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Ancient peoples of the Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau / Steven R. Simms ; original artwork by Eric Carlson and Noel Carmack.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simms, Steven R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paleo-Indians--Great Basin.
- Paleo-Indians.
- Paleo-Indians--Colorado Plateau.
- Indians of North America--Great Basin--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America.
- Antiquities.
- Indians of North America--Colorado Plateau--Antiquities.
- Great Basin--Antiquities.
- Great Basin.
- Colorado Plateau--Antiquities.
- Colorado Plateau.
- Great Basin--Environmental conditions--History.
- Colorado Plateau--Environmental conditions--History.
- Physical Description:
- 383 pages, 15 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Written to appeal to professional archaeologists, students, and the interested public alike, this book is a long overdue introduction to the ancient peoples of the Great Basin and northern Colorado Plateau. Through detailed syntheses, the reader is drawn into the story of the habitation of the Great Basin from the entry of the first Native Americans through the arrival of Europeans. Ancient Peoples is a major contribution to Great Basin archaeology and anthropology, as well as the general study of foraging societies.
- Contents:
- 1 The Ancient World of the Basin-Plateau 25
- Native Culture before the Horse 27
- Technology 29
- Mobility and Settlement 32
- Subsistence 37
- Sidebar: Forager Cuisine 44
- Social and Political Organization 46
- Ideology 56
- From Historic Baseline to the Deep Past: A Spiral of Contexts 60
- 2 Ancient Climate and Habitats 65
- The Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau 67
- The Wasatch Front 69
- Just before History 71
- Stepping into a Deeper Past 75
- Sidebar: How Do We Know about Past Environments and Climate? 78
- Sidebar: Dates of the Past and How to Read Them 81
- The Little Ice Age: A.D. 1300-1800 84
- Warming, Variation, and the Medieval Warm Period A.D. 0-1300 88
- Cooling and the Neoglacial Period: 4500-2000 B.P. (A.D. 0) 91
- Two Spikes of Warming: 8000-4500 B.P. 94
- The Early Holocene and Water in the Desert: 10,000-8000 B.P. 96
- The Wild Ride of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition: 13,000-10,000 B.P. 99
- Lake Bonneville and the Pleistocene: 16,000-13,000 B.P. 101
- 3 The First Explorers, Colonists, and Settlers 105
- Sidebar: Who Were the First Explorers and Colonists? 107
- An Ecological Moment and Why Paleoindian Life Was Different 110
- Paleoindian-Paleoarchaic Artifacts 112
- Paleoindian Places 116
- Wetlands, Big Game, and a Dynamic Climate 125
- Sidebar: Did Humans Kill Off the Pleistocene Megafauna? 126
- Diet, Toolstone, Technology, and Mobility 126
- What Can We Say about Paleoindian Life and Society? 133
- Transition to Paleoarchaic Life and Society 138
- 4 Eons of Foragers 141
- A Long Time and Some Big Changes 142
- Settlers of the Early Archaic (9000-7000 B.P.) 144
- High Desert Foragers of the Middle Archaic (7000-3000 B.P.) 151
- Sidebar: The Built Environment 152
- Sidebar: Humans and the Pinyon Pine 162
- The Late Archaic and a Land Filled with Foragers (3000-1000 B.P.) 167
- A Cultural Sea Change: The Shift in Values from Public to Private Goods 177
- Farming Comes to Utah 180
- 5 The Fremont 185
- Fremont Places, Fremont Life, Fremont Place 187
- Sidebar: The Big Village at Willard (by Mark E. Stuart) 191
- Keys to Fremont Origins 195
- Indigenes, Explorers, and Colonists: The Fremont Frontier 199
- Sidebar: Farming, Language, and Immigrants 200
- Language, Ethnicity, and a Sprinkling of Neolithic Communities 205
- The Bow and Arrow, Ceramics, and Maize 209
- The Desert and the Sown 212
- Big Villages, Inequality, and Hierarchy 217
- Family, Lineage, Connections, and Conflict 222
- 6 The Late Prehistoric Millennium 229
- The End of Fremont Place 231
- Foragers to the West, People from the West 235
- Languages Old and New 240
- The Role of California 244
- The Spread of the Numic Languages and the Making of the Numic Cultures 248
- Sidebar: The Relationship of Modern Tribes to the Ancients 255
- Many into the New: The Late Prehistoric on the Wasatch Front 256
- Life after the Fremont 263
- Widowed Continent: Disease, Depopulation, and History 266.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-368) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781598742954
- 1598742957
- 9781598742961
- 1598742965
- OCLC:
- 183262312
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