Stone tool traditions in the contact era /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Indians of North America -- Implements. Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans. Indians of North America -- Antiquities. Stone implements -- North America. Antiquities. Indians of North America -- Antiquities. Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans. Indians of North America -- Implements. Stone implements. North America -- Antiquities. North America. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11196017

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Other authors / contributors:	Cobb, Charles R. (Charles Richard), 1956-
ISBN:	9780817381752 0817381759 0817313729 0817313737 9780817313722 9780817313739 0817313729 9780817313722
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-204) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Explores the impact of European colonization on Native American and Pacific Islander technology and culture. This is the first comprehensive analysis of the partial replacement of flaked stone and ground stone traditions by metal tools in the Americas during the Contact Era. It examines the functional, symbolic, and economic consequences of that replacement on the lifeways of native populations, even as lithic technologies persisted well after the landing of Columbus. Ranging across North America and to Hawaii, the studies show that, even with wide access to metal objects, Native Americans con.
Other form:	Print version: Stone tool traditions in the contact era. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2003 0817313729 9780817313722
Standard no.:	9780817313722

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Framing stone tool traditions after contact / Charles R. Cobb
Lithic technology and the Spanish Entrada at the King site in northwest Georgia / Charles R. Cobb and Dino A. Ruggiero
Wichita tools on the first contact with the French / George H. Odell
Chickasaw lithic technology: a reassessment / Jay K. Johnson
Tools of contact: a functional analysis of the Cameron site chipped-stone assemblage / Michael L. Carmody
Lithic artifacts in seventeenth-century native New England / Michael S. Nassaney and Michael Volmar
Stone Adze economies in post-contact Hawai'i / James M. Bayman
In all the solemnity of profound smoking: tobacco smoking and pipe manufacture and use among the Potawatomi of Illinois / Mark J. Wagner
Using a rock in a hard place: Native-American lithic practices in colonial California / Stephen Silliman
Flint and foxes: chert scrapers and the fur industry in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century north Alaska / Mark S. Cassell
Discussion / Douglas B. Bamforth.

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