Author: Marcel Kornfeld
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Scattered throughout the Great Plains are many isolated areas of varying size and ecology, quite distinct from the surrounding grasslands. Such spaces can be uplands like the Black Hills, low hills like the Nebraska Sand Hills, or linear areas such as shallow river valleys and deeply incised canyons. While the notion of "islands" is not a new one among ecologists, its application in Plains archaeology is. The contributors to this volume seek to illustrate the different ways that the spatial, structural, and temporal nature of islands conditioned the behavior and adaptation of past Plains peoples. This as a first step toward a more detailed analysis of habitat variation and its effects on Plains cultural dynamics and evolution. Although the emphasis is on ecology, several chapters also address social and ideological islands in the form of sacred sites and special hunting grounds.
Islands on the Plains
Island in the Plains
Author: Edward Raventon
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555663261
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Islands in the Plains is required reading for anyone who wishes to learn the fascinating story behind the rugged exterior of the Black Hills.
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781555663261
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Islands in the Plains is required reading for anyone who wishes to learn the fascinating story behind the rugged exterior of the Black Hills.
Island in the Plains
Author: Matthew K. Bauman
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Category : Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Category : Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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New Geography
Author: Wallace Walter Atwood
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The New Primary Geography
Author: Samuel Augustus Mitchell
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Rising from the Plains
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374708509
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee continues his Annals of the Former World series about the geology of North America along the fortieth parallel with Rising from the Plains. This third volume presents another exciting geological excursion with an engaging account of life—past and present—in the high plains of Wyoming. Sometimes it is said of geologists that they reflect in their professional styles the sort of country in which they grew up. Nowhere could that be more true than in the life of a geologist born in the center of Wyoming and raised on an isolated ranch. This is the story of that ranch, soon after the turn of the twentieth century, and of David Love, the geologist who grew up there, at home with the composition of the high country in the way that someone growing up in a coastal harbor would be at home with the vagaries of the sea.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374708509
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee continues his Annals of the Former World series about the geology of North America along the fortieth parallel with Rising from the Plains. This third volume presents another exciting geological excursion with an engaging account of life—past and present—in the high plains of Wyoming. Sometimes it is said of geologists that they reflect in their professional styles the sort of country in which they grew up. Nowhere could that be more true than in the life of a geologist born in the center of Wyoming and raised on an isolated ranch. This is the story of that ranch, soon after the turn of the twentieth century, and of David Love, the geologist who grew up there, at home with the composition of the high country in the way that someone growing up in a coastal harbor would be at home with the vagaries of the sea.
The Indian Archipelago
Author: Horace Stebbing Roscoe St. John
Publisher:
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Category : Malay Archipelago
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Malay Archipelago
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Sandstone Depositional Environments
Author: Peter A. Scholle
Publisher: AAPG
ISBN: 0891813071
Category : Sandstone
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Publisher: AAPG
ISBN: 0891813071
Category : Sandstone
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The Philippine Islands
Author: Audley Robert Kennedy
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Hand book of physical geography
Author: Alexander Keith Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description