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The Cultural Dynamics of Shell-Matrix Sites
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

The Cultural Dynamics of Shell-Matrix Sites

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-15
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

The excavation of shell middens and mounds is an important source of information regarding past human diet, settlement, technology, and paleoenvironments. The contributors to this book introduce new ways to study shell-matrix sites, ranging from the geochemical analysis of shellfish to the interpretation of human remains buried within. Drawing upon examples from around the world, this is one of the only books to offer a global perspective on the archaeology of shell-matrix sites. “A substantial contribution to the literature on the subject and . . . essential reading for archaeologists and others who work on this type of site.”—Barbara Voorhies, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Coastal Collectors in the Holocene: The Chantuto People of Southwest Mexico

Current Research in Archaeology of South American Pampas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 442

Current Research in Archaeology of South American Pampas

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Gendered Crossings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

Gendered Crossings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-02-15
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

Between 1778 and 1784 the Spanish Crown transported more than 1,900 peasants, including 875 women and girls, from northern Spain to South America in an ill-fated scheme to colonize Patagonia. The story begins as the colonists trudge across northern Spain to volunteer for the project and follows them across the Atlantic to Montevideo. However, before the last ships reached the Americas, harsh weather, disease, and the prospect of mutiny on the Patagonian coast forced the Crown to abandon the project. Eventually, the peasant colonists were resettled in towns outside of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where they raised families, bought slaves, and gradually integrated into colonial society. Gendered Crossings brings to life the diverse settings of the Iberian Atlantic and the transformations in the peasants’ gendered experiences as they moved around the Spanish Empire.

Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 75
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 701

Handbook of Latin American Studies Vol. 75

The 2021 volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies.

The Power of Nature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

The Power of Nature

In The Power of Nature archaeologists address the force and impact of nature relative to human knowledge, action, and volition. Case studies from around the world focusing on different levels of sociopolitical complexity—ranging from early agricultural societies to states and empires—address the ways in which nature retains the upper hand in human agentive environmental discourse, providing an opportunity for an insightful perspective on the current anthropological emphasis on how humans affect the environment. Climatic events, pathogens, and animals as nonhuman agents, ranging in size from viruses to mega-storms, have presented our species with dynamic conditions that overwhelm human ca...

A saúde dos nossos antepassados: um olhar sobre a paleopatologia
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 161

A saúde dos nossos antepassados: um olhar sobre a paleopatologia

A saúde dos nossos antepassados versa sobre paleopatologia, disciplina orientada para as investigações acerca da saúde humana a partir do estudo dos vestígios que persistem após a morte. Os ossos e dentes perduram ao longo do tempo, revelando evidências de pretéritas doenças e da variabilidade no percurso da história da humanidade. Nesta disciplina os vestígios esqueléticos foram sempre estudados com recurso às mais recentes técnicas. Nunca como hoje houve tantos vestígios disponíveis para análise mas, em contraste, nunca corremos tão grande risco de os perder. Num notável exercício de síntese, articula a abordagem biocultural da paleopatologia de modo original e interdisciplinar, não descurando as questões éticas a que estamos compelidos pela natureza da Antropologia. A forma clara, e até lúdica, da escrita torna-a atrativa tanto para quem detém conhecimentos de paleopatologia como para estreantes, sendo também um livro pedagógico e, por conseguinte, recomendável para o ensino.

Cacicazgos en las Américas
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 323

Cacicazgos en las Américas

La presente obra es un reconocimiento al aporte que Robert D. Drennan ha hecho en diferentes ámbitos de la arqueología en las Américas, no solo a través de sus investigaciones y publicaciones sino también como tutor de un considerable número de arqueólogos formados en el programa de doctorado de la Universidad de Pittsburgh, EUA. Los once artículos que se incluyen en este volumen abordan diversos tópicos relacionados con las trayectorias de cambio de distintas sociedades complejas prehispánicas en Latinoamérica, especialmente los denominados cacicazgos.

The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1013

The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology

The Routledge Handbook of Paleopathology provides readers with an overview of the study of ancient disease. The volume begins by exploring current methods and techniques employed by paleopathologists as means to highlight the range of data that can be generated, the types of questions that can be methodologically addressed, our current limitations, and goals for the future. Building on these foundations, the volume introduces a range of diseases and conditions that have been noted in the fossil, archaeological, and historical record, offering readers a foundational understanding of pathological conditions, along with their potential etiologies. Importantly, an evolutionary and highly context...

Serra da Capivara: A surpresa do século
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 277

Serra da Capivara: A surpresa do século

O livro Serra da Capivara: a surpresa do século fala sobre as descobertas do maior acervo de pinturas rupestres a céu aberto no mundo, desde a primeira fotografia mostrada a Niéde Guidon em 1963, passando pela criação de um parque nacional, até os anos 20 deste século, abrangendo mais de 60 anos de história. Apresenta a saga de Niéde Guidon, arqueóloga paulista que dedicou toda a sua vida à pesquisa sobre as pinturas rupestres e à luta pela preservação delas enquanto patrimônio cultural da Humanidade. Aborda também a polêmica internacional sobre a datação dos vestígios encontrados na Serra da Capivara resultarem em ser os mais antigos das Américas e propondo novas teorias sobre a chegada dos primeiros homens ao continente. E por fim, mostra no contexto atual como a população da Caatinga convive com as mudanças que tais descobertas trouxeram. O livro consegue reunir e ordenar as informações científicas, administrativas, políticas e sociais que compõem a narrativa histórica de nosso maior patrimônio arqueológico e cultural.

Magallania
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 346

Magallania

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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