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Salado
Using new data collected during the Roosevelt Dam Project, the contributors reinterpret prehistoric Salado culture in the American Southwest.
Collateral Security
About the Book When a rash of mystifying and ghastly deaths, in widely dispersed American cities, captures the attention of the United States government, administration officials recognize that the loss of life may reflect a deeper threat to the whole of the country. The CIA defers to the military to conduct an investigation. The U.S. Army assigns the task to Captain Trey Fitzjames. Fitzjames must study the causes of the deaths and, given the scope of the crisis, eliminate that cause at the source. About the Author J. Atwood Taylor, III earned degrees at Furman University and at the University of Florida. He practiced law for thirty-five years in Florida, first in Miami and later in Vero Beach. He and his wife currently live in Tennessee. He is the father of three daughters and has the good fortune of being in a position to devote much of his free time to his three grandchildren. Collateral Security is his third novel.
Identity, Feasting, and the Archaeology of the Greater Southwest
With contributions from sociocultural and linguistic anthropologists as well as archaeologists, this volume is the first to present case studies of social identity and feasting from throughout the Greater Southwest. A section of the book is also devoted to a synthesis and set of case studies on the archaeology of the pivotal Mexican State of Chihuahua. Unlike many previous studies, the authors of this volume place emphasis on how differences within and between societies came about rather than why dissimilar structures arose, elevating the place of both agency and history in understanding the past. Identity, Feasting, and the Archaeology of the Greater Southwest will be of interest to all doing archaeological research in the Southwestern United States and those conducting research on social identity, cultural affiliation, and commensal politics.
Obsidian
Obsidian was long valued by ancient peoples as a raw material for producing stone tools, and archaeologists have increasingly come to view obsidian studies as a crucial aid in understanding the past. Steven Shackley now shows how the geochemical and contextual analyses of archaeological obsidian can be applied to the interpretation of social and economic organization in the ancient Southwest. This book, the capstone of decades of investigation, integrates a wealth of obsidian research in one volume. It covers advances in analytical chemistry and field petrology that have enhanced our understanding of obsidian source heterogeneity, presents the most recent data on and interpretations of archa...
Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of Non-Literate Peoples
Proceedings of the session 'Intellectual and Spiritual Expression of Non-literate Peoples', part of the XVII World UISPP Congress, held in Burgos, 2014. The session brought together experts from various disciplines to share experience and scientific approaches for a better understanding of human creativity and behaviour in prehistory.
Deadly Landscapes
Deadly Landscapes presents a series of cases that advance the rigorous examination of war in the archaeological record. The studies encompass examples from the Hohokam, Sinagua, Mogollon, and Anasazi regions, plus a pan-regional study of iconography covering the Colorado Plateau and the Rio Grande Valley. All of the cases focus on the narrow time frame from AD 1200 to the early-1400s, during which evidence for warfare is most pervasive. Contributors to this volume present varying definitions of warfare and use differing types of data to test for the presence of warfare. These detailed case studies give clear demonstration of a pattern of significant warfare in the late prehistoric period that will alter our understanding of ancient Southwestern cultures.
Colonel Greene and the Copper Skyrocket
Winner of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame's Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Biography Winner of the Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Best Western Non-Fiction Book "A solid account of a southwestern 'character' who has flitted in and out of frontier and economic history."—American Historical Review "A creditable work on a fascinating individual. In delightful writing style [Sonnichsen] has reconstructed Greene's life, explaining the ambitions as well as the frailties of this extraordinary entrepreneur."—History "A rewarding study of the later days of mining."—Arizona and the West
Functional Properties of Modern Materials
Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2nd International Conference on Functional Materials Science (ICFMS 2014), November 12-13, 2014, Lombok, Indonesia
Discovering North American Rock Art
From the high plains of Canada to caves in the southeastern United States, images etched into and painted on stone by ancient Native Americans have aroused in observers the desire to understand their origins and meanings. Rock paintings and engravings can be found in nearly every state and province, and each region has its own distinctive story of discovery and evolving investigation of the rock art record. Rock art in the twenty-first century enjoys a large and growing popularity fueled by scholarly research and public interest alike. This book explores the history of rock art research in North America and is the only volume in the past twenty-five years to provide coverage of the subject o...
