The Oxford handbook of North American archaeology / [edited by] Timothy R. Pauketat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pauketat, Timothy R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Antiquities--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Indians of North America.

Archaeology--North America--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Archaeology.

Antiquities.

Indians of North America--Antiquities.

North America--Antiquities--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

North America.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 666 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Handbook of North American archaeology

North American archaeology

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Presents avant-garde archaeological theories alongside traditional approaches

Mixes grand overviews with detailed studies by regional experts

Includes over 170 vivid photographs, maps, and detailed illustrations Book jacket.

Contents:

Questioning the past in North America / Timothy R. Pauketat

Hunter-gatherer theory in North American archaeology / Kenneth E. Sassaman and Asa R. Randall

Bone lickers, grave diggers, and other unsavory characters : archaeologists, archaeological cultures, and the disconnect from Native peoples / Joe Watkins

Historical archaeology and Native agency across the Spanish borderlands / David Hurst Thomas

Some commonalities linking North America and Mesoamerica / Robert L. Hall

The North American oikoumene / Peter N. Peregrine and Stephen H. Lekson

People, plants, and culinary traditions / Deborah M. Pearsall

Early Paleoindians, from colonization to Folsom / Nicole Waguespack

Pleistocene settlement in the east / David G. Anderson

Adapting to a frozen coastal environment / Robert W. Park

Rethinking eastern subarctic history / Donald H. Holly Jr. and Moira McCaffrey

Archaeology of the North Pacific / Herbert D.G. Maschner

Foundations for the Far West : Paleoindian cultures on the western fringe of North America / Jon Erlandson and Todd J. Braje

Archaeology of the Northwest Coast / Herbert D.G. Maschner

The winter village pattern on the plateau of northwestern North America / Anna Marie Prentiss

Great Basin foraging strategies / Christopher Morgan and Robert L. Bettinger

The evolution of social organization, settlement patterns, and population densities in prehistoric Owens Valley / Jelmer W. Eerkens

Mound building by California hunter-gatherers / Kent G. Lightfoot and Edward M. Luby

Diversity, exchange, and complexity in the California Bight / Jennifer E. Perry

Archaeologies of colonial reduction and cultural production in Native northern California / Stephen W. Silliman

Overview of the St. Lawrence archaic through woodland / Claude Chapdelaine

New England Algonquians : navigating "backwaters" and typological boundaries / Elizabeth S. Chilton

What will be has always been : the past and present of northern Iroquoians / Ronald F. Williamson

Regional ritual organization in the northern Great Lakes, AD 1200-1600 / Meghan C.L. Howey

Villagers and farmers of the middle and upper Ohio River Valley, 11th to 17th centuries AD : the Fort Ancient and Monongahela traditions / Bernard K. Means

Native history in the Chesapeake : the Powhatan chiefdom and beyond / Martin Gallivan

Lifeways through time in the Upper Mississippi River Valley and northeastern Plains / Guy Gibbon

The archaeological imprint of oral traditions on the landscape of Northern Plains hunter-gatherers / Gerald A. Oetelaar

Situating (proto) history on the northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountains / Laura L. Scheiber and Judson Byrd Finley

The origins and development of farming villages in the northern Great Plains / Mark D. Mitchell

Planting the Plains : the development and extent of Plains Village agriculturalists in the southern and central Plains / Richard R. Drass

Women on the edge: looking at protohistoric Plains-Pueblo interaction from a feminist perspective / Judith A. Habicht-Mauche

Cahokia interaction and ethnogenesis in the northern Midcontinent / Thomas E. Emerson

The Effigy Mound to Oneota revolution in the Upper Mississippi River Valley / Robert F. Boszhardt

Post-contact cultural dynamics in the upper Great Lakes region / Vergil E. Noble

Mound building societies of the southern Midwest and southeast / George R. Milner

Re-envisioning Eastern Woodlands archaic origins / Dale L. McElrath and Thomas E. Emerson

Poverty Point / Tristram R. Kidder

Origins of the Hopewell phenomenon / Douglas K. Charles

Monumental landscape and community in the southern Lower Mississippi Valley during the late woodland and Mississippi periods / Mark A. Rees

Making Mississippian at Cahokia / Susan M. Alt

Mississippian in the deep South : common themes in varied histories / Adam King

Living with war : the impact of chronic violence in the Mississippian period central Illinois Valley / Gregory D. Wilson

Moundville in the Mississippian world / John H. Blitz

The archaeology of the greater Southwest : migration, inequality, and religious transformations / Barbara J. Mills

Diversity in first century AD southwestern farming communities / Lisa Young

Hohokam society and water management / Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish

Terraced lives : cerros de trincheras in the northwest/southwest / Bridget M. Zavala

Chaco's hinterlands / Stephen H. Lekson

The Mesa Verde region / Mark D. Varien, Timothy A. Kohler, and Scott G. Ortman

Warfare and conflict in the late pre-Columbian Pueblo world / James E. Snead

The Pueblo village in an age of reformation (AD 1300-1600) / Severin Fowles

Casas Grandes phenomenon / Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780195380118

0195380118

OCLC:

706677644