alpoim Guedes m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
535 kr
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Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the …
No One Ailing Except a Physician
Medicine in the Mining West, 1848-1919
Av Duane A. Smith, Ronald C. Brown
Häftad, 2014
310 kr
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Co-Winner of the 2004 Colorado Endowment for the Humanities Publication PrizeFrom burying scurvy victims up to their necks in the earth to drinking kerosene mixed with sugar to treat influenza, mid-nineteenth century medicine in the mining communities of the West usually consisted of home remedies …
Abundance
The Archaeology of Plenitude
Häftad, 2020
501 kr
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Using case studies from around the globe—including Mesoamerica, North and South America, Africa, China, and the Greco-Roman world—and across multiple time periods, the authors in this volume make the case that abundance provides an essential explanatory perspective on ancient peoples’ choices and …
Birds and Beasts of Ancient Mesoamerica
Animal Symbolism in the Postclassic Period
Av Susan Milbrath, Elizabeth Baquedano
Häftad, 2025
804 kr
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"These Are Our Roots": The History of the K'Iche' People as Told by Lords of the Tamub' and Ilokab'
Inbunden, 2026
999 kr
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Maya Creation Myths
Words and Worlds of the Chilam Balam
Häftad, 2012
337 kr
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There is no Classical Yucatecan Maya word for "myth." But around the close of the seventeenth century, an anonymous Maya scribe penned what he called u kahlay cab tu kinil, "the world history of the era," before Christianity came to the Peten. He collected numerous accounts of the cyclical …
Reversing the Lens
Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Sexuality through Film
Av Jun Xing, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
Häftad, 2003
295 kr
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Reversing the Lens brings together noted scholars in history, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies and film studies to promote film as a powerful classroom tool that can be used to foster cross-cultural communication with respect to race and ethnicity. Through such films as Skin Deep, Slaying …
Predatory Bureaucracy
The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West
Häftad, 2005
317 kr
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Predatory Bureaucracy is the definitive history of America's wolves and our policies toward predators. Tracking wolves from the days of the conquistadors to the present, author Michael Robinson shows that their story merges with that of the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey. This federal agency was …
Rocky Mountain Mammals
A Handbook of Mammals of Rocky Mountain National Park and Vicinity, Third Edition
Häftad, 2007
267 kr
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Revised, updated, and with more than 80 new color photographs, Rocky Mountain Mammals, Third Edition is a nontechnical guide to the mammals of the Southern Rocky Mountains and their foothills, with special emphasis on Rocky Mountain National Park and vicinity.Designed for quick reference and …
Listening to Cougar
Av Marc Bekoff, Cara Blessley Lowe
Häftad, 2008
239 kr
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This spellbinding tribute to Puma concolor honors the big cat's presence on the land and in our psyches. In some essays, the puma appears front and center: a lion leaps over Rick Bass's feet, hurtles off a cliff in front of J. Frank Dobie, gazes at Julia Corbett when she opens her eyes after an …
Mammals of Colorado
Av David M. Armstrong, James P. Fitzgerald m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
777 kr
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Thoroughly revised and updated, Mammals of Colorado, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference on the nine orders and 128 species of Colorado's recent native fauna, detailing each species' description, habitat, distribution, population ecology, diet and foraging, predators and parasites, …
Gospel of Progressivism
Moral Reform and Labor War in Colorado, 1900-1930
Inbunden, 2010
246 kr
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Chronicling the negotiations of Progressive groups and the obstacles that constrained them, The Gospel of Progressivism details the fight against corporate and political corruption in Colorado during the early twentieth century. While the various groups differed in their specific agendas, …
Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition
Av April Nowell, Iain Davidson
Häftad, 2011
391 kr
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Stone tools are the most durable and common type of archaeological remain and one of the most important sources of information about behaviors of early hominins. Stone Tools and the Evolution of Human Cognition develops methods for examining questions of cognition, demonstrating the progression of …
Prehistory of South America
Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent
Häftad, 2014
521 kr
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A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in …
Sacred Darkness
A Global Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves
Av Holley Moyes
Häftad, 2014
463 kr
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Caves have been used in various ways across human society, but despite the persistence within popular culture of the iconic caveman, deep caves were never used primarily as habitation sites for early humans. Rather, in both ancient and contemporary contexts, caves have served primarily as ritual …
Great Unknown
Japanese American Sketches
Inbunden, 2016
579 kr
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In TheGreat Unknown, award-winning historian and journalist Greg Robinson offers a fascinating and compulsively readable collection of biographical portraits of extraordinary but unheralded figures in Japanese American history: men and women who made remarkable contributions in the arts, …
Archaeological Variability and Interpretation in Global Perspective
Av Alan P. Sullivan III, Deborah Irene Olszewski
Inbunden, 2016
1164 kr
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In Archaeological Variability and Interpretation in Global Perspective, contributors illustrate the virtues of various ecological, experimental, statistical, typological, technological, and cognitive/social approaches for understanding the origins, formation histories, and inferential potential of …
Ancient Maya Commerce
Multidisciplinary Research at Chunchucmil
Inbunden, 2017
956 kr
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Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico—a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil …
"The Only True People"
Linking Maya Identities Past and Present
Av Bethany J. Beyette, Lisa J. LeCount
Inbunden, 2017
936 kr
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"The Only True People" is a timely and rigorous examination of ethnicity among the ancient and modern Maya, focusing on ethnogenesis and exploring the complexities of Maya identity—how it developed, where and when it emerged, and why it continues to change over time. In the volume, a …
Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World
Navigating Symbolism, Meaning, and Significance
Av Liam M. Brady, Paul S.C. Taçon
Häftad, 2017
550 kr
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Rock art has long been considered an archaeological artifact reflecting activities from the past, yet it is also a phenomenon with present-day meaning and relevance to both indigenous and non-indigenous communities. Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World challenges traditional ways of …
Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers
From the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea
Av A. Asa Eger
Inbunden, 2019
753 kr
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The Archaeology of Medieval Islamic Frontiers demonstrates that different areas of the Islamic polity previously understood as “minor frontiers” were, in fact, of substantial importance to state formation. Contributors explore different conceptualizations of “border,” the importance of which …
Communities and Households in the Greater American Southwest
New Perspectives and Case Studies
Inbunden, 2019
1014 kr
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Communities and Households in the Greater American Southwest presents new research on human organization in the American Southwest, examining families, households, and communities in the Ancestral Puebloan, Mogollon, and Hohokam major cultural areas, as well as the Fremont, Jornada Mogollon, and …
Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica
Operational, Cognitive, and Experiential Approaches
Av Shawn G. Morton, Meaghan M. Peuramaki-Brown
Inbunden, 2019
982 kr
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Seeking Conflict in Mesoamerica focuses on the conflicts of the ancient Maya, providing a holistic history of Maya hostilities and comparing them with those of neighboring Mesoamerican villages and towns. Contributors to the volume explore the varied stories of past Maya conflicts through …
Rewriting Maya Religion
Domingo de Vico, Kiche Maya Intellectuals, and the Theologia Indorum
Inbunden, 2020
1363 kr
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In Rewriting Maya Religion Garry Sparks examines the earliest religious documents composed by missionaries and native authors in the Americas, including a reconstruction of the first original, explicit Christian theology written in the Americas—the nearly 900-page Theologia Indorum (Theology for …
Reshaping the World
Debates on Mesoamerican Cosmologies
Av Ana Díaz
Häftad, 2020
523 kr
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Reshaping the World is a nuanced exploration of the plurality, complexity, and adaptability of Precolumbian and colonial-era Mesoamerican cosmological models and the ways in which anthropologists and historians have used colonial and indigenous texts to understand these models in the past. Since …
Geology, Ecology, and Human History of the San Luis Valley
Av Jared Maxwell Beeton, Charles Nicholas Saenz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1217 kr
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The Geology, Ecology, and Human History of the San Luis Valley explores the rich landscapes and diverse social histories of the San Luis Valley, an impressive mountain valley spanning over 9,000 square miles that crosses the border of south-central Colorado and north-central New Mexico and includes …
