Twelve millennia [[electronic resource] ] : archaeology of the upper Mississippi River Valley / / James L. Theler and Robert F. Boszhardt
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Theler James L. <1946->
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| Titolo: |
Twelve millennia [[electronic resource] ] : archaeology of the upper Mississippi River Valley / / James L. Theler and Robert F. Boszhardt
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 977/.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Indians of North America - Mississippi River Valley - Antiquities |
| Mound-builders - Mississippi River Valley | |
| Excavations (Archaeology) - Mississippi River Valley | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mississippi River Valley Antiquities |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
BoszhardtRobert F
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Intro to Archaeology; 2 .Environment of the Upper Mississippi River Valley; 3. Past Climate of the Upper Mississippi River Valley; 4. A Brief History of Upper Mississippi River Valley Archaeology; 5. The First People; 6. The Archaic Tradition; 7. The First Revolution; 8. The Woodland Tradition; 9. The Beginning of Tribes; 10. The Second Revolution; 11. The Oneota Culture; 12. The End of Prehistory; Epilogue; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Recommended Readings; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Twelve millennia |
| ISBN: | 1-58729-439-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450813203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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