The Eastern Archaic, Historicized (Issues In Eastern Woodlands Archaeology)
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- Synopsis
- 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, however that Archaic people routinely associated with other groups throughout eastern North America and expressed themselves materially in ways that reveal historical links to other places and times. Starting with the colonization of eastern North America by two distinct ancestral lines, the Eastern Archaic was an era of migrations, ethnogenesis, and coalescence—an 8,200-year era of making histories through interactions and expressing them culturally in ritual and performance.
- Copyright:
- 2015
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 295 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780759106802
- Publisher:
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 11/16/20
- Copyrighted By:
- AltaMira Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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