 | California's Ancient Past:From Pacific to the Range of Light
Jeanne E. Arnold and Michael R. Walsh
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California’s Ancient Past is an excellent introduction and overview of the archaeology and ancient peoples of this diverse and dynamic part
of North America. Written in a concise and approachable format, the book provides an
excellent foundation for students, the general public, and scholars working in other regions around the world. This book will be an important source of information on California’s ancient past for years to come.
“With California’s Ancient Past, Arnold and Walsh [offer] a well-written, interesting, and succinct archaeological summary of California from the terminal Pleistocene to historic contact.”—David S. Whitley, Journal of Anthropological Research
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| CALIFORNIABK |
 | Using and Curating Archaeological Collections
Edited by S. Terry Childs and Mark S. Warner
2019
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All archaeologists have responsibilities to support the collections they produce, yet budgeting for and managing collections over the length of a project and beyond is not part of most archaeologists' training. While this book highlights major challenges that archaeologists and curators face with regards to collections, it also stresses the values, uses, and benefits of collections. It also demonstrates the continued significance of archaeological collections to the profession, tribes, and the public and provides critical resources for archaeologists to carry out their responsibilities. Many lament that the archaeological record is finite and disappearing. In this context, collections are even more important to preserve for future use, and this book will help all stakeholders do so.
“While this book has great practical value for curators and collections staff, it is a worthy addition to the shelves of any archaeologist committed to ethical stewardship of the archaeological record.”—Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology
“The curation of archaeological collections is a chronic and challenging issue. This volume is an important contribution. It outlines the importance of archaeological collections to a variety of audiences; discusses many of the key challenges we all face; and provides a resource list for archaeological curation. It is a very helpful volume for anyone who is interested in any aspect of archaeological curation and collections management.”
—forthcoming review in the Journal of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology
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| CURATING |
 | Food Production in Native North America
An Archaeological Perspective
Kristen J. Gremillion
2018
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This book provides a broad overview of the development of agriculture and other forms of resource management by the Native peoples of North America. Its geographical scope includes most of the continent's temperate zone, but regions where agriculture took hold are emphasized. Temporally, this volume looks back as far as the first indigenous domesticates that emerged in the midcontinental region and follows the story into the era of European conquest.
"This is an authoritative yet accessible book
reflecting the distinguished career of the
author. It is well indexed with extensive
references."—Lytton John Musselman, Plant Science Bulletin
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| FOOD |
 | Hawaii's Past in a World of Pacific Islands
James M. Bayman and Thomas S. Dye
2013
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Given its relatively late encounter with the West,
Hawaii offers an exciting opportunity to study a
society whose traditional lifeways and technologies
were recorded in native oral traditions and written
documents before they were changed by contact
with non-Polynesian cultures. This book chronicles
the role of archaeology in constructing a narrative of Hawaii’s
cultural past, focusing on material evidence dating from the
Polynesians’ first arrival on Hawaii’s shores about a millennium ago
to the early decades of settlement by Americans and Europeans in
the nineteenth century. A final chapter discusses new directions
taken by native Hawaiians toward changing the practice of
archaeology in the islands today.
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| HAWAIIBOOK |
 | All the King's Horses:
Essays on the Impact of Looting and the Illicit Antiquities Trade on Our Knowledge of the Past
Edited by Paula K. Lazrus and Alex Barker
2012
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This volume examines the impact of looting and
the use of artifacts of unknown provenance in the humanities and social sciences, ranging from the impact of amnesty laws for reporting stolen cultural property to the use of
Google Earth to assess the scale of illicit excavations, and from the impact of poorly sourced artifacts on early Mycenaean and Minoan studies to the structure of the growing commercial trade in ancient coins.
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| KINGSHORSES |
| Northwest Coast: Archaeology as Deep History
Madonna L. Moss
2011
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This concise overview of the archeology of the Northwest Coast of North America challenges stereotypes about complex hunter-gatherers.Madonna Moss argues that these ancient societies were first and foremost fishers and food producers and merit study outside socio-evolutionary frameworks. Moss approaches the archaeological record on
its own terms, recognizing that changes through time often
reflect sampling and visibility of the record itself. The book
synthesizes current research and is accessible to students and professionals alike.
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| NORTHWESTBK |
 | Oaxaca: Arqueología de una Región Mesoamericana
Por Nelly Robles García
2019
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Este libro ofrece una visión general de la arqueología de la región oaxaqueña, abordada desde sus orígenes, con los científicos del siglo XIX, hasta los estudios más recientes en la época moderna. Ubicada en el sur de México, esta región mesoamericana ha sido considerada como cuna de civilizaciones debido a su ininterrumpido desarrollo cultural, desde la prehistoria hasta nuestros días. El libro se presenta organizado en una manera cronológica, a fin de que el lector pueda comprender el desarrollo de las antiguas culturas que han convivido a lo largo de varios siglos en este agreste territorio. Ofrece una compilación de los conocimientos emanados de los varios proyectos arqueológicos que se han realizado permanentemente en Oaxaca, que han permitido ir construyendo la historia de los grupos humanos asentados desde la etapa lítica hasta la llegada de la conquista europea en las diversas sub-regiones. Muestra también los diversos enfoques de la arqueología mexicana y norteamericana que la han modelado, y que se han complementado de manera afortunada para hacer de Oaxaca una de las regiones más estudiadas de Mesoamérica.
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| OAXACA |
 | Out of the Cold:
Archaeology on the Arctic Rim of North America
Owen K. Mason and T. Max Friesen
2018
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The Arctic rim of North America presents one of the most daunting environments for humans. Cold and austere, it is lacking in plants but rich in marine mammals-primarily the ringed seal, walrus, and bowhead whale. In this book, the authors track the history of cultural innovations in the Arctic and Subarctic for the past 12,000 years, including the development of sophisticated architecture, watercraft, fur clothing, hunting technology, and worldviews. Climate change is linked to many of the successes and failures of its inhabitants; warming or cooling periods led to periods of resource abundance or collapse, and in several instances to long-distance migrations. At its western and eastern margins, the Arctic also experienced the impact of Asian and European world systems, from that of the Norse in the East to the Russians in the Bering Strait.
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| OUTOFTHECOLD |
 | Recent Developments in Southeastern Archaeology
From Colonization to Complexity
David G. Anderson and Kenneth E. Sassaman
2012
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This book represents a period-by-period synthesis
of southeastern prehistory designed for high
school and college students, avocational
archaeologists, and interested members of the general public.
It also serves as a basic reference for professional archaeologists
worldwide on the record of a remarkable region.
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