Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An EncyclopediaGuy E. Gibbon, Kenneth M. Ames Organized by major cultural areas, the Encyclopedia offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the cultures of continental North America and its early inhabitants, from Clovis big-game hunters of the Far West to the Thule sea mammal-hunting culture in Alaska. Written by experts, more than 800 entries explore each cultural area, its major social complexes, important archaeological sites, food resources, and pioneering archaeologists. Almost a fourth of the entries cover such special topics as tool types, archaeoastronomy, charmstones, shell money, fire use, nutting stone, bow and arrow, burial mounds, rock art, and much more.-- Comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the early cultures of North America-- More than 800 entries by regionaland topical specialists-- Maps and pictures illustrate culture areas, sites, and artifacts-- A comprehensive index offers immediate access to every subject |
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Alaska American Antiquity American Archaeology Anasazi Anthropology Archaeological Survey Archaeology Arctic Arizona artifacts assemblages associated Basin bifaces bison bone British Columbia burial California Canyon Cave Center central ceramics chaeological Chartkoff chert Clovis Coast Colorado complex County Creek culture area Department of Anthropology Eastern Woodlands edited editor evidence excavations flakes Folsom Fort Ancient Fraser River Further Readings groups Guy Gibbon Hell Gap historic Hohokam Holocene Hopewell hunting Illinois Indian Island kivas Lake Late Archaic Late Prehistoric lithic located maize ment Mexico microblade midden Mississippian Missouri Mogollon Mogollon Culture mounds Mountain Museum North America northern Northwest occupation Ohio Paleoindian Patayan pattern period phase pithouses pits Plains Plateau Pleistocene population pottery Prehistoric projectile points Pueblo radiocarbon dates region Research scrapers sequence settlement shell Smithsonian Institution Society southern Southwest Southwestern stone structures tion tradition types University Utah villages Washington western Woodland period