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Zusatztext If any editor is to be given special praise for his work, vision and services to the cause of clarity, then it is Timothy Pauketat. His handbook, marshalling the contributions of 62 authors, is a model of organization." Informationen zum Autor Timothy R. Pauketat is an Archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Klappentext This volume explores 15,000 years of indigenous human history on the North American continent, drawing on the latest archaeological theories, time-honored methodologies, and rich datasets. From the Arctic south to the Mexican border and east to the Atlantic Ocean, all of the major cultural developments are covered in 53 chapters, with certain periods, places, and historical problems receiving special focus by the volume's authors. Questions like who first peopled the continent, what did it mean to have been a hunter-gatherer in the Great Basin versus the California coast, how significant were cultural exchanges between Native North Americans and Mesoamericans, and why do major historical changes seem to correspond to shifts in religion, politics, demography, and economy are brought into focus. The practice of archaeology itself is discussed as contributors wrestle with modern-day concerns with the implications of doing archaeology and its relevance for understanding ourselves today. In the end, the chapters in this book show us that the principal questions answered about human history through the archaeology of North America are central to any larger understanding of the relationships between people, cultural identities, landscapes, and the living of everyday life. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology reviews the continent's first and last foragers, farmers, and great pre-Columbian civic and ceremonial centers, from Chaco Canyon to Moundville and beyond. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section 1. Histories, Perspectives, and Definitions 1. Questioning the Past in North America, Timothy R. Pauketat 2. Hunter-Gatherer Theory in North American Archaeology, Kenneth E. Sassaman and Asa R. Randall 3. Bone Lickers, Grave Diggers, and Other Unsavory Characters: Archaeologists, Archaeological Cultures, and the Disconnect from Native Peoples, Joe Watkins Section 2. Pan-American Connections, Migrations, and Encounters 4. Historical Archaeology and Native Agency across the Spanish Borderlands, David Hurst Thomas 5. Some Commonalities Linking North America And Mesoamerica, Robert L. Hall 6. The North American Oikoumene, Peter N. Peregrine and Stephen H. Lekson 7. People, Plants, And Culinary Traditions, Deborah M. Pearsall 8. Early Paleoindians from Colonization to Folsom, Nicole Waguespack 9. Pleistocene Settlement in the East, David G. Anderson Section 3. Archaeological Histories and Cultural Processes I. Arctic and Subarctic 10. Adapting to a Frozen Coastal Environment, Robert W. Park 11. Rethinking Eastern Subarctic History, Donald H. Holly, Jr. and Moira Mccaffrey 12. Archaeology of the North Pacific, Herbert D. G. Maschner II. The West 13. Foundations for the Far West: Paleoindian Cultures on the Western Fringe of North America, Jon Erlandson and Todd J. Braje 14. Archaeology of the Northwest Coast, Herbert D. G. Maschner 15. The Winter Village Pattern on the Plateau of Northwestern North America, Anna Marie Prentiss 16. Great Basin Foraging Strategies, Christopher Morgan and Robert L. Bettinger 17. The Evolution of Social Organization, Settlement Patterns, and Population Densities in Prehistoric Owens Valley, Jelmer Eerkins 18. Mound Building by California Hunter-Gatherers, Kent G. Lightfoot and Edward M. Luby 19. Diversity, Exchange, and Complexity in the California Bight, Jennifer E. Perry 20. Archaeologies of Colonial Reduction and Cultural Production in Native North...
