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1 online resource (xvii, 219 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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The anthropology of Pacific North America |
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Anthropology of Pacific North America.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Archaeology of the Plateau Region of Northwestern North America-Approaches to the Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers. William C. Prentiss and Ian Kuijt ; I. Chronology and Materials in Plateau Archaeology; 1. A Culture Historic Synthesis and Changes in Human Mobility, Sedentism, Subsistence, Settlement, and Population on the Canadian Plateau, 7000-200 BP. Mike K. Rousseau; 2. Materials and Contexts for a Culture History of the Columbia Plateau. William Andrefsky Jr |
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3. Cultural Complexity: A New Chronology of the Upper Columbia Drainage Area. Nathan B. Goodale, William C. Prentiss, and Ian Kuijt4. The Evolution of Collector Systems on the Canadian Plateau. William C. Prentiss and Ian Kuijt; II. Households, Social Complexity, and the Formation of Aggregate Hunter-Gatherer Communities; 5. Safety in Numbers:The Influence of the Bow and Arrow on Village Formation on the Columbia Plateau. James C. Chatters; 6. Ritual Structures in Transegalitarian Communities. Brian Hayden and Ron Adams; 7. Fraser Valley Trade and Prestige as Seen from Scowlitz. Michael Blake |
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III. Social Organization, Plant Resources, and the Abandonment of Pithouse Villages8. A Question of Intensity: Exploring the Role of Plant Foods in Northern Plateau Prehistory. Dana Lepofsky and Sandra L. Peacock; 9. The Social Dimensions of Roasting Pits in a Winter Village Site. Brian Hayden and Sara Mossop Cousins; 10. Villages on the Edge: Pithouses, Cultural Change, and the Abandonment of Aggregate Pithouse Villages. Ian Kuijt and William C. Prentiss; IV. Discussion and Implications |
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11. A Transcontinental Perspective on the Evolution of Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways on the Plateau: Discussion and Reflection. Jeanne E. ArnoldReferences Cited; Contributors; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-208) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Paleo-Indians -- Hunting -- Columbia Plateau
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Paleo-Indians -- Hunting -- Canada, Western
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Hunting and gathering societies -- Columbia Plateau
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Hunting and gathering societies -- Canada, Western
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Pacific Northwest (OR, Wash.)
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Antiquities
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Hunting and gathering societies
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Paleo-Indians -- Hunting
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Columbia Plateau -- Antiquities
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Canada, Western -- Antiquities
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| Subject |
Western Canada
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United States -- Columbia Plateau
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Prentiss, William C., 1960-
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Kuijt, Ian.
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| ISBN |
9781607817932 |
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1607817934 |
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