Shawnee Minisink

Shawnee Minisink
Author: Charles W. McNett
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2014-05-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1483276066

Studies in Archaeology: Shawnee Minisink: A Stratified Paleoindian-Archaic Site in the Upper Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania focuses on the excavation of the Shawnee Minisink and its connection with the lifestyles of the earliest inhabitants of North America. The selection first offers information on the Upper Delaware Valley Early Man Project, early history of archaeological research at the Shawnee Minisink Site, and methodology and research design at the Shawnee Minisink Site. Discussions focus on data recovery design, evaluation of methodology, research context, and goals. The text then examines the biophysical conditions of the Upper Delaware Valley; aboriginal subsistence and site ecology as interpreted from microfloral and faunal remains; and artifact morphology and chronology at the Shawnee Minisink Site. The book takes a look at myth, reality, and the Upper Delaware Valley, Paleoindian artifact form and function at Shawnee Minisink, and Paleoindian to early archaic transition at the Shawnee Minisink Site. Topics include environmental setting, lithic analysis results, secondary modifications, hafting, endscraper distributional pattern, analytic technique and procedure, and paleoecological reconstruction. The selection is a dependable reference for archeologists wanting to conduct further studies on the Shawnee Minisink Site.

Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America

Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America
Author: Renee Beauchamp Walker
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0803207646

These essays cast new light on Paleoindians, the first settlers of North America. Recent research strongly suggests that big-game hunting was but one of the subsistence strategies the first humans in the New World employed and that they also relied on foraging and fishing.

Encyclopedia of Prehistory

Encyclopedia of Prehistory
Author: Peter N. Peregrine
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2001-12-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780306462603

The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents temporal dimension. Major traditions are an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory of humankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries, but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world's and kinship ties play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and time periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con The Encyclopedia is organized accord texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties are central to defining ethno is defined as a group of populations sharing logical cultures.

Shawnee Minisink

Shawnee Minisink
Author: Charles W. McNett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1985
Genre: Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
ISBN:

The Leavitt Site

The Leavitt Site
Author: Michael J. Shott
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0915703327

This illustrated monograph is an innovative analysis of forager archaeology in general and Paleo-Indian studies in particular. This is a companion volume to Thedford II: A Paleo-Indian Site in the Ausable River Watershed of Southwestern Ontario (Memoir 24).

The Buried Past

The Buried Past
Author: John L. Cotter
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 563
Release: 1992
Genre: Archaeology and history
ISBN: 0812231422

The Buried Past presents the most significant archaeological discoveries made in one of America's most historic cities. Based on more than thirty years of intensive archaeological investigations in the greater Philadelphia area, this study contains the first record of many nationally important sites linking archaeological evidence to historical documentation, including Interdependence and Valley Forge National Historical Parks. It provides an archaeological tour through the houses and life-ways of both the great figures and the common people. It reveals how people dined, what vessels and dishes they used, and what their trinkets (and secret sins) were.

Clovis

Clovis
Author: Ashley M. Smallwood
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2014-12-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1623492017

New research and the discovery of multiple archaeological sites predating the established age of Clovis (13,000 years ago) provide evidence that the Americas were first colonized at least one thousand to two thousand years before Clovis. These revelations indicate to researchers that the peopling of the Americas was perhaps a more complex process than previously thought. The Clovis culture remains the benchmark for chronological, technological, and adaptive comparisons in research on peopling of the Americas. In Clovis: On the Edge of a New Understanding, volume editors Ashley Smallwood and Thomas Jennings bring together the work of many researchers actively studying the Clovis complex. The contributing authors presented earlier versions of these chapters at the Clovis: Current Perspectives on Chronology, Technology, and Adaptations symposium held at the 2011 Society for American Archaeology meetings in Sacramento, California. In seventeen chapters, the researchers provide their current perspectives of the Clovis archaeological record as they address the question: What is and what is not Clovis?