A Field Guide For Virginia Archaeology And The Middle Atlantic Region In General

Author : Michael B. Barber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781884626463
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide for Virginia Archaeology (and the Middle Atlantic Region, in General) written by Michael B. Barber and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Barber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781533166739
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide for Virginia Archaeology (and the Middle Atlantic Region, in General) written by Michael Barber and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides guidelines and instructions on conducting archaeological fieldwork. Written with humor, the author tells you not only how to do the work of archaeology but also why the work needs to be done a certain way. Includes forms that can be reproduced for your own use and a list of recommended readings.

Author : Michael J. Gall
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319654
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic written by Michael J. Gall and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title New scholarship provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the Mid-Atlantic This groundbreaking volume explores the archaeology of African American life and cultures in the Upper Mid-Atlantic region, using sites dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. Sites in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York are all examined, highlighting the potential for historical archaeology to illuminate the often overlooked contributions and experiences of the region’s free and enslaved African American settlers. Archaeologies of African American Life in the Upper Mid-Atlantic brings together cutting-edge scholarship from both emerging and established scholars. Analyzing the research through sophisticated theoretical lenses and employing up-to-date methodologies, the essays reveal the diverse ways in which African Americans reacted to and resisted the challenges posed by life in a borderland between the North and South through the transition from slavery to freedom. In addition to extensive archival research, contributors synthesize the material finds of archaeological work in slave quarter sites, tenant farms, communities, and graveyards. Editors Michael J. Gall and Richard F. Veit have gathered new and nuanced perspectives on the important role free and enslaved African Americans played in the region’s cultural history. This collection provides scholars of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, African American studies, material culture studies, religious studies, slavery, the African diaspora, and historical archaeologists with a well-balanced array of rural archaeological sites that represent cultural traditions and developments among African Americans in the region. Collectively, these sites illustrate African Americans’ formation of fluid cultural and racial identities, communities, religious traditions, and modes of navigating complex cultural landscapes in the region under harsh and disenfranchising circumstances.

Author : Wm Jack Hranicky
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1627341102
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book PaleoAmerican Archaeology in Virginia written by Wm Jack Hranicky and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a full-color study of over 500 pre-Clovis stone artifacts of Virginia. With the 22K-year date of the Cinmar bipoint in Virginia, there is ample evidence of artifact classes that are older than Clovis. Over 50 tool types are illustrated and discussed. Artifact single-site collections are documented. The book argues the differences between Holocene biface technology with the blade and core technology of the Pleistocene era. The requirements for identifying Pleistocene artifacts is presented, such as platforms, remaining cortex, and invasive retouch. They are presented in a tool model. Major stones, namely jasper, are discussed as a lithic determinism. The east coast distribution is presented for various tool types. Additionally, as a major focus, cross-Atlantic flake/blade identical tools from Europe are illustrated with Middle Atlantic artifacts. Artifact ergonomics, such as right-left handed tools, hypothetical tool center, are argued. Structural and functional axis are shown and described on how to identify them on tools. Overall, this book presents an initiating view of the archaeology needed to study Pleistocene era artifacts on the American east coast.

Author : Gregory Denis Lattanzi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793619328
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity in the Middle Atlantic Region written by Gregory Denis Lattanzi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the prehistoric people of the Middle Atlantic region, copper held a fascination higher than rank, achievement, or status. Native copper artifacts, along with other exotic objects, were seen as a conduit or connection between the living and the dead and were used in burial. Other studies have viewed the use of such artifacts in burials as indicative of an individual’s status and rank, providing evidence for complex society. In Archaeology, Copper, and Complexity, Gregory Denis Lattanzi contends that such economic explanations should be rethought, arguing that the presence of highly exotic artifacts like copper beads and gorgets could be representative of the different mechanisms at play within prehistoric ideology, ceremonialism, and ritual.

Author : Heather A. Wholey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781442228757
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Middle Atlantic Prehistory written by Heather A. Wholey and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is comprised of individual chapters on topics foundational to the theory and practice of prehistoric archaeology in the Middle Atlantic region, but that also transcend regional scholarship and culture area research.

Author : Clarence R. Geier
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781541023482
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present written by Clarence R. Geier and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book includes six chapters that cover Virginia history from initial settlement through the 20th century plus one that deals with the important role of underwater archaeology. Written by prominent archaeologists with research experience in their respective topic areas, the chapters consider important issues of Virginia history and consider how the discipline of historic archaeology has addressed them and needs to address them . Changes in research strategy over time are discussed , and recommendations are made concerning the need to recognize the diverse and often differing roles and impacts that characterized the different regions of Virginia over the course of its historic past. Significant issues in Virginia history needing greater study are identified.

Author : Douglas C. McVarish
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Industrial Archaeology written by Douglas C. McVarish and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide provides the reader with basic information of the most common types of structures, sites, and objects encountered in North American industrial archaeology, including bridges, railroads, factories, water and power generating facilities, and others.

Author : Heather A. Wholey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442228768
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle Atlantic Prehistory written by Heather A. Wholey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional identities and practices are often debated in American archaeology, but Middle Atlantic prehistorians have largely refrained from such discussions, focusing instead on creating chronologies and studying socio-political evolution from the perspective of sub-regions. What is Middle Atlantic prehistoric archaeology? What are the questions and methods that identify our practice in this region or connect research in our region to larger anthropological themes? Middle Atlantic Prehistory: Foundations and Practice provides a basic survey of Middle Atlantic prehistoric archaeology and serves as an important reference for situating the development of Middle Atlantic prehistoric archaeology within the present context of culture area studies. This edited volume is a regional, historic overview of important themes, topics, and approaches in Middle Atlantic prehistory; covering major practical and theoretical debates and controversies in the region and in the discipline. Each chapter is holistic in its review of the historical development of a particular theme, in evaluating its contributions to current scholarship, and in proposing future directions for productive scholarly work. Contributing authors represent the full range of professional practice in archaeology and include university professors, cultural resources professionals, government regulatory/review archaeologists and museums curators with many years of practical and theoretical immersion in his/her chapter topic, and is highly regarded in the discipline and in the region for their expertise. Middle Atlantic Prehistory provides a much-needed synthesis and historical overview for academic and cultural resource archaeologists and independent scholars working in the Middle Atlantic region in particular.

Author : Wm Jack Hranicky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461506164
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lithic Technology in the Middle Potomac River Valley of Maryland and Virginia written by Wm Jack Hranicky and published by . This book was released on 2002-08-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: