Ancient North America : the archaeology of a continent /

Ancient North America : the archaeology of a continent /

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Author / Creator:Fagan, Brian M.
Edition:Rev. and expanded ed.
Imprint:New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1995.
Description:528 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Paleo-Indians -- North America.
Indians of North America -- Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Indians of North America -- Antiquities.
Paleo-Indians.
North America -- Antiquities.
North America.
Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1759997
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ISBN:0500050759 (hardcover) : $45.00
0500278172 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 503]-517) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part 1. Background
  • Chapter 1. European Discovery
  • Norse Settlement in North America
  • The Search for a Strait
  • Raleigh's Virginia
  • Spanish Explorations in the Southeast
  • The Seven Lost Cities of Cibola
  • "A Young People, Younger a Thousand Years..."
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 2. Culture History and North American Archaeology
  • The First Excavation
  • The Myth of the Moundbuilders
  • First Descriptive Efforts
  • Cushing, Bandelier, and the Southwestern Pueblos
  • Franz Boas and "Historical Particularism"
  • The Birth of Culture History
  • Dating Ancient North America
  • Science and Archaeology
  • Method and Theory in American Archaeology
  • A Study of Archaeology
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 3. North American Archaeology Since the 1960s
  • Evolution, Cultural Ecology, and the Environment
  • Processual Archaeology
  • Ethnographic Analogy and Ethnoarchaeology
  • Post-Processual Archaeology
  • Cultural Resource Management
  • Archaeology and Native Americans
  • Intellectual Trends
  • Further Reading
  • Part 2. The Paleo-Indians
  • Chapter 4. First Settlement
  • Stone Age Foragers in Asia
  • Sinodonts and Amerinds
  • Beringia
  • The Younger Dryas
  • First Settlement of Alaska and the Yukon Territory
  • Ice-Free Corridors and Continental Shelves
  • The Case for Human Settlement Before 15,000 Years Ago
  • A Scenario for First Settlement After 15,000 Years Ago
  • Clovis Culture
  • Clovis and Megafaunal Extinctions
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 5. Later Paleo-Indian Cultures
  • After Clovis on the Plains
  • Post-Clovis Material Culture on the Plains
  • Culture Change on the Plains
  • Paleo-Indian Occupation in the West
  • Paleo-Indians in the Eastern Woodlands
  • Social Organization and Settlement Patterns
  • Further Reading
  • Part 3. The Great Plains
  • Chapter 6. Bison Hunters on the Plains
  • The Plains Environment and Climate Change
  • Holocene Environmental Change
  • Bison and Humans
  • Plains Archaic Traditions
  • Early Plains Archaic
  • Middle Plains Archaic
  • Late Plains Archaic on the Northwestern Plains
  • Bison Jumps
  • The Northeastern Plains Periphery
  • Later Bison Hunters
  • Protohistoric Period
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 7. Village Farmers of the Plains
  • Before the Farmers
  • The Plains Woodland Tradition
  • Plains Village Indians
  • Bundles, Chiefs, and Villages
  • Origins of Historic Groups: Caddoans and Siouans
  • Caddoan Speakers: Wichita and Pawnee
  • Middle Missouri Valley: Arikara, Mandan, Hidatsa
  • Nomads and Plains Farmers
  • Further Reading
  • Part 4. The Far North
  • Chapter 8. Early Arctic Cultures
  • The Arctic Environment
  • The Paleo-Arctic Tradition
  • Coastal Adaptations on the Pacific Coast
  • The Aleutian Tradition
  • Arctic Small Tool Tradition
  • First Settlement of the Eastern Arctic
  • Archaic Foragers in the Sub-Arctic
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 9. Norton, Dorset, and Thule
  • The Norton Tradition of the Western Arctic
  • The Thule Tradition
  • Thule Expansion in the West
  • The Dorset Tradition of the Eastern Arctic
  • Evolution of the Dorset Tradition
  • The Thule Expansion into the Eastern Arctic
  • Classic Thule
  • Postclassic Thule
  • European Contact
  • Further Reading
  • Part 5. The West
  • Chapter 10. Early Foragers on the West Coast
  • Environmental Diversity
  • Ancient Food Staples
  • First Settlement of the West Coast
  • Northwest Coast Early and Middle Periods
  • Northern California Early Archaic
  • Southern California Early Period
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 11. The Myth of the Garden of Eden: Later Societies of the West Coast
  • Complex Hunter-Gatherers
  • Emerging Cultural and Social Complexity on the Northwest Coast
  • Late Period: Links to Historic Peoples
  • The Interior Plateau
  • The California Coast: Diversification and Regional Specialization
  • Evolutionary Ecology and Optimal Foraging
  • Climate Change: The Medieval Warm Period
  • Culture History: Northern California
  • Culture History: San Francisco Bay and the Central Coast
  • Culture History: Southern California Coast
  • Complexity and Stress
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 12. The Great Basin and Western Interior
  • The Great Basin Environment
  • Conceptual Frameworks
  • Paleo-Indian
  • Early Desert Archaic in the Eastern and Northern Great Basin
  • Desert Archaic in the Western Great Basin and Interior California
  • The Fremont Culture and Great Basin Horticulture
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 13. The Archaic of the Southwest and Lower Pecos
  • Southwestern Peoples
  • The Southwestern Environment
  • The Basic Framework for Southwestern Archaeology
  • Paleo-Indian Tradition
  • Southwestern Archaic
  • Southwestern Archaic Traditions
  • A Population Movement and Climate Model
  • Foragers to the South and East
  • Historic Peoples
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 14. The Origins of Southwestern Agriculture and Village Life
  • Tending, Cultivation, and Plant Domestication
  • Theories of the Origins of Agriculture
  • The Origins of Southwestern Agriculture
  • Maize Agriculture
  • The Lower Sonoran Agricultural Complex
  • The Consequences of Southwestern Agriculture
  • The Beginnings of Village Life in the Southwest
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 15. Villages and Pueblos
  • The Chaco Phenomenon
  • Hohokam
  • Mesa Verde and Mimbres
  • Climate Change and Risk
  • Violence in Ancient Pueblo Life
  • Kachinas and Warriors
  • Casas Grandes
  • Further Reading
  • Part 6. The Eastern Woodlands
  • Chapter 16. Early and Middle Archaic Cultures in the Eastern Woodlands
  • Projectile Points and the Early Archaic
  • The Dalton Tradition
  • Icehouse Bottom and Early Archaic Subsistence
  • Corner-Notched and Bifurcate Traditions
  • The Meaning of Projectile-Point Sequences
  • Restricted Mobility: Early and Middle Archaic Koster
  • Riverine Adaptations in the Southeast
  • The Windover Site
  • The Issue of Sedentism
  • Identifying Sedentary Settlement
  • Burials and the Lands of the Ancestors
  • The Northeast: L'Anse Amour and Neville
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 17. Late Archaic Cultures in the Eastern Woodlands
  • The Issue of Population Growth
  • Population Growth and Sedentism
  • The Shield Late Archaic
  • The Maritime Tradition of the Northeast
  • Lake Forest Late Archaic
  • Mast Forest Late Archaic
  • Central Riverine Archaic
  • Exchange and Interaction
  • The Poverty Point Culture
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 18. Early Woodland and the Adena Complex
  • Pottery and the "Container Revolution"
  • Cultivation of Native Plants
  • Early Woodland: Burial Mounds and the Adena Complex
  • Inter-regional Exchange
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 19. Middle Woodland and the Hopewell
  • The Hopewell Culture
  • Origins
  • Hopewell Exchange Systems
  • Dispersed Homesteads and "Big Men"
  • Hopewell Exchange and Artifact Standardization
  • Hopewell Mortuary Customs
  • Interpreting Hopewell Earthworks
  • Symbolic Georgraphy
  • Woodland Adaptations in the Southeast
  • Mounds and "Big Men" in the Southeast
  • The Hopewell Decline
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 20. Mississippian Climax
  • The Weeden Island Culture
  • Defining the Mississippian
  • Subsistence
  • Chiefdoms
  • Mississippian Polities: Cahokia and Moundville
  • Complex Chiefdoms
  • Mississippian Cosmos: Fertility and Duality
  • Natchez, Coosa, and the 16th Century
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 21. Algonquians and Iroquoians
  • Algonquians and Iroquoians
  • Terminal Archaic
  • Woodland Societies in the Northeast
  • Northern Iroquoian Origins
  • Culture History
  • Middle Iroquoian
  • Late Iroquoian
  • Further Reading
  • Part 7. After Columbus
  • Chapter 22. The Archaeology of European Contact
  • Disease and Depopulation
  • The Onondaga of the Five Nations: Continuous Redefinition of Culture
  • The Archaeology of De Soto
  • Culture Change in the Southeastern Interior
  • Text-aided Research: The Archaeology of La Florida
  • Spanish Missions in the Southeast
  • Anglo-American Culture: Martin's Hundred and New England
  • The Black Experience and Archaeology
  • Ships and Shipwrecks
  • Mines and Miners
  • Eighteenth-Century Annapolis and the Archaeology of Gardens
  • Further Reading
  • Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index and Glossary

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