From the Pleistocene to the Holocene [[electronic resource] ] : human organization and cultural transformations in prehistoric North America / / edited by C. Britt Bousman and Bradley J. Vierra

• Pubblicazione: College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (822 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.2
• Soggetto topico: Antiquities, Prehistoric - North America; Human beings - Climatic factors - North America; Human ecology - North America; Hunting and gathering societies - North America; Indians of North America - Antiquities; Paleoecology - Holocene; Paleoecology - Pleistocene; Paleoecology - North America; Paleo-Indians - North America; Pleistocene-Holocene boundary
• Soggetto geografico: North America Antiquities Congresses
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BousmanC. Britt VierraBradley J
• Note generali: "Most chapters began as papers for a symposium on Paleoindian-Archaic transitions in North America, given at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Salt Lake City in 2005. Not all presenters submitted a chapter, so others were solicited to expand the geographic coverage of the volume."--Chapter 1.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chronology, environmental setting, and views of the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene cultural transitions in North America / C. Britt Bousman and Bradley J. Vierra -- Environmental change and archaeological transitions in early post-glacial Alaska / Michael R. Bever -- The Paleoindian to Archaic transition in the Pacific Northwest: in situ development or ethnic replacement? / James C. Chatters, Steven Hackenberger, Anna M. Prentiss, and Jayne-Leigh Thomas -- The Paleo-Archaic transition in western California / Jeffrey S. Rosenthal and Richard T. Fitzgerald -- The emergence of the desert Archaic in the Great Basin / George T. Jones and Charlotte Beck -- Paleoindian and Archaic traditions in Sonora, Mexico / Guadalupe Sanchez and John Carpenter -- The Paleoindian to Archaic transition: the Northwestern Plains and Central Rocky Mountains / Mary Lou Larson -- Ancient foragers of the Northern Rio Grande Valley / Bradley J. Vierra, Margaret A. Jodry, M. Steven Shackley, and Michael J. Dilley -- The Protoarchaic in Central Texas and surrounding areas / C. Britt Bousman and Eric Oksanen -- The Ozark Highland Paleoarchaic / Marvin Kay -- The transition from Paleoindian to Archaic in the Middle Tennessee Valley / Boyce N. Driskell, Scott C. Meeks, and Sarah C. Sherwood -- Shades of gray redux: the Paleoindian/Early Archaic "transition" in the Northeast / Kurt W. Carr and J. M. Adovasio.
• Sommario/riassunto: The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural shift that took place solely in the Americas. This event-which manifested in ways and at times much more varied than often supposed-set the stage for the unique developments of behavioral complexity that distinguish later Native American prehisto
• Titolo autorizzato: From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
• ISBN: 1-283-58442-5; 9786613896872; 1-60344-778-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463522903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Texas A&M University Anthropology Series