Handbook of North American Indians: Environment, origins and populationWilliam C. Sturtevant Smithsonian Institution, 1978 - 1146 páginas Environment, Origins, and Population covers the natural environment of the continent to which Indian cultures adapted in prehistoric and historic times, natural resources utilized by these cultures, current knowledge of the earliest Indian occupation (before 9,000 B.C.), and the human biology of Indian and Eskimo populations, prehistoric, historic, and modern. There are 73 chapters written by 96 scholars from leading academic institutions and research firms. The volume is heavily referenced with a bibliography of 9,600 entries and a detailed index. |
Índice
Introduction 292 Southwest Plants | 293 |
Native Views of Origins 313 Southwest Animals | 331 |
Climate and Biota of Western North America | 388 |
Página de créditos | |
Otras 17 secciones no se muestran.
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Handbook of North American Indians: History of Indian-White relations William C. Sturtevant Vista de fragmentos - 1988 |
Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 2: Indians in Contemporary Society William C. Sturtevant Vista de fragmentos - 1978 |
Términos y frases comunes
abundant Alaska Anasazi animals Arctic areas Arizona artifacts assemblages associated Basin beans Beringia bifaces birds bison bone C.V. Haynes California caribou Cave central climate Clovis Clovis points coastal Colorado common complex Creek crops cultigens cultural deer deglaciated deposits dogs domesticated early eastern Eskimo evidence extinct faunal fish flakes fluted points Folsom forest Frison glacial Lake groups harvesting Hohokam Holocene Hrdlička human hunting important Indian Island landscape Last Glacial Maximum Late Pleistocene Laurentide ice sheet lobe maize mammals mammoth margin mastodon Mexico microblade Mogollon moraine Mountains Native American North America northern Northwest Coast occupation Paleo-Indian Paleo-Indian sites patterns period Photograph Plains plants Plateau populations prehistoric projectile points pronghorn Pueblo radiocarbon dates range recovered region remains Rockshelter samples seeds skeletal Southeast southern Southwest species squash stone subsistence suggest tion tradition turkey western wild Wisconsin Woodland Younger Dryas