Author: George F. MacDonald
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772824275
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
An incisive report on test excavations conducted by archaeologists at the Kitwanga Fort site in British Columbia. Evidence from the excavations, analysis of artifacts and archaeological testing of the legendary accounts of the warrior chief, Nekt, constitute an enlightening study of a historical site, rich in oral tradition.
Kitwanga Fort report
Author: George F. MacDonald
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772824275
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
An incisive report on test excavations conducted by archaeologists at the Kitwanga Fort site in British Columbia. Evidence from the excavations, analysis of artifacts and archaeological testing of the legendary accounts of the warrior chief, Nekt, constitute an enlightening study of a historical site, rich in oral tradition.
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772824275
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
An incisive report on test excavations conducted by archaeologists at the Kitwanga Fort site in British Columbia. Evidence from the excavations, analysis of artifacts and archaeological testing of the legendary accounts of the warrior chief, Nekt, constitute an enlightening study of a historical site, rich in oral tradition.
Greenville Burial Ground
Author: Jerome S. Cybulski
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772821381
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Fifty-seven human skeletons, along with more than 200 artifacts and nearly 20,000 non-human bones, provide insight into mortuary practices, human biology, palaeopathology, and demography for the sixth through thirteenth centuries A.D. These findings are analysed in the context of 5,000 years of British Columbian coastal Native history.
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772821381
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Fifty-seven human skeletons, along with more than 200 artifacts and nearly 20,000 non-human bones, provide insight into mortuary practices, human biology, palaeopathology, and demography for the sixth through thirteenth centuries A.D. These findings are analysed in the context of 5,000 years of British Columbian coastal Native history.
Perspectives on Northern Northwest Coast Prehistory
Author: Jerome S. Cybulski
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772821543
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Thirteen scientists provide insight into the archaeology of the north coast of British Columbia in celebration of fieldwork begun by George F. MacDonald for the National Museum of Canada in 1966. This book investigates paleoenvironmental influences on human settlement, theoretical concepts involved in northern Northwest Coast research, and the interplay of aboriginal oral traditions and archaeological findings.
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772821543
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Thirteen scientists provide insight into the archaeology of the north coast of British Columbia in celebration of fieldwork begun by George F. MacDonald for the National Museum of Canada in 1966. This book investigates paleoenvironmental influences on human settlement, theoretical concepts involved in northern Northwest Coast research, and the interplay of aboriginal oral traditions and archaeological findings.
Becoming British Columbia
Author: John Belshaw
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Becoming British Columbia is the first comprehensive, demographic history of British Columbia. Investigating critical moments in the demographic record and linking demographic patterns to larger social and political questions, it shows how biology, politics, and history conspired with sex, death, and migration to create a particular kind of society. John Belshaw overturns the widespread tendency to associate population growth with progress. He reveals that the province has a long tradition of thinking and acting vigorously in ways meant to control and shape biological communities of humans, and suggests that imperialism, race, class, and gender have historically situated population issues at the centre of public consciousness in British Columbia.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774858699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Becoming British Columbia is the first comprehensive, demographic history of British Columbia. Investigating critical moments in the demographic record and linking demographic patterns to larger social and political questions, it shows how biology, politics, and history conspired with sex, death, and migration to create a particular kind of society. John Belshaw overturns the widespread tendency to associate population growth with progress. He reveals that the province has a long tradition of thinking and acting vigorously in ways meant to control and shape biological communities of humans, and suggests that imperialism, race, class, and gender have historically situated population issues at the centre of public consciousness in British Columbia.
Sustainable Fisheries Management
Author: E. Eric Knudsen
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429526369
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
What has happened to the salmon resource in the Pacific Northwest? Who is responsible and what can be done to reverse the decline in salmon populations? The responsibly falls on everyone involved - fishermen, resource managers and concerned citizens alike - to take the steps necessary to ensure that salmon populations make a full recovery. T
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429526369
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
What has happened to the salmon resource in the Pacific Northwest? Who is responsible and what can be done to reverse the decline in salmon populations? The responsibly falls on everyone involved - fishermen, resource managers and concerned citizens alike - to take the steps necessary to ensure that salmon populations make a full recovery. T
Politics and Government in Germany, 1944-1994
Author: C. C. Schweitzer
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782388591
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This revised and enlarged edition brings the successful original volume of 1984 right up to date, taking into account the most recent developments. Each section begins with an introduction that provides the context for the following documents. There is no comparable volume of its kind available in English, and most documents have not previously been translated.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782388591
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This revised and enlarged edition brings the successful original volume of 1984 right up to date, taking into account the most recent developments. Each section begins with an introduction that provides the context for the following documents. There is no comparable volume of its kind available in English, and most documents have not previously been translated.
Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World
Author: Megan Biesele
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782381589
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
In an age of heightened awareness of the threat that western industrialized societies pose to the environment, hunters and gatherers attract particularly strong interest because they occupy the ecological niches that are constantly eroded. Despite the denial of sovereignty, the world's more than 350 million indigenous peoples continue to assert aboriginal title to significant portions of the world's remaining bio-diversity. As a result, conflicts between tribal peoples and nation states are on the increase. Today, many of the societies that gave the field of anthropology its empirical foundations and unique global vision of a diverse and evolving humanity are being destroyed as a result of national economic, political, and military policies. Although quite a sizable body of literature exists on the living conditions of the hunters and gatherers, this volume is unique in that it represents the first extensive east-west scholarly exchange in anthropology since the demise of the USSR. Moreover, it also offers new perspectives from indigenous communities and scholars in an exchange that be termed "south-north" as opposed to " north-north," denoting the predominance of northern Europe and North America in scholarly debate. The main focus of this volume is on the internal dynamics and political strategies of hunting and gathering societies in areas of self-determination and self-representation. More specifically, it examines areas such as warfare and conflict resolution, resistance, identity and the state, demography and ecology, gender and representation, and world view and religion. It raises a large number of major issues of common concerns and therefore makes important reading for all those interested in human rights issues, ethnic conflict, grassroots development and community organization, and environmental topics.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782381589
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
In an age of heightened awareness of the threat that western industrialized societies pose to the environment, hunters and gatherers attract particularly strong interest because they occupy the ecological niches that are constantly eroded. Despite the denial of sovereignty, the world's more than 350 million indigenous peoples continue to assert aboriginal title to significant portions of the world's remaining bio-diversity. As a result, conflicts between tribal peoples and nation states are on the increase. Today, many of the societies that gave the field of anthropology its empirical foundations and unique global vision of a diverse and evolving humanity are being destroyed as a result of national economic, political, and military policies. Although quite a sizable body of literature exists on the living conditions of the hunters and gatherers, this volume is unique in that it represents the first extensive east-west scholarly exchange in anthropology since the demise of the USSR. Moreover, it also offers new perspectives from indigenous communities and scholars in an exchange that be termed "south-north" as opposed to " north-north," denoting the predominance of northern Europe and North America in scholarly debate. The main focus of this volume is on the internal dynamics and political strategies of hunting and gathering societies in areas of self-determination and self-representation. More specifically, it examines areas such as warfare and conflict resolution, resistance, identity and the state, demography and ecology, gender and representation, and world view and religion. It raises a large number of major issues of common concerns and therefore makes important reading for all those interested in human rights issues, ethnic conflict, grassroots development and community organization, and environmental topics.
Ublasaun
Author: United States. National Park Service. Alaska System Support Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Official government publication contains essays and photographs describing the people and their environment in Alaska's Seward Peninsula. Also tells the story of the Bering Land Bridge, which once connected Asia and North America.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Official government publication contains essays and photographs describing the people and their environment in Alaska's Seward Peninsula. Also tells the story of the Bering Land Bridge, which once connected Asia and North America.
The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Human Conflict
Author: Christopher Knüsel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134677979
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
If human burials were our only window onto the past, what story would they tell? Skeletal injuries constitute the most direct and unambiguous evidence for violence in the past. Whereas weapons or defenses may simply be statements of prestige or status and written sources are characteristically biased and incomplete, human remains offer clear and unequivocal evidence of physical aggression reaching as far back as we have burials to examine. Warfare is often described as ‘senseless’ and as having no place in society. Consequently, its place in social relations and societal change remains obscure. The studies in The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Human Conflict present an overview of the nature and development of human conflict from prehistory to recent times as evidenced by the remains of past people themselves in order to explore the social contexts in which such injuries were inflicted. A broadly chronological approach is taken from prehistory through to recent conflicts, however this book is not simply a catalogue of injuries illustrating weapon development or a narrative detailing ‘progress’ in warfare but rather provides a framework in which to explore both continuity and change based on a range of important themes which hold continuing relevance throughout human development.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134677979
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
If human burials were our only window onto the past, what story would they tell? Skeletal injuries constitute the most direct and unambiguous evidence for violence in the past. Whereas weapons or defenses may simply be statements of prestige or status and written sources are characteristically biased and incomplete, human remains offer clear and unequivocal evidence of physical aggression reaching as far back as we have burials to examine. Warfare is often described as ‘senseless’ and as having no place in society. Consequently, its place in social relations and societal change remains obscure. The studies in The Routledge Handbook of the Bioarchaeology of Human Conflict present an overview of the nature and development of human conflict from prehistory to recent times as evidenced by the remains of past people themselves in order to explore the social contexts in which such injuries were inflicted. A broadly chronological approach is taken from prehistory through to recent conflicts, however this book is not simply a catalogue of injuries illustrating weapon development or a narrative detailing ‘progress’ in warfare but rather provides a framework in which to explore both continuity and change based on a range of important themes which hold continuing relevance throughout human development.
Troubled Times
Author: David W. Frayer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134385307
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Evidence amassed in Troubled Times indicates that, much like in the modern world, violence was not an uncommon aspect of prehistoric dispute resolution. From the civilizations of the American Southwest to the Mesolithic of Central Europe, the contributors examine violence in hunter-gatherer as well as state societies from both the New and Old Worlds. Drawing upon cross-cultural analyses, archaeological data, and skeletal remains, this collection of papers offers evidence of domestic violence, homicide, warfare, cannibalism, and ritualized combat among ancient peoples. Beyond the physical evidence, various models and explanations for violence in the past are explored.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134385307
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Evidence amassed in Troubled Times indicates that, much like in the modern world, violence was not an uncommon aspect of prehistoric dispute resolution. From the civilizations of the American Southwest to the Mesolithic of Central Europe, the contributors examine violence in hunter-gatherer as well as state societies from both the New and Old Worlds. Drawing upon cross-cultural analyses, archaeological data, and skeletal remains, this collection of papers offers evidence of domestic violence, homicide, warfare, cannibalism, and ritualized combat among ancient peoples. Beyond the physical evidence, various models and explanations for violence in the past are explored.