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  • Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay

    Colonoware in the African and Indigenous Diasporas of the Southeast

    Series series Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives
    An interdisciplinary excavation of colonoware as a material archive of African, Indigenous, and colonial entanglements across the early American South.In Materializing Colonial Identities in Clay, Jon Bernard Marcoux, Corey A. H. Sattes, and contributors examine colonoware to explore the active roles that African Americans and Indigenous people played in constructing southern colonial culture and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Pox, Empire, Shackles, and Hides

    The Townsend Site, 1670-1715

    Examines issues of culture contact and social identity by exploring how the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries played out in the daily lives of Cherokee households, especially those excavated at the Townsend site in eastern TennesseeThe late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries were an extremely turbulent time for southeastern American Indian groups. Indeed, between the founding ... Read more

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    Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

    The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an ... Read more

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  • Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions

    Series series Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology
    In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary ... Read more

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  • Feral Animals in the American South

    An Evolutionary History

    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    The relationship between humans and domestic animals has changed in dramatic ways over the ages, and those transitions have had profound consequences for all parties involved. As societies evolve, the selective pressures that shape domestic populations also change. Some animals retain close relationships with humans, but many do not. Those who establish residency in the wild, free from direct ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Eastern Archaic, Historicized

    Series series Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology
    The Eastern Archaic, Historicized offers an alternative perspective on the genesis and transformation of cultural diversity over eight millennia of hunter-gatherer dwelling in eastern North America. For many decades, archaeological understanding of Archaic diversity has been dominated by perspectives that emphasize localized relationships between humans and environment. The evidence, shows, ... Read more

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  • Archaeology of the Mississippian Culture

    A Research Guide

    First published in 1996. In recent years there has been a general increase of scholarly and popular interest in the study of ancient civilizations. Yet, because archaeologists and other scholars tend to approach their study of ancient peoples and places almost exclusively from their own disciplinary perspectives, there has long been a lack of general bibliographic and other research resources ... Read more

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  • Slavery before Race

    Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651-1884

    Series Book 4 - Early American Places
    The study of slavery in the Americas generally assumes a basic racial hierarchy: Africans or those of African descent are usually the slaves, and white people usually the slaveholders. In this unique interdisciplinary work of historical archaeology, anthropologist Katherine Hayes draws on years of fieldwork on Shelter Island’s Sylvester Manor to demonstrate how racial identity was constructed and ... Read more

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  • Connecticut's Indigenous Peoples

    What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures

    More than 10,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written records and scarce archaeological remains, these peoples and their communities have remained unknown to all but a few archaeologists and other scholars. This pioneering book is the first to provide a full account of Connecticut’s indigenous peoples, from the long ... Read more

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  • Middle Atlantic Prehistory

    Foundations and Practice

    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 ... Read more

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  • The Caddo Nation

    Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Perspectives

    Series series Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series
    First published in 1992 and now updated with a new preface by the author and a foreword by Thomas R. Hester, "The Caddo Nation" investigates the early contacts between the Caddoan peoples of the present-day Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas region and Europeans, including the Spanish, French, and some Euro-Americans.Perttula's study explores Caddoan cultural change from the perspectives of ... Read more

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  • Ecological Revolutions

    Nature, Gender, and Science in New England

    With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature all changed. This colonial ecological revolution held sway until the nineteenth century, when New England’s industrial production brought on a capitalist ... Read more

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