" Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this volume offer new, contrary evidence to dispute this earlier assumption, and their studies demonstrate the vigor and complexity of prehistori ..."
"This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States. The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research over the past 25 years. Researchers have learned that in this approximately 2000-year era the peoples of the Southeast experienced increasing ..."
"The shell-bearing sites of the middle Green River region in western Kentucky have played a defining role in how archaeologists conceptualize Middle Holocene fisher-hunter-gatherers. This book presents new interpretations of data gathered over a 30-year period about the Native American people who lived along the middle Green River from about 4500 to 2000 B.C. Interdisciplinary by design, the Shell Mound Archaeological Project directe ..."
"1984 305 pages with illustrations. Original Publication, not a modern reprint. Hardbound with good dust jacket, previous owners stamp, text in very good condition"
Archeology of the Mammoth Cave Area(1st Edition) (Studies in archaeology) por Watson Editor Hardcover, 255 Páginas, Publicado 1974 por Academic Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-12-785927-9, ISBN: 0-12-785927-6
"A millennia ago, Native Americans entered the dark recesses of a cave in eastern Missouri and painted an astonishing array of human, animal, and supernatural creatures on its walls. Known as Picture Cave, it was a hallowed site for sacred rituals and rites of passage, for explaining the multi-layered cosmos, for vision quests, for communing with spirits in the "other world," and for burying the dead. The number, variety, and complexity ..."
"This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations of the past, while recognizing the wonde ..."
Archaeological Ethnography in Western Iran(1st Edition) (Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, No. 57) por PattyJoWatson Paperback, 327 Páginas, Publicado 1979 por University Of Arizona Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-0577-7, ISBN: 0-8165-0577-2
ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE (Smithsonian Series in Archaeological Inquiry) por C.Wesley Cowan, PattyJoWatson Hardcover, 256 Páginas, Publicado 1992 por Smithsonian ISBN-13: 978-0-87474-990-8, ISBN: 0-87474-990-5
"For centuries, the goal of archaeologists was to document and describe material artifacts, and at best to make inferences about the origins and evolution of human culture and about prehistoric and historic societies. During the 1960s, however, a number of young, primarily American archaeologists, including William Longacre, rebelled against this simplistic approach. Wanting to do more than just describe, Longacre and others believed tha ..."
"This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations of the past, while recognizing the wonde ..."
"Discusses the history and scientific method of archeology in the United States. Examines archeological practices, methodology in prehistoric archeology, and archeology as related to the social sciences."
Man and Nature(1st Edition) Anthropological Essay in Human Ecology por Richard A. Watson, PattyJoWatson Paperback, 172 Páginas, Publicado 1969 por Harcourt Brace College Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-15-554725-4, ISBN: 0-15-554725-9
"Man and Nature presents hypothetical models of eight ways of life --of the nonhuman primate, the protohuman, and six stages of man--synthesized from factual information about the interaction of selected primates with the physical environment. The eight "ways of life" chapters, which form Part II, the core of the book, thus contain few statements of "fact" in a technical sense. The models are constructed on the basis of fundamental laws ..."
Girikihaciyan A Halafian Site in Southeastern Turkey (Cotsen Monograph) por PattyJoWatson, Steven A. Leblanc Paperback, 140 Páginas, Publicado 1990 por Cotsen Institute Of Archaeology Press ISBN-13: 978-0-917956-69-0, ISBN: 0-917956-69-9
"A descriptive report from a Halafian area with little previous excavation data. The Halaf represent one of the earliest complex societies in Western Asia, from ca. 5000 to 4500 BC, and also one of the earliest agricultural societes to use draft animals. Thus the authors explore the impact of new technologies on ancient societies and on surrounding culture groups. Includes data on ceramics, lithics, faunal remains, burials, and architect ..."
"Patty Jo Watson's prolific career began in the early 1950s as an energetic graduate student at the University of Chicago and culminated with her induction into the National Academy of Sciences and subsequent retirement from Washington University in 2003. During that time her groundbreaking research impacted multiple fields within the discipline of archaeology, but her astonishing research into the underground caves of the eastern United ..."