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



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Titolo: Stone tool traditions in the contact era [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Charles R. Cobb Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
Disciplina: 621.9/0089/97
Soggetto topico: Indians of North America - Implements
Indians of North America - First contact with Europeans
Indians of North America - Antiquities
Stone implements - North America
Soggetto geografico: North America Antiquities
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: CobbCharles R <1956-> (Charles Richard)  
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
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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
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ISBN: 0-8173-8175-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910453921503321
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