Author: Ann Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781888400038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Archaeological Investigations at the Len-Caryl Ranch, Colorado
Author: Ann Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781888400038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781888400038
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Denver
Author: Sarah M. Nelson
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 0870819844
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A vivid account of the prehistory and history of Denver as revealed in its archaeological record, Denver: An Archaeological History invites us to imagine Denver as it once was. Around 12,000 B.C., groups of leather-clad Paleoindians passed through the juncture of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek, following the herds of mammoth or buffalo they hunted. In the Archaic period, people rested under the shade of trees along the riverbanks, with baskets full of plums as they waited for rabbits to be caught in their nearby snares. In the early Ceramic period, a group of mourners adorned with yellow pigment on their faces and beads of eagle bone followed Cherry Creek to the South Platte to attend a funeral at a neighboring village. And in 1858, the area was populated by the crude cottonwood log shacks with dirt floors and glassless windows, the homes of Denver's first inhabitants. For at least 10,000 years, Greater Denver has been a collection of diverse lifeways and survival strategies, a crossroads of interaction, and a locus of cultural coexistence. Setting the scene with detailed descriptions of the natural environment, summaries of prehistoric sites, and archaeologists' knowledge of Denver's early inhabitants, Nelson and her colleagues bring the region's history to life. From prehistory to the present, this is a compelling narrative of Denver's cultural heritage that will fascinate lay readers, amateur archaeologists, professional archaeologists, and academic historians alike.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 0870819844
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A vivid account of the prehistory and history of Denver as revealed in its archaeological record, Denver: An Archaeological History invites us to imagine Denver as it once was. Around 12,000 B.C., groups of leather-clad Paleoindians passed through the juncture of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek, following the herds of mammoth or buffalo they hunted. In the Archaic period, people rested under the shade of trees along the riverbanks, with baskets full of plums as they waited for rabbits to be caught in their nearby snares. In the early Ceramic period, a group of mourners adorned with yellow pigment on their faces and beads of eagle bone followed Cherry Creek to the South Platte to attend a funeral at a neighboring village. And in 1858, the area was populated by the crude cottonwood log shacks with dirt floors and glassless windows, the homes of Denver's first inhabitants. For at least 10,000 years, Greater Denver has been a collection of diverse lifeways and survival strategies, a crossroads of interaction, and a locus of cultural coexistence. Setting the scene with detailed descriptions of the natural environment, summaries of prehistoric sites, and archaeologists' knowledge of Denver's early inhabitants, Nelson and her colleagues bring the region's history to life. From prehistory to the present, this is a compelling narrative of Denver's cultural heritage that will fascinate lay readers, amateur archaeologists, professional archaeologists, and academic historians alike.
Southwestern Lore
Author: Clarence Thomas Hurst
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Archaeological Investigations of Sites 5DA438, 5DA450, 5DA451
Author: Douglas County (Colo.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Southwestern Lore
Author: Clarence Thomas Hurst
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Archaeological Investigations of Sites 5DA438, 5DA446, 5DA447, 5DA450, 5DA451, 5DA433, and 5DA510
Author: Douglas County (Colo.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Archeology of the High Plains
Author: James H. Gunnerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Archaeological Investigations at the Lopez Ranch (5LA2204) and Leef Ranch (5LA9853) Sites in Las Animas County, Colorado
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains
Author: Laura L. Scheiber
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains combines history, anthropology, archaeology, and geography to take a closer look at the relationships between land and people in this unique North American region. Focusing on long-term change, this book considers ethnographic literature, archaeological evidence, and environmental data spanning thousands of years of human presence to understand human perception and construction of landscape. The contributors offer cohesive and synthetic studies emphasizing hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers. Using landscape as both reality and metaphor, Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains explores the different and changing ways that people interacted with place in this transitional zone between the Rocky Mountains and the eastern prairies. The contemporary archaeologists working in this small area have chosen diverse approaches to understand the past and its relationship to the present. Through these ten case studies, this variety is highlighted but leads to a common theme - that the High Plains contains important locales to which people, over generations or millennia, return. Providing both data and theory on a region that has not previously received much attention from archaeologists, especially compared with other regions in North America, this volume is a welcome addition to the literature. Contributors: o Paul Burnett o Oskar Burger o Minette C. Church o Philip Duke o Kevin Gilmore o Eileen Johnson o Mark D. Mitchell o Michael R. Peterson o Lawrence Todd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains combines history, anthropology, archaeology, and geography to take a closer look at the relationships between land and people in this unique North American region. Focusing on long-term change, this book considers ethnographic literature, archaeological evidence, and environmental data spanning thousands of years of human presence to understand human perception and construction of landscape. The contributors offer cohesive and synthetic studies emphasizing hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers. Using landscape as both reality and metaphor, Archaeological Landscapes on the High Plains explores the different and changing ways that people interacted with place in this transitional zone between the Rocky Mountains and the eastern prairies. The contemporary archaeologists working in this small area have chosen diverse approaches to understand the past and its relationship to the present. Through these ten case studies, this variety is highlighted but leads to a common theme - that the High Plains contains important locales to which people, over generations or millennia, return. Providing both data and theory on a region that has not previously received much attention from archaeologists, especially compared with other regions in North America, this volume is a welcome addition to the literature. Contributors: o Paul Burnett o Oskar Burger o Minette C. Church o Philip Duke o Kevin Gilmore o Eileen Johnson o Mark D. Mitchell o Michael R. Peterson o Lawrence Todd
Archaeology of the High Plains
Author: James H. Gunnerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description