Archaeology of Native North America

By (author) Snow, Dean R.

<P><B>This comprehensive text is intended for the junior-senior level course in North American Archaeology. </B></P><P> </P><P>Written by accomplished scholar Dean Snow, this new text approaches native North America from the perspective of evolutionary ecology. Succinct, streamlined chapters present an extensive groundwork for supplementary material, or serve as a core text.The narrative covers all of Mesoamerica, and explicates the links between the part of North America covered by the United States and Canada and the portions covered by Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and the Greater Antilles. Additionally, book is extensively illustrated with the authorâ s own research and findings. </P>

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  • <P><B>Preface</B><B><BR></B></P><P><B>1.      Introduction </B>                 </P><P>Why it Matters                   </P><P>Archaeological Science                   </P><P>Coping with Incomplete Information                        </P><P>The Use and Misuse of Evidence                </P><P>Mistakes and Fakes                        </P><P>The Difference Between Biological and Cultural Evolution                </P><P>Basic Concepts for the Study of Cultural Evolution              </P><P>Ecological Approaches                   </P><P>North America and Human Potential                       </P><P>Geography and Basic Terms                       </P><P>The Special Place of Rock Art                    </P><P>Oral Tradition                     </P><P>Summary                </P><P>Further Reading     </P><B><P style="MARGIN: 0px">             </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">2.      Eurasian Origins  </B><P style="MARGIN: 0px">                      </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Introduction                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Evolution of Modern Humans               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Out of Africa                      </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Expansion of Modern Humans             </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Lines of Evidence from Living American Indians                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Crossing Beringia                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Traveling Companions                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Archaeological Traces in Siberia                 </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Swan Point             </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Nenana Complex                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The First Americans                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Summary                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Further Reading    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>3.      The Peopling of America      </B>                 </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Introduction                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Was Clovis Culture First?               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Dubious Claims for Pre-Clovis Sites                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">More Likely Claims for Pre-Clovis Sites                 </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Paleoindian Period                   </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Tracking Paleoindians from Beringia                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Nenana Complex Revisited                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Mesa Site                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Accommodating the Monte Verde Site                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Sites on the California Coast                       </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Clovis Culture                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Atlantic Alternative                   </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Great Extinction                       </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Paleoindian Skeletal Evidence                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The End of the Paleoindian Period               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Summary                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Further Reading         </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">         </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>4.      Archaic Adaptations   </B>              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Introduction                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Holocene Adaptations                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Roots of Domestication                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Luck of Good Location                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Humanizing Environments                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Palynology              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Humanized Forest                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Consequences for Human Adaptation                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Hallmarks in Stone              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Major Adaptive Trends in the Holocene                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Insights from Ethnography               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Managing Mobility              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Magic Number 500 and the Redefinition of Sharing                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Great Basin Laboratory                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Northeastern Archaic               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Other Archaic Cultures                   </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Evolving Technology                       </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Centers of Plant Domestication                   </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Summary                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Further Reading   </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>5.      The Moundbuilders      </B>             </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Environment of the Eastern Woodlands                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">First Impressions                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Roots of Mound Building in the Eastern Woodlands                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Adena Culture                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Hopewell Culture                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Later Burial Moundbuilders             </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Beginnings of Platform Mounds                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Summary                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Further Reading    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>6.      The Greater Southwest </B>            </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Introduction                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The First Farmers               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Language Families              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Regional Ecology                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Hohokam               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Mogollon                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Ancestral Pueblo                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Sinagua                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Patayan                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Contraction of Greater Southwest Cultures                   </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Later Ancestral Pueblo and Modern Descendants               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Arrival of the Athapaskans              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Summary                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Further Reading</P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>7.      Mesoamerican Civilization   </B>                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Introduction                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Mesoamerican Geography              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Consequences of Plant Domestication              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Mesoamerican Chronology             </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Olmecs                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Olmec Polities                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Olmec Centers                   </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Highland Mexico                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Cuicuilco                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Teotihuac�n                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Competing City-States                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Oaxaca                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Maya Civilization                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Major Maya City-States                 </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Maya Collapse                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Mesoamerican Ball Game                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Rest of Mesoamerica               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Summary                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Further Reading       </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">           </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>8.      Postclassic Mesoamerica  </B>                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Introduction                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Postclassic Period                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Toltecs                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Rise of the Aztecs                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Aztec Society and Empire               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Aztec Religion                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Tenochtitlan                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Aztec Calendar and Math               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Native Books                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Aztec Imperial Economy                      </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The End of Native Empires             </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Rest of Mexico                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Postclassic Maya                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Highland Central America               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Summary                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Further Reading     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">             </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>9.      The Mississippians </B>                   </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Introduction                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Mississippians and Mesoamericans             </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Rise of Maize Farming             </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Middle Mississippian                      </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">South Appalachian Mississippian                 </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Plaquemine Mississippian                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Caddoan Mississippian Societies                 </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Summary                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Further Reading                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>10.  The Northeastern Forests   </B>                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Introduction                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Rise of Farming Cultures in the Northern Woodlands                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Descendants of Hopewell                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Algonquian Expansion              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Wild Rice Gathering                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Algonquian Rock Art                      </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Later Eastern Algonqians                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Northern Iroquoians                       </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Formation of Confederacies                 </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Workings of the League of the Iroquois                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Demographic Change and Adaptation                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Central Algonquians and Siouans                      </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Other Northerners and Other Adjustments              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Epidemics and Depopulation                       </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Summary                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Further Reading    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>11.  The Gulf Rim  </B>              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Introduction                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Gulf Environment                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Early Mound Building                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Troyville-Coles Creek Culture                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Weeden Island, Fort Walton, and Safety Harbor Cultures               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Southern Florida                 </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Northern Gulf Coast                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Antilles                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Mexican Gulf Coast                 </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Summary                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Further Reading    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>12.  The Interior West     </B>                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Introduction                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Great Plains                 </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Northern Plains Hunter-Gatherers               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Southern Plains Hunter-Gatherers               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Plains Woodland Cultures               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Plains Village Cultures                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Great Basin                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Plateau                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Horse Nomads                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Summary                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Further Reading      </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">            </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>13.  The West Coast    </B>                   </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Introduction                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Northwest Coast                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Historic Northwest Coast Cultures              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Roots of Northwest Coast Culture                   </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Southern Northwest Coast              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">California                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Man Called Ishi                       </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Baja California                    </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Summary                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Further Reading      </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">            </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>14.  The Arctic and Subarctic </B>                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Arctic Environment                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Arctic Stage 1: The Earliest Evidence                      </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Arctic Stage 2: Finding Solutions                 </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Arctic Stage 3: The Arctic Small Tool Tradition                   </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Arctic Stage 4: Kachemak, Choris, Norton, Ipiutak, Dorset, and Old Bering Sea     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Arctic Stage 5: Thule Culture                      </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Norse              </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Subarctic                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Summary                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Further Reading   </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>15.  Worlds in Collision </B>                  </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Introduction                        </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Columbian Exchange                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">American Indian Populations                       </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Development of Archaeology               </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Rise of Professional Archaeology                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Archaeology and American Indians             </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act                     </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Conclusion             </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Summary                </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px">Further Reading           <BR></P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><BR></P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Index  </B>           </P><P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P>

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書名 Archaeology of Native North America
著作者等 Snow, Dean R.
出版元 Pearson
刊行年月 2009.09.29
ページ数 408p
大きさ H254 x W203
ISBN 9780136156864
言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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