The Archaeology of Ancient North America

ISBN-13: 9780521746274 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 512 str.

Kenneth E. (University of Florida) Sassaman

Opis

Unlike extant texts, this textbook treats pre-Columbian Native Americans as history makers who yet matter in our contemporary world.

Spis treści

1. Envisioning North America; 2. A social history of North American archaeologists and Native Americans; 3. Contact, colonialism, and convergence; 4. Ancient immigrants; 5. Sea change, see change; 6. Gender, kinship, and the commune: the Great Basin and greater Western Archaic; 7. Identity, ethnicity, and inequality: Holocene hunter-gatherers east of the Mississippi; 8. Animism, shamanism, and technology: life in the Arctic; 9. Building mounds, communities, histories; 10. The momentous late Woodland-Mississippian millennium; 11. Two worlds on the Great Plains; 12. The final centuries of the Northeast; 13. Divergence in the Far West; 14. Order and chaos in the Southwest: the Hohokam and Puebloan worlds; 15. Pots, peripheries, and Paquimé: the Southwest inside out; 16. 1984 BCE.