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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782142603321

Titolo

Stone tool traditions in the contact era [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Charles R. Cobb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8173-8175-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CobbCharles R <1956-> (Charles Richard)

Disciplina

621.9/0089/97

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Implements

Indians of North America - First contact with other peoples

Indians of North America - Antiquities

Stone implements - North America

North America Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-204) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; 1. Introduction: Framing Stone Tool Traditions after Contact; 2. Lithic Technology and the Spanish Entrada at the King Site in Northwest Georgia; 3. Wichita Tools on First Contact with the French; 4. Chickasaw Lithic Technology: A Reassessment; 5. Tools of Contact: A Functional Analysis of the Cameron Site Chipped-Stone Assemblage; 6. Lithic Artifacts in Seventeenth-Century Native New England; 7. Stone Adze Economies in Post-Contact Hawai'i

8. In All the Solemnity of Profound Smoking: Tobacco Smoking and Pipe Manufacture and Use among the Potawatomi of Illinois9. Using a Rock in a Hard Place: Native-American Lithic Practices in Colonial California; 10. Flint and Foxes: Chert Scrapers and the Fur Industry in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century North Alaska; 11. Discussion; References Cited; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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