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Selected Library Books: Archaeology of North America

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The archaeology of the Atlantic northeast [E-Book] by Betts, Matthew W; Hrynick, M. Gabriel The first book to integrate and interpret archaeological data from the entire Atlantic Northeast, making unprecedented cultural connections across a broad region that encompasses the Canadian Atlantic provinces, the Quebec Lower North Shore, and Maine.
Publication Date: 2021
The Eastern Archaic, Historicized [E-Book] by Kenneth E. Sassaman The Eastern Archaic, Historicized offers an alternative perspective on the genesis and transformation of cultural diversity over eight millennia of hunter-gatherer dwelling in eastern North America. For many decades, archaeological understanding of Archaic diversity has been dominated by perspectives that emphasize localized relationships between humans and environment. The evidence, shows, however that Archaic people routinely associated with other groups throughout eastern North America and expressed themselves materially in ways that reveal historical links to other places and times. Starting with the colonization of eastern North America by two distinct ancestral lines, the Eastern Archaic was an era of migrations, ethnogenesis, and coalescence--an 8,200-year era of making histories through interactions and expressing them culturally in ritual and performance.
Publication Date: 2010
Ancient North America: the archaeology of a continent by Brian M. Fagan This highly anticipated revision delivers thoroughly updated coverage of sites and discoveries in a new, streamlined format. While retaining Brian Fagan's hallmark, story-telling style, the Fifth Edition provides new features that engage and enlighten. "Enduring Theme" sections add to the region-by-region organization, helping students make connections across the American continent and among Native American cultures. And because of judicious streamlining, the book is more readable and 25% briefer.
Publication Date: 2018
The Archaeology of Native North America [E-Resource] by Dean R. Snow; Nancy Gonlin; Peter E. Siegel The Archaeology of Native North America presents the ideas, evidence, and debates regarding the initial peopling of the continent by mobile bands of hunters and gatherers and the cultural evolution of their many lines of descent over the ensuing millennia. The emergence of farming, urban centers, and complex political organization paralleled similar developments in other world areas. With the arrival of Europeans to North America and the inevitable clashes of culture, colonizers and colonists were forever changed, which is also represented in the archaeological heritage of the continent. Unlike others, this book includes Mesoamerica and the Caribbean, thus addressing broad regional interactions and the circulation of people, things, and ideas. This edition incorporates results of new archaeological research since the publication of the first edition a decade earlier. Fifty-four new box features highlight selected archaeological sites, which are publicly accessible gateways into the study of North American archaeology. The features were authored by specialists with direct knowledge of the sites and their broad importance. Glossaries are provided at the end of every chapter to clarify specialized terminology. The book is directed to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students taking survey courses in American archaeology, as well as other advanced readers. It is extensively illustrated and includes citations to sources with their own robust bibliographies, leading diligent readers deeper into the professional literature. The Archaeology of Native North America is the ideal text for courses in North American archaeology.
Publication Date: 2019
North American Archaeology
Call Number: UofL Main Collection E 159.5 N67 2005
Publication Date: 2004
The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains [E-RESOURCE] by Douglas B. Bamforth In this volume, Douglas B. Bamforth offers an archaeological overview of the Great Plains, the vast, open grassland bordered by forests and mountain ranges situated in the heart of North America. Synthesizing a century of scholarship and new archaeological evidence, he focuses on changes in resource use, continental trade connections, social formations, and warfare over a period of 15,000 years. Bamforth investigates how foragers harvested the grasslands more intensively over time, ultimately turning to maize farming, and examines the persistence of industrial mobile bison hunters in much of the region as farmers lived in communities ranging from hamlets to towns with thousands of occupants. He also explores how social groups formed and changed, migrations of peoples in and out of the Plains, and the conflicts that occurred over time and space. Significantly, Bamforth's volume demonstrates how archaeology can be used as the basis for telling long-term, problem-oriented human history.
Publication Date: 2021
The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic [E-book]
Publication Date: 2016
Meetings at the Margins : Prehistoric cultural interactions in the intermountain west [E-book]
Publication Date: 2012
Ancient Peoples of the American Southwest
Call Number: UofL Main Collection E 78 S7 P556 2008
Publication Date: 2008
The Moundbuilders : ancient peoples of eastern North America
Call Number: UofL Main Collection E 78 E2 M55 2005
Publication Date: 2005
Cahokia Mounds [E-Book]
Publication Date: 2004
These mysterious people : shaping history and archaeology in a Northwest Coast community
Call Number: UofL Main Collection E 99 S21 R69 2016
Publication Date: 2016

Selected Books: Early North American History

Selected early North American History-related book titles.

From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: human organization and cultural transformations in prehistoric North America [E-Book]
Publication Date: 2012
Settlement Ecology of the Ancient Americas [E-Book]
Publication Date: 2016
A History of the Native People of Canada, 10,000-1,000 B. C. This is the first of three volumes on the history of the Native people of Canada as revealed by archaeological evidence. Over 12,000 years of Native history preceded the arrival of Europeans. This first volume begins with the spread of Ice Age hunters out of a land mass called Beringia that once joined Asia and North America. Most of the country was covered by glacial ice, and extinct animals such as mammoth and sabre toothed cats occupied the tundra and lichen woodlands. People of this first and subsequent migrations from Asia gradually adapted to the rapidly changing environment. Eventually, distinct cultures occupied all of Canadas major environmental zones. Volumes two and three span the periods from 1,000 B.C. to A.D. 500 and A.D. 500 to European contact, respectively. It is hoped that these volumes will make a contribution towards a greater appreciation of Native history prior to the devastating events initiated by the European occupation of Canada.
Call Number: UofL Main Collection E 78 C2 W9335 1995
Publication Date: 1996

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Archaeology of North America Subject Headings

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Archaeology & the Lost Franklin Expedition

Finding Franklin : the untold story of a 165-year search [E-book] In 2014 media around the world buzzed with news that an archaeological team from Parks Canada had located and identified the wreck of HMS Erebus, the flagship of Sir John Franklin's lost expedition to find the Northwest Passage. Finding Franklin outlines the larger story and the cast of detectives from every walk of life that led to the discovery, solving one of the Arctic’s greatest mysteries.
Publication Date: 2016

Archaeology -- North America: Books & e-Books

Selected Library Books: Archaeology of North America

Selected Books: Early North American History

Digitized Books: General Sources [Free Online]

Archaeology of North America Subject Headings

Archaeology & the Lost Franklin Expedition

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