America Before the European InvasionsLongman, 2002 - 259 من الصفحات Beginning with the immigrants from Asia, through inventions of agriculture, cities and kingdoms, American First Nations are integral to the history of the United States. They explored the continent, pioneered its waterways and mountain passes, cleared forests, irrigated deserts, and ranched its great plains. Invading Europeans justifies their conquests by denying the evidence of American Indian civilisations. Using her familiarity with the archaeological remains and remnants, Alice Kehoe builds a fascinating prehistory, highlighting the research puzzles along the way. This book presents an enthralling look at the depth and diversity of American history - before the Europeans and the deadly epidemics they brought with them decimated whole nations. |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-3 من 50
... cultural materialists ” claiming that technology strongly molds culture , " ecological determinists " convinced that climate changes explain cultural changes , postmodern archaeologists sure that knowledge is so tentative we may as well ...
... cultural changes as " natural " responses to climate shifts , and apparent institutional innovations such as towns as inevitable concomitants of population increase . In one word , American archaeologists have tended toward a provincial ...
... Cultural resource management archaeology created practical prob- lems paralleling the shift in anthropological assumptions . Surveying and testing an area defined by development plans rather than by a research question , archaeologists ...
المحتوى
First Americans | 8 |
70001000 BCE | 23 |
Nuclear America | 42 |
حقوق النشر | |
11 من الأقسام الأخرى غير ظاهرة