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Dam projects and the growth of American archaeology : the River Basin Survey and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program / / editors, Kimball M. Banks, Jon S. Czaplicki
Dam projects and the growth of American archaeology : the River Basin Survey and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program / / editors, Kimball M. Banks, Jon S. Czaplicki
Pubbl/distr/stampa London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (319 p.)
Disciplina 973
Altri autori (Persone) BanksKimball M
CzaplickiJon S
Soggetto topico Archaeology - United States - History - 20th century
Salvage archaeology - United States - History - 20th century
Archaeological surveying - United States - History - 20th century
Archaeology and state - United States - History - 20th century
Historic preservation - United States - History - 20th century
ISBN 1-315-43072-X
1-315-43073-8
1-61132-176-X
Classificazione SOC003000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: The Flood Control Act of 1944 and the Growth of American Archaeology - Kimball M. Banks and Jon S. Czaplicki; Part I: The National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution; 2. The National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution: Partners in Salvage Archaeology - Thomas D. Thiessen, Deborah Hull-Walski, and Lynn M. Snyder; Part II: The RBS and IASP Programs; 3. The Lincoln Office and the Upper Missouri River Basin - W. Raymond Wood
4. Archaeological ""Appraisals"" of Twenty Stream Basins in California: Investigations by the Smithsonian Institution's River Basin Surveys, 1947-1951 - Michael J. Moratto and Francis A. Riddell5. The River Basin Surveys in the Columbia Plateau - R. Lee Lyman; 6. Archaeological Salvage at Texas Reservoir Contruction Projects: 1945-1969 - Edward B. Jelks; 7. Federal Archaeology in the Southeast - Richard A. Krause; 8. Contributions of the Washington Office to the Archaeology of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions - Susan C. Prezzano
9. Upper Colorado River Archaeological Salvage Projects - Don D. FowlerPart III: The RBS and IASP Impacts on American Archaeology; 10. Contributions to Physical Anthropology by the Smithsonian Institution's River Basin Surveys - Vanessa A. Mirro; 11. Missouri Basin Projects and the Emergence of Historical Archaeology on the Great Plains - William B. Lees; 12. Paleontological Significance of the Missouri River Basin Surveys - John W. Hoganson; 13. Women in Reservoir Salvage Archaeology - Ruthann Knudson; 14. The Missouri River: The Backbone to Survival - Gerard Baker - Yellow Wolf
15. Flapping Tents, Outhouses, Hail Storms, and Running for Water: An Insider's View of the Life in Interagency Archeological Salvage Program Field Camps, 1950's-1970s - David Mayer Gradwohl16. From RBS to CRM: Late Twentieth-Century Developments in American Archaeology - Francis P. McManamon; References; Index; About the Authors
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
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The great Maya droughts in cultural context : case studies in resilience and vulnerability / / edited by Gyles Iannone
The great Maya droughts in cultural context : case studies in resilience and vulnerability / / edited by Gyles Iannone
Pubbl/distr/stampa Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (489 p.)
Disciplina 972.8/01
Soggetto topico Mayas - History
Mayas - Social conditions
Mayas - Antiquities
Droughts - Central America - History
Indigenous peoples - Ecology - Central America
Human beings - Effect of climate on - Central America
Crops - Effect of drougt on - Central America
Environmental archaeology - Central America
Social archaeology - Central America
ISBN 1-4920-1325-0
1-60732-280-3
Classificazione SOC003000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Contributors""; ""1: Introduction""; ""2: The Dynamics of Ancient Maya Developmental History""; ""3: Assessing the Great Maya Droughts""; ""4: Agricultural Landscapes, Deforestation, and Drought Severity""; ""5: Climate Change in the Ancient Maya Forest""; ""6: The End of the Beginning""; ""7: A Tale of Three Cities""; ""8: Collapse without Drought""; ""9: The Classic Maya Collapse, Water, and Economic Change in Mesoamerica""; ""10: Water in the West""; ""11: Oxygen Isotopes from Maya Archaeological Deer Remains""
""12: The Prehistoric Maya of Northern Belize""""13: An Archaeological Consideration of Long-Term Socioecological Dynamics on the Vaca Plateau, Belize""; ""14: Tracking Climate Change in the Ancient Maya World through Zooarchaeological Habitat Analyses""; ""15: Maya Drought and Niche Inheritance""; ""References""; ""Index""
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Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2014
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The great Maya droughts in cultural context : case studies in resilience and vulnerability / / edited by Gyles Iannone
The great Maya droughts in cultural context : case studies in resilience and vulnerability / / edited by Gyles Iannone
Pubbl/distr/stampa Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (489 p.)
Disciplina 972.8/01
Soggetto topico Mayas - History
Mayas - Social conditions
Mayas - Antiquities
Droughts - Central America - History
Indigenous peoples - Ecology - Central America
Human beings - Effect of climate on - Central America
Crops - Effect of drougt on - Central America
Environmental archaeology - Central America
Social archaeology - Central America
ISBN 1-4920-1325-0
1-60732-280-3
Classificazione SOC003000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Contributors""; ""1: Introduction""; ""2: The Dynamics of Ancient Maya Developmental History""; ""3: Assessing the Great Maya Droughts""; ""4: Agricultural Landscapes, Deforestation, and Drought Severity""; ""5: Climate Change in the Ancient Maya Forest""; ""6: The End of the Beginning""; ""7: A Tale of Three Cities""; ""8: Collapse without Drought""; ""9: The Classic Maya Collapse, Water, and Economic Change in Mesoamerica""; ""10: Water in the West""; ""11: Oxygen Isotopes from Maya Archaeological Deer Remains""
""12: The Prehistoric Maya of Northern Belize""""13: An Archaeological Consideration of Long-Term Socioecological Dynamics on the Vaca Plateau, Belize""; ""14: Tracking Climate Change in the Ancient Maya World through Zooarchaeological Habitat Analyses""; ""15: Maya Drought and Niche Inheritance""; ""References""; ""Index""
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Boulder, Colorado : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2014
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Human mobility and technological transfer in the prehistoric Mediterranean / / edited by Evangelia Kiriatzi, Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens, Carl Knappett, University of Toronto [[electronic resource]]
Human mobility and technological transfer in the prehistoric Mediterranean / / edited by Evangelia Kiriatzi, Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens, Carl Knappett, University of Toronto [[electronic resource]]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xvii, 278 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 937
Collana British School at Athens studies in Greek antiquity
Soggetto topico Prehistoric peoples - Mediterranean Region
Human beings - Mediterranean Region - Migrations - History
Migration, Internal - Mediterranean Region - History
Technology transfer - Mediterranean Region - History
Material culture - Mediterranean Region - History
Regionalism - Mediterranean Region - History
Social archaeology - Mediterranean Region
ISBN 1-316-79865-8
1-316-79919-0
1-316-79928-X
1-316-50904-4
1-316-53606-8
1-316-79937-9
1-316-79946-8
1-316-79973-5
Classificazione SOC003000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1. Technological mobilities : perspectives from the eastern Mediterranean--an introduction / C. Knappett and E. Kiriatzi -- 2. The transmitting sea : a Mediterranean perspective / C. Broodbank -- 3. Changing pottery technology in the later Neolithic in Macedonia, North Greece / D. Urem-Kotsou -- 4. Mobility and Early Bronze Age Aegean metal production / M. Georgakopoulou -- 5. Stonemasons and craft mobility in the Bronze Age eastern Mediterranean / A. Bevan and E. Bloxam -- 6. Towards an understanding of the origin of Late Bronze Age Greek glass / A.J. Shortland -- 7. Mobilities in the Neopalatial southern Aegean : the case of Minoanisation / I. Nikolakopoulou and C. Knappett -- 8. The archaeological signatures of mobility : a technological look at "Aegeanising" pottery from the northern Levant at the end of the second millennium BCE / M.-C. Boileau -- 9. Mycenaean and Mycenaeanising pottery across the Mediterranean : a multi-scalar approach to technological mobility, transmission and appropriation / E. Kiriatzi and S. Andreou -- 10. Interpreting Bronze Age trade and migration / K. Kristiansen -- 11. Commentary: States and technological mobility : a view from the West / E. Blake -- 12. Commentary: On fluxes, connections, and their archaeological manifestations / O.P. Gosselain.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910158981903321
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016
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Iconographic method in new world prehistory / / Vernon James Knight, Jr [[electronic resource]]
Iconographic method in new world prehistory / / Vernon James Knight, Jr [[electronic resource]]
Autore Knight Vernon J.
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (vii, 201 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 700.93
Soggetto topico Indian art - America
Art, Prehistoric - America
Archaeology and art - America - Methodology
Social archaeology - America - Methodology
ISBN 1-139-85409-7
1-107-23593-6
1-139-84027-4
1-139-13691-7
1-139-84592-6
1-139-84501-2
1-139-84265-X
1-283-83625-4
1-139-84146-7
Classificazione SOC003000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preliminaries: an iconography of prehistoric images -- Style -- Form and referent -- Configurational analysis -- Ethnographic analogy -- The logic of iconographic method in prehistory.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910779331903321
Knight Vernon J.  
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
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Iconographic method in new world prehistory / / Vernon James Knight, Jr [[electronic resource]]
Iconographic method in new world prehistory / / Vernon James Knight, Jr [[electronic resource]]
Autore Knight Vernon J.
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (vii, 201 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 700.93
Soggetto topico Indian art - America
Art, Prehistoric - America
Archaeology and art - America - Methodology
Social archaeology - America - Methodology
ISBN 1-139-85409-7
1-107-23593-6
1-139-84027-4
1-139-13691-7
1-139-84592-6
1-139-84501-2
1-139-84265-X
1-283-83625-4
1-139-84146-7
Classificazione SOC003000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Preliminaries: an iconography of prehistoric images -- Style -- Form and referent -- Configurational analysis -- Ethnographic analogy -- The logic of iconographic method in prehistory.
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Knight Vernon J.  
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
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The Incas / / Terence N. D'Altroy ; Nicki Averill, cover design
The Incas / / Terence N. D'Altroy ; Nicki Averill, cover design
Autore D'Altroy Terence N.
Edizione [Second edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (567 p.)
Disciplina 985/.019
Collana The Peoples of America
Soggetto topico Incas - History
Incas - Social life and customs
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-118-61059-8
1-118-61060-1
Classificazione SOC003000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Chapter 1 Introduction; Investigating Empires; Studying the Incas; The Written Sources; Eyewitnesses to the Spanish Invasion; The Major Sixteenth-Century Spanish Authors; Authors with Andean Ancestry; The Later Spanish Chroniclers; Spanish Inspections, Church Documents, and Court Records; Inca Archaeology; 1860-1960; 1960-2010; Notes; Chapter 2 The Land and Its People; The Natural Setting; The Andes; Climate; Environmental Zones; Traditional Land Use Today; Farming; Herding
Human Physiology in the Andean Environment Predecessors; Languages; Time Frames; Notes; Chapter 3 The Incas before the Empire; Setting the Stage; Narrative Origins; The Early Reigns; The Origins of "Cuzco"; The Archaeological Picture; A Sketch of Pre-Imperial Inca Society; Notes; Chapter 4 The History of the Empire: Narrative Visions; Expansionist Designs and the Crisis in Cuzco; The Chanka Wars; The Major Expansions: Pachakuti and Thupa Inka Yupanki; Expeditions Southward; The Peruvian Sierra and Coast; Advances into Ecuador; More Ventures onto the Peruvian Coast
Further Ventures into the Eastern Lowlands Rebellion in the Altiplano; Advances into Argentina and Chile; Consolidation of the Empire: Wayna Qhapaq; Dynastic War: Waskhar and Atawallpa; Explaining the Inca Expansion; Notes; Chapter 5 Thinking Inca; Part I: Framing the Questions; What Was the Inca Canon?; The Nature and Basis of Knowledge; Some Fundamentals; Vitality; Kinship and Sexuality; Motion; Space-Time; Language and Knowledge; Part II: Existence; Vitality; (Space-)Time; Objects, Things, and Stuff; Part III: Numerical Thinking (Not Just Accounting or Arithmetic)
Information Recording and Communication: A Problem and Its Knotty Solution How Did the Khipu Work? Figuring It Out; Information Recorded on the Khipu; Was the Khipu an Instrument of Writing?; How Did the Khipu Work? Today's Theories; Making Calculations; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 6 The Politics of Blood in Cuzco; Tawantinsuyu: The Four Parts Together; Cuzco's Political Organization; The Ruler: Sapa Inca ("Unique Inca"); The High Priest (Willaq Umu); The Royal and Aristocratic Kindred; Royal Alliances: Political Marriages and the Power of the Queen
Succession Crises and the Shaping of Political History Note; Chapter 7 The Heartland of the Empire; The Setting and Urban Plan; The Central Plazas; The Major Architecture; Temples; Saqsawaman; Other Features; Greater Cuzco; Royal and Aristocratic Estates; Royal Coca Estates; Summary; Notes; Chapter 8 Inca Ideology: Powers of the Sky and Earth, Past and Present; Origins of the Cosmos and Humanity; The Inca Pantheon; Wiraqocha, the Creator; Inti, the Sun; Mama-Quilla, "Mother Moon"; Inti-Illapa, the Thunder God; Other Important Deities; Calendrics and Astronomical Observations
Solar and Lunar Calendrics
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D'Altroy Terence N.  
Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014
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An introduction to the archaeology of Ancient Egypt / / Kathryn A. Bard
An introduction to the archaeology of Ancient Egypt / / Kathryn A. Bard
Autore Bard Kathryn A.
Edizione [Second edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (1185 p.)
Disciplina 932
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 1-118-89603-3
1-118-89611-4
Classificazione SOC003000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Cover; Dedication; Title page; Copyright page; List of Plates; List of Figures; List of Maps; Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Egyptian Archaeology; 1.1 Introduction: Ancient Egyptian Civilization and Its Prehistoric Predecessors; 1.2 Egyptian Archaeology; 1.3 Egyptology; 1.4 History of Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology; 1.5 Archaeological Methods; 1.6 Archaeological Theory; 1.7 Ancient Egypt and Egyptian Archaeologists in Fiction and Films; Chapter 2: Hieroglyphs, Language, and Pharaonic Chronology; 2.1 Language of the Ancient Egyptians
2.2 Origins and Development of Egyptian Writing2.3 Scripts and Media of Writing; 2.4 Signs, Structure, and Grammar; 2.5 Literacy in Ancient Egypt; 2.6 Textual Studies; 2.7 Use of Texts in Egyptian Archaeology; 2.8 Historical Outline of Pharaonic Egypt; 2.9 The Egyptian Civil Calendar, King Lists, and Calculation of Pharaonic Chronology; Chapter 3: The Environmental Background to Pharaonic Civilization; 3.1 Geography: Terms and Place Names; 3.2 Environmental Setting; 3.3 Environmental and Other Problems for Archaeology in Egypt; 3.4 The Seasons and the Agricultural System
3.5 The Ancient Egyptian Diet3.6 Other Useful Animals and Plants; 3.7 Building Materials; 3.8 Other Resources: Clays, Stones, Minerals; 3.9 Imported Materials; Chapter 4: Egyptian Prehistory; Paleolithic; 4.1 Paleolithic Cultures in Egypt; 4.2 Lower Paleolithic; 4.3 Middle Paleolithic; 4.4 Upper Paleolithic; 4.5 Late Paleolithic; 4.6 Epipaleolithic (Final Paleolithic); Neolithic; 4.7 Saharan Neolithic; 4.8 Neolithic in the Nile Valley: Faiyum A and Lower Egypt; 4.9 Neolithic in the Nile Valley: Middle and Upper Egypt; Chapter 5: The Rise of Complex Society and Early Civilization
Predynastic Egypt5.1 The Predynastic Period: Egypt in the Fourth Millennium BC; 5.2 Lower Egypt: Predynastic Culture; 5.3 Upper Egypt: Naqada Culture; 5.4 Lower Nubia: A-Group Culture; 5.5 State Formation and Unification; The Early Dynastic State; 5.6 Organization and Institutions of the Early Dynastic State; 5.7 Early Writing and Formal Art; 5.8 The Expanding State; 5.9 Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? Physical Anthropology; Chapter 6: The Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period; 6.1 The Old Kingdom: Overview; The Early Old Kingdom; 6.2 The 3rd Dynasty: Djoser's Step Pyramid at Saqqara
6.3 The 4th Dynasty's First King, Sneferu, and His Three Pyramids6.4 Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza; 6.5 The Great Sphinx and Khafra's Pyramid Complex; 6.6 Menkaura's Giza Pyramid and Its Remarkable Valley Temple Finds; 6.7 Giza Pyramid Towns; 6.8 Giza Mastabas, Queen Hetepheres's Hidden "Tomb," and the Workmen's Cemetery; The Later Old Kingdom; 6.9 Sun Temples of the 5th Dynasty; 6.10 Later Old Kingdom Pyramids and the Pyramid Texts; 6.11 An Expanding Bureaucracy: Private Tombs in the 5th and 6th Dynasties; 6.12 Egypt Abroad; The First Intermediate Period
6.13 The End of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period: Causes of State Collapse
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Bard Kathryn A.  
Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015
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The lifeways of hunter-gatherers : the foraging spectrum / / Robert L. Kelly [[electronic resource]]
The lifeways of hunter-gatherers : the foraging spectrum / / Robert L. Kelly [[electronic resource]]
Autore Kelly Robert L. <1957->
Edizione [2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xix, 362 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 306.3/64
Altri autori (Persone) KellyRobert L. <1957->
Soggetto topico Hunting and gathering societies
ISBN 1-107-35759-4
1-107-23624-X
1-107-25553-8
1-107-34172-8
1-107-34797-1
1-139-17613-7
1-107-34547-2
1-299-40894-X
1-107-34422-0
Classificazione SOC003000
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: 1. Hunter-gatherers and anthropology; 2. Environment, evolution, and anthropological theory; 3. Foraging and subsistence; 4. Mobility; 5. Technology; 6. Sharing, exchange, and land tenure; 7. Group size and demography; 8. Men, women, and foraging; 9. Nonegalitarian hunter-gatherers; 10. Hunter-gatherers and prehistory.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910779700303321
Kelly Robert L. <1957->  
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The lifeways of hunter-gatherers : the foraging spectrum / / Robert L. Kelly [[electronic resource]]
The lifeways of hunter-gatherers : the foraging spectrum / / Robert L. Kelly [[electronic resource]]
Autore Kelly Robert L. <1957->
Edizione [2nd ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xix, 362 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina 306.3/64
Altri autori (Persone) KellyRobert L. <1957->
Soggetto topico Hunting and gathering societies
ISBN 1-107-35759-4
1-107-23624-X
1-107-25553-8
1-107-34172-8
1-107-34797-1
1-139-17613-7
1-107-34547-2
1-299-40894-X
1-107-34422-0
Classificazione SOC003000
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Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Machine generated contents note: 1. Hunter-gatherers and anthropology; 2. Environment, evolution, and anthropological theory; 3. Foraging and subsistence; 4. Mobility; 5. Technology; 6. Sharing, exchange, and land tenure; 7. Group size and demography; 8. Men, women, and foraging; 9. Nonegalitarian hunter-gatherers; 10. Hunter-gatherers and prehistory.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910813429803321
Kelly Robert L. <1957->  
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
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