Author: William Fitzhugh
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311088044X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Papers examining the anthropology and archaeology of early cultures in Scandinavia, the North Pacific and Bering Sea, and the northwest Atlantic,with comparative studies of various aspects.
Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations of the Circumpolar Zone
Author: William Fitzhugh
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311088044X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Papers examining the anthropology and archaeology of early cultures in Scandinavia, the North Pacific and Bering Sea, and the northwest Atlantic,with comparative studies of various aspects.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 311088044X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
Papers examining the anthropology and archaeology of early cultures in Scandinavia, the North Pacific and Bering Sea, and the northwest Atlantic,with comparative studies of various aspects.
Language and Society
Author: William C. (Charles) McCormack
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780202330754
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780202330754
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Prehistoric Maritime Adaptations of the Circumpolar Zone
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Maritime Adaptations of the Pacific
Author: Richard W. Casteel
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110879905
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110879905
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Arctic Adaptations
Author: Igor Krupnik
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
ISBN: 1611686857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
The common view of indigenous Arctic cultures, even among scholarly observers, has long been one of communities continually in ecological harmony with their natural environment. In Arctic Adaptations, Igor Krupnik dismisses the textbook notion of traditional societies as static. Using information from years of field research, interviews with native Siberians, and archaeological site visits, Krupnik demonstrates that these societies are characterized not by stability but by dynamism and significant evolutionary breaks. Their apparent state of ecological harmony is, in fact, a conscious survival strategy resulting from "a prolonged and therefore successful process of human adaptation in one of the most extreme inhabited environments in the world." As their physical and cultural environment has changed--fluctuating reindeer and caribou herds, unpredictable weather patterns, introduction of firearms and better seacraft--Arctic communities have adapted by developing distinctive subsistence practices, social structures, and ethics regarding utilization of natural resources. Krupnik's pioneering work represents a dynamic marriage of ethnography and ecology, and makes accessible to Western scholars crucial findings and archival data previously unavailable because of political and language barriers.
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
ISBN: 1611686857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
The common view of indigenous Arctic cultures, even among scholarly observers, has long been one of communities continually in ecological harmony with their natural environment. In Arctic Adaptations, Igor Krupnik dismisses the textbook notion of traditional societies as static. Using information from years of field research, interviews with native Siberians, and archaeological site visits, Krupnik demonstrates that these societies are characterized not by stability but by dynamism and significant evolutionary breaks. Their apparent state of ecological harmony is, in fact, a conscious survival strategy resulting from "a prolonged and therefore successful process of human adaptation in one of the most extreme inhabited environments in the world." As their physical and cultural environment has changed--fluctuating reindeer and caribou herds, unpredictable weather patterns, introduction of firearms and better seacraft--Arctic communities have adapted by developing distinctive subsistence practices, social structures, and ethics regarding utilization of natural resources. Krupnik's pioneering work represents a dynamic marriage of ethnography and ecology, and makes accessible to Western scholars crucial findings and archival data previously unavailable because of political and language barriers.
Volcanic Activity and Human Ecology
Author: Payson D. Sheets
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483263185
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
Volcanic Activity and Human Ecology deals with dating, chronology, stratigraphy, volcanic activity, and with the impacts of volcanism on animals, plants, human populations, and the environment. Some of the chapters explain how such findings must be weighed against other causes that influence human behavior and survival, such as factors of social customs, climatic change, shifting biogeographic patterns, disease, and the ability to adapt. Each of the chapters that assess the possible human response to volcanism does so by searching for multiple explanations of the archaeological record, avoiding the simple argument that people were dramatically and inevitably overcome by catastrophic geologic events. The book begins with discussions of volcanism as seen by geologists and pedologists. These include s a general overview of volcanoes and volcanism; a review of the production, dispersal, and properties of tephra and of the geologic methods used to study tephra; and the nature of volcanic soils and their economic impact. Subsequent chapters use the geologic and modern records to examine volcanoes as hazards to people. The final series of papers deals with the interrelationships between volcanism and human occupations as seen through the archaeological, paleobotanical, and paleozoological records.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483263185
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
Volcanic Activity and Human Ecology deals with dating, chronology, stratigraphy, volcanic activity, and with the impacts of volcanism on animals, plants, human populations, and the environment. Some of the chapters explain how such findings must be weighed against other causes that influence human behavior and survival, such as factors of social customs, climatic change, shifting biogeographic patterns, disease, and the ability to adapt. Each of the chapters that assess the possible human response to volcanism does so by searching for multiple explanations of the archaeological record, avoiding the simple argument that people were dramatically and inevitably overcome by catastrophic geologic events. The book begins with discussions of volcanism as seen by geologists and pedologists. These include s a general overview of volcanoes and volcanism; a review of the production, dispersal, and properties of tephra and of the geologic methods used to study tephra; and the nature of volcanic soils and their economic impact. Subsequent chapters use the geologic and modern records to examine volcanoes as hazards to people. The final series of papers deals with the interrelationships between volcanism and human occupations as seen through the archaeological, paleobotanical, and paleozoological records.
Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory
Author: Peter Jordan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107118247
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Sheds light on the motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107118247
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Sheds light on the motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome.
California, Oregon, and Washington Archaeological Resource Study
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Continental shelf
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Continental shelf
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Coppers of the Northwest Coast Indians
Author: Carol F. Jopling
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871697912
Category : Copperwork
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871697912
Category : Copperwork
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers
Author: Ben Fitzhugh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461501377
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This book makes a contribution to the developing field of complex hunter-gatherer studies with an archaeological analysis of the development of one such group. It examines the evolution of complex hunter-gatherers on the North Pacific coast of Alaska. It is one of the first books available to examine in depth the social evolution of a specific complex hunter-gatherer tradition on the North Pacific Rim and will be of interest to professional archaeologists, anthropologists, and students of archaeology and anthropology.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461501377
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This book makes a contribution to the developing field of complex hunter-gatherer studies with an archaeological analysis of the development of one such group. It examines the evolution of complex hunter-gatherers on the North Pacific coast of Alaska. It is one of the first books available to examine in depth the social evolution of a specific complex hunter-gatherer tradition on the North Pacific Rim and will be of interest to professional archaeologists, anthropologists, and students of archaeology and anthropology.