Guide to Palaeolithic Artifacts and Features of the Americas

Guide to Palaeolithic Artifacts and Features of the Americas
Author: Richard Michael Gramly
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2024-07-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1538186977

Guide to Palaeolithic Artifacts and Features of the Americas is the go-to reference for stone, bone, antler, ivory, and wooden artifacts of the Palaeolithic era in the Americas. Written by Ricard Michael Gramly, an expert in the field, this book canvases a century of archaeological literature and scholarship and includes over 150 images to clearly and efficiently classify the artifacts discussed. Each artifact includes all the terms and synonyms by which it is classified, a visual depiction of the artifact, and the time period in which the artifact occurred in. Combining both Old and New World technologies, typologies and practices, this book is a must-have compilation for professional and amateur archaeologists, collectors of Palaeolithic artifacts, and the casual reader interested in the history of the Americas.

Assessing Site Significance

Assessing Site Significance
Author: Donald L. Hardesty
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2009-03-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0759113289

Assessing Site Significance is an invaluable resource for archaeologists and others who need guidance in determining whether sites are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Because the register's eligibility criteria were largely developed for standing sites, it is difficult to know in any particular case whether a site known primarily through archaeological work has sufficient 'historical significance' to be listed. Hardesty and Little address these challenges, describing how to file for NRHP eligibility and how to determine the historical significance of archaeological properties. This second edition brings everything up to date, and includes new material on 17th- and 18th-century sites, traditional cultural properties, shipwrecks, Japanese internment camps, and military properties.

Archaeological Oddities

Archaeological Oddities
Author: Kenneth L. Feder
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2019-03-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1538105977

Does evidence show that Native Americas residing in Utah a thousand years ago lived among dinosaurs, depicting those creatures in their rock art? Did some of those same ancient Americans also encounter visitors from other planets, painting images of space-suited aliens on canyon walls? Have archaeologists discovered evidence that members of the Lost Tribes of Israel visited ancient America, leaving their mark by engraving the Ten Commandments in Hebrew on rocks in New Mexico? And Ohio? Is there archaeological evidence of ancient Celtic visitors to the New World in the form of messages etched in stone, megalithic monuments, and even the remnants of the villages in which they lived? Are American archaeologists covering up the remains of lost cities deeply ensconced in a secret cave in Arizona and in a subterranean chamber in Missouri? Finally, have archaeologists discovered the far western outpost of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, not in Egypt or even Africa, but in, of all places, California? Those questions and more are answered by archaeologist Ken Feder in Archaeological Oddities: A Field Guide to Forty Claims of Lost Civilizations, Ancient Visitors, and Other Strange Sites in North Americathat the above listed questions and others addressed in his book represent the equivalent of “fake news” about America’s ancient past. The forty sites he highlights are, in fact, fascinating and fun places to visit. Feder’s guide provides an entertaining summary of those forty sites along with the practical information you’ll need to visit them. This full-color book includes over 100 fascinating photographs.

The Archaeologist's Field Handbook

The Archaeologist's Field Handbook
Author: Heather Burke
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2008-10-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0759112274

The Archaeologist's Field Handbook: North American Edition is a hands-on manual that provides step-by-step guidance for archaeological field work. Specially designed for students (both undergraduate and graduate) and avocational archaeologists, this informative guide combines clear and accessible information on doing fieldwork with practical advice on cultural heritage management projects. The Archaeologist's Field Handbook presents firmly grounded (pun intended!), essential, practical archaeological techniques and clearly elucidates the ethical issues facing archaeology today. A wealth of diagrams, photos, maps and checklists show in vivid detail how to design, fund, research, map, record, interpret, photograph, and present archaeological surveys and excavations. The Archaeologist's Field Handbook is an indispensable tool for new and aspiring archaeologists as they venture into the field.

Handbook of Archaeological Theories

Handbook of Archaeological Theories
Author: R. Alexander Bentley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2008
Genre: Archaeology
ISBN: 0759100322

This handbook, a companion to the authoritative Handbook of Archaeological Methods, gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists on all aspects of the latest thinking about archaeological theory. It is the definitive resource for understanding how to think about archaeology.

Olive Branch

Olive Branch
Author: Richard Michael Gramly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2002
Genre: Alexander County (Ill.)
ISBN:

Archaeological investigations (1987-2002) at theOlive Branch site -- a very large encampment on the banks of the Mississippi River at the first ford ofthe River northward of New Orleans. This site wascontinuously occupied throughout the 10th millenium B.P. (radiocarbon).

Archaeobiology

Archaeobiology
Author: Kristin Sobolik
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2003-04-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0759116210

An introduction to the study of biological, osteological, and botanical remains on archaeological sites.

Lithics After the Stone Age

Lithics After the Stone Age
Author: Steven A. Rosen
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780761991243

Not everyone bought into the Bronze Age right away, and Rosen describes and classifies the stone tools that continued to be made and used in the Middle East for the next two thousand years. He considers subtypes, function, distribution, chronology, the organization of production, styles, the relationship between lithic and metal technology, and other aspects. Over 100 drawings and maps provide archaeologists with a guide to identifying finds. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa

Prehistoric Stone Tools of Eastern Africa
Author: John J. Shea
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2020-04-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108424430

A detailed overview of the Eastern African stone tools that make up the world's longest archaeological record.