Ancient North America : the archaeology of a continent /

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Author / Creator:Fagan, Brian M.
Edition:4th ed.
Imprint:New York : Thames & Hudson, c2005.
Description:568 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6695876
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ISBN:0500285322 (pbk.)
9780500285329 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [541]-557) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Background
  • Clash of cultures
  • Culture history and North American archaeology
  • North American archaeology since the 1960s
  • The Paleo-Indians
  • First settlement
  • Later Paleo-Indian cultures
  • The Great Plains
  • Bison hunters on the plains
  • Village farmers of the plains
  • The far North
  • Early Arctic cultures
  • Norton, Dorset and Thule
  • The West
  • Early foragers on the West Coast
  • The myth of the garden of Eden: later societies of the West Coast
  • The Great Basin and Western interior
  • The Archaic of the Southwest and Lower Pecos
  • The origins of Southwestern agriculture and village life
  • Villages and Pueblos
  • The Eastern Woodlands
  • Early and Middle Archaic cultures in the Eastern Woodlands
  • Middle to late Archaic cultures in the Eastern Woodlands
  • Early Woodland and the Adena Complex
  • Middle Woodland and the Hopewell
  • Mississippian climax
  • Algonquians and Iroquoians
  • After Columbus
  • The archaeology of European contact.