Archaeology and World Religion

Libro editado por Timothy Insoll (2001)

Contenido general:

1 Introduction: the archaeology of world religion
TIMOTHY INSOLL
Definitions and objectives
An approach to the archaeology of world religion?
Negative approaches to archaeology and world religion
Positive approaches to archaeology and world religion
The individual chapters
References

2 The archaeology of Hinduism
DILIP CHAKRABARTI

3 The archaeology of Buddhism
ROBIN CONINGHAM

4 The archaeology of Judaism
RACHEL HACHLILI

5 The archaeology of Islam
TIMOTHY INSOLL

6 The archaeology of Christianity in global perspective
PAUL LANE

7 Ethics and the archaeology of world religions
ANDERS BERGQUIST

8 Gender in the archaeology of world religion?
RACHEL MACLEAN

9 Death, being, and time: the historical context
of the world religions
MIKE PARKER PEARSON

The Archaeology of Identities: A Reader

Libro editado por Timothy Insoll (2007)

Contenido:

1 Introduction: configuring identities in archaeology
TIMOTHY INSOLL

PART I
General perspectives, ethnicity, and nationalism

An introduction
TIMOTHY INSOLL
2 Archaeologies of identity
LYNN MESKELL
3 Discourses of identity in the interpretation of the past
SIÂN JONES
4 The politics of identity in archaeology
MICHAEL ROWLANDS

PART II
Gender and age

An introduction
TIMOTHY INSOLL
5 Girling the girl and boying the boy: the production of adulthood in ancient Mesoamerica
ROSEMARY A. JOYCE
6 Engendering children, engendering archaeology
JOANNA SOFAER
7 The constitution of archaeological evidence: gender politics and science
ALISON WYLIE

PART III
Sexuality

An introduction
TIMOTHY INSOLL
8 Feminisms, queer theories, and the archaeological study of past sexualities
BARBARA L. VOSS
9 Faience goddesses and ivory bull-leapers: the aesthetics of sexual difference at Late Bronze Age Knossos
BENJAMIN ALBERTI
10 Beyond Mother Earth and Father Sky: sex and gender in Ancient Southwestern visual arts and ethnography
KELLEY HAYS-GILPIN

PART IV
The body

An introduction
TIMOTHY INSOLL
11 Accessing the inaccessible: disability and archaeology
MORAG CROSS
12 Hidden or overlooked? Where are the disadvantaged in the skeletal record?
TONY WALDRON
13 Archaeology’s humanism and the materiality of the body
JULIAN THOMAS

PART V
Class, caste, ideology, and religion

An introduction
TIMOTHY INSOLL
14 Archaeology and the invisible man: the role of slavery in the production of wealth and social class in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, 1820 to 1870
SUSAN C. ANDREWS AND JAMES P. FENTON
15 The archaeological visibility of caste: an introduction
ROBIN CONINGHAM AND RUTH YOUNG
16 Huitzilopochtli’s conquest: Aztec ideology in the archaeological record
ELIZABETH M. BRUMFIEL
17 Ritual and rationality: some problems of interpretation in European archaeology
JOANNA BRÜCK
18 Changing identities in the Arabian Gulf: archaeology, religion, and ethnicity in context
TIMOTHY INSOLL

The Perception of the Environment

Essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill

Libro realizado por Tim Ingold (2000)

Contenido:

PART I: LIVELIHOOD

Introduction to PART I
Chapter One: Culture, nature, environment: steps to an ecology of life
Chapter Two: The optimal forager and economic man
Chapter Three: Hunting and gathering as ways of perceiving the environment
Chapter Four: From trust to domination: an alternative history of human–animal relations
Chapter Five: Making things, growing plants, raising animals and bringing up children
Chapter Six: A circumpolar night’s dream
Chapter Seven: Totemism, animism and the depiction of animals
Chapter Eight: Ancestry, generation, substance, memory, land

PART II: DWELLING

Introduction to PART II
Chapter Nine: Culture, perception and cognition
Chapter Ten: Building, dwelling, living: how animals and people make themselves at home in the world
Chapter Eleven: The temporality of the landscape
Chapter Twelve: Globes and spheres: the topology of environmentalism
Chapter Thirteen: To journey along a way of life: maps, wayfinding and navigation
Chapter Fourteen: Stop, look and listen! Vision, hearing and human movement

PART III: SKILL

Introduction to PART III
Chapter Fifteen: Tools, minds and machines: an excursion in the philosophy of technology
Chapter Sixteen: Society, nature and the concept of technology
Chapter Seventeen: Work, time and industry
Chapter Eighteen: On weaving a basket
Chapter Nineteen: Of string bags and birds’ nests: skill and the construction of artefacts
Chapter Twenty: The dynamics of technical change
Chapter Twenty-one: ‘People like us’: the concept of the anatomically modern human
Chapter Twenty-two: Speech, writing and the modern origins of ‘language origins’
Chapter Twenty-three: The poetics of tool-use: from technology, language and intelligence
to craft, song and imagination

Key Debates in Anthropology

Libro editado por Tim Ingold (1996)

General introduction
Tim Ingold

1988 debate Social anthropology is a generalizing science or it is nothing
Introduction
Tim Ingold

Part I The presentations
Part II The debate

1989 debate The concept of society is theoretically obsolete
Introduction
Tim Ingold

Part I The presentations
Part II The debate

1990 debate Human worlds are culturally constructed
Introduction
Roy Ellen

Part I The presentations
Part II The debate

1991 debate Language is the essence of culture
Introduction
Tim Ingold

Part I The presentations
Part II The debate

1992 debate The past is a foreign country
Introduction
Tim Ingold

Part I The presentations
Part II The debate

1993 debate Aesthetics is a cross-cultural category
Introduction
James F.Weiner

Part I The presentations
Part II The debate

Style and Function

Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology

Libro editado por Teresa D. Hurt y Gordon F. M. Rakita (2001)

Contenido:

Foreword by Robert C. Dunnell

Preface

1. Style and Function: An Introduction
Michael J. O’Brien and Robert D. Leonard
2. Differential Persistence of What? The Scale of Selection Issue in Evolutionary Archaeology
Hector Neff
3. Directionality, Function, and Adaptation in the Archaeological Record
Timothy D. Maxwell
4. Explaining the Co-occurrence of Traits in the Archaeological Record: A Further Consideration of Replicative Success
Teresa D. Hurt, Todd L. VanPool, Gordon F. M. Rakita, and Robert D. Leonard
5. Culture Historical and Biological Approaches to Identifying Homologous Traits
R. Lee Lyman
6. Neutrality, ‘‘Style,’’ and Drift: Building Methods for Studying Cultural Transmission in the Archaeological Record
Carl Lipo and Mark Madsen
7. Style, Function, and Variation: Identifying the Evolutionary Importance of Traits in the Archaeological Record
Todd L. VanPool
8. A Million Years of Style and Function: Regional and Temporal Variation in Acheulean Handaxes
C. David Vaughan
9. Implications of New Studies of Hawaiian Fishhook Variability for Our Understanding of Polynesian Settlement History
Michael T. Pfeffer
10. Style, Function, and Systematic Empiricism: The Conflation of Process and Pattern
Ethan E. Cochrane

FORENSIC ARCHAEOLOGY: ADVANCES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

Libro publicado por John Hunter and Margaret Cox (2005)

Contenido:

1 Introduction
2 Search and location: case studies 1–13
3 Forensic geophysical survey
Paul Cheetham
4 The recovery of forensic evidence from individual graves: case studies 14–29
5 The archaeology of mass graves
R. Wright, I. Hanson and J. Sterenberg
6 Anthropology in a forensic context
Tal Simmons and William D. Haglund
7 Legal matters
Robert Dilley
8 Social and intellectual frameworks

Archaeological Surveying and Mapping

Recording and depicting the landscape

Libro de Phil Howard (2007)

Contenido:

1 The science and profession of surveying
2 The aims of an archaeological survey
3 Basic methods of surveying
4 Control surveying
5 Application of surveying instruments
6 Surveying on a global scale
7 Using CAD software
8 GIS in archaeological mapping
9 The shape of the ground
10 Sources of digital map data
11 The Butter Market, Barnard Castle, County Durham
12 The Boeotia field survey project
13 A survey of an earthwork feature on Cockfield Fell, County Durham
14 Durham City
15 Terrain model of Lomello
16 Sandoval County, New Mexico

Paleodemography: age distributions from skeletal samples

Libro editado por Robert D. Hoppa y James W. Vaupel (2002)

Contenido

1 The Rostock Manifesto for paleodemography: the way fromstage to age
Robert D. Hoppa y James W. Vaupel
2 Paleodemography: looking back and thinking ahead
Robert D. Hoppa
3 Reference samples: the first step in linking biology and age in the human skeleton
Bethany M. Usher
4 Aging through the ages: historical perspectives on age indicator methods
Ariane Kemkes-Grottenthaler
5 Transition analysis: a new method for estimating age fromskeletons
J. L. Boldsen, George R. Milner, Lyle W. Konigsberg, and James W. Wood
6 Age estimation by tooth cementum annulation: perspectives of a new validation study
Ursula Wittwer-Backofen and Helene Buba
7 Mortality models for paleodemography
James W. Wood, Darryl J. Holman, Kathleen A. O´Connor, and Rebecca J. Ferrell
8 Linking age-at-death distributions and ancient population dynamics: a case study
Richard R. Paine and Jesper L. Boldsen
9 A solution to the problem of obtaining a mortality schedule for paleodemographic data
Bradley Love and Hans-Georg Müller
10 Estimating age-at-death distributions from skeletal samples: a multivariate latent-trait approach
Darryl J. Holman, James W. Wood, and Kathleen A. O´Connor
11 Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation of hazard model parameters in paleodemography
Lyle W. Konigsberg and Nicholas P. Herrmann
12 A re-examination of the age-at-death distribution of Indian Knoll

Nicholas P. Herrmann and Lyle W. Konigsberg

Soils in Archaeological Research

Libro realizado por Vance T. Holliday (2004)

Contenido:

1 Introduction

2 Terminology and Methodology
3 Conceptual Approaches to Pedogenesis
4 Soil Surveys and Archaeology
5 Soil Stratigraphy
6 Soil Stratigraphy in Geoarchaeological Contexts
7 Soils and Time
8 Soils and Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions
9 Soils and Landscape Evolution
10 Soil Genesis and Site-Formation Processes
11 Human Impacts on Soils

Appendix 1: Variations on U.S. Department of Agriculture Field Nomenclature

Appendix 2: Soil Phosphorus: Chemistry, Analytical Methods, and Chronosequences

Appendix 3: Variability of Soil Laboratory Procedures and Results
with Julie K. Stein and William G. Gartner

Crossing the Borders

New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean

Libro editado por Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L. P. Hoogland y Annelou L. van Gijn (2008)

Contenido:

1. Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries and National Borders: New Methods and Techniques in the Study of Archaeological Materials from the Caribbean.
Corinne L. Hofman, Menno L. P. Hoogland, and Annelou L. van Gijn

PART I. PROVENANCE STUDIES

2. In Tuneful Threefold: Combining Conventional Archaeological Methods, Archaeometric Techniques, and Ethnoarchaeological Research in the Study of Precolonial Pottery of the Caribbean
Corinne L. Hofman, A. J. Daan Isendoorn, Mathijs A. Booden, and Loe F. H. C. Jacobs
3. American Gold and European Brass: Metal Objects and Indigenous Values in the Cemetery of El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba
Jago Cooper, Marcos Martinón- Torres, and Roberto Valcárcel Rojas
4. Chert Sourcing in the Northern Lesser Antilles: The Use of Geochemical Techniques in Discriminating Chert Materials
Sebastiaan Knippenberg and Johannes J. P. Zijlstra

PART I I. FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF ARTIFACTS

5. A New Material to View the Past: Dental Alginate Molds of Friable Artifacts
Charlene Dixon Hutcheson
6. Saladoid Lapidary Technology: New Methods for Investigating Stone Bead Drilling Techniques
Christy de Mille, Tamara Varney, and Michael Turney
7. Lithic Technology: A Way to More Complex Diversity in Caribbean Archaeology
Benoît Bérard
8. Tool Use and Technological Choices: An Integral Approach toward Functional Analysis of Caribbean Tool Assemblages
Annelou L. van Gijn, Yvonne Lammers- Keijsers, and Iris Briels
9. Understanding the Function of Coral Tools from Anse à la Gourde: An Experimental Approach
Harold J. Kelly and Annelou L. van Gijn
10. The Signifi cance of Wear and Residue Studies: An Example from Plum Piece, Saba
Channah J. Nieuwenhuis
11. Starch Residues on Lithic Artifacts from Two Contrasting Contexts in Northwestern Puerto Rico: Los Muertos Cave and Vega de Nelo Vargas Farmstead
Jaime R. Pagán Jiménez and José R. Oliver
12. The Burén in Precolonial Cuban Archaeology: New Information Regarding the Use of Plants and Ceramic Griddles during the Late Ceramic Age of Eastern Cuba Gathered through Starch Analysis
Roberto Rodríguez Suárez and Jaime R. Pagán Jiménez

PART I I I. NEW TRENDS IN PALEOBOTANICAL AND PALEO- OSTEOLOGICAL RESEARCH

13. Caribbean Paleoethnobotany: Present Status and New Horizons (Understanding the Evolution of an Indigenous Ethnobotany)
Lee A. Newsom
14. New Evidence of Two Different Migratory Waves in the Circum- Caribbean Area during the Pre- Columbian Period from the Analysis of Dental Morphological Traits
Alfredo Coppa, Andrea Cucina, Menno L. P. Hoogland, Michaela Lucci, Fernando Luna Calderón, Raphaël G. A. M. Panhuysen, Glenis Tavarez María, Roberto Valcárcel Rojas, and Rita Vargiu
15. Tracing Human Mobility with 87Sr/86Sr at Anse à la Gourde, Guadeloupe Mathijs A. Booden, Raphaël G. A. M. Panhuysen, Menno L. P. Hoogland, Hylke N. de Jong, Gareth R. Davies, and Corinne L. Hofman
16. Epilogue: The Correct Answer Requires the Right Question (and the Technology to Back It Up)
William F. Keegan

OBRAS COMPLETAS Y CORRESPONDENCIA CIENTÍFICA DE FLORENTINO AMEGHINO (VOLUMEN III)

Tomo Tercero de la obra completa y correspondencia centífica de Florentino Ameghino, dirigida por Alfredo J. Torcelli y publicada en La Plata en 1911

Indice:

LIBRO PRIMERO

Los indígenas de América, su antigüedad y origen

CAPITULOS I A V
Los indígenas de América, su antigüedad y origen

LIBRO SEGUNDO

Épocas neolítica y mesolítica

CAPITULO VI
Instrumentos de piedra de la provincia Buenos Aires

CAPITULO CAPITULO VII
Alfarerías de la provincia Buenos Aires

CAPITULO VIII
Observaciones generales a propósito de las antigüedades indias de la provincia Buenos Aires

CAPITULO IX
Un pueblo de los túmulos

CAPITULOS X Y XI
Antigüedades indias de la Banda Oriental

CAPITULO XII
El hombre prehistórico en Patagonia

CAPITULO XIII
El hombre prehistórico en el interior de la República

CAPITULO XIV
Época mesolítica en la provincia Buenos Aires

CAPITULO XV
Paradero mesolítico de Cañada Rocha (Conclusión)

LIBRO TERCERO
Estudio sobre los terrenos de transporte de la cuenca del Plata

CAPITULO XVI
Formación terciaría

CAPITULO XVII
Formación postpampeana. Aluviones modernos

CAPITULO XVIII
Formación postpampeana. Depósitos cuaternarios de agua dulce

CAPITULO XIX
Época postpampeana. Formación cuaternaria marina

CAPITULO XX
La formación pampeana

CAPITULO XXI
Hipótesis emitidas sobre el origen de la formación pampeana

CAPITULO XXII
Mi opinión sobre las causas que han producido la formación pampeana

CAPITULOS XXIII Y XXIV
Estudio de los diferentes fenómenos y manifestaciones que presenta el terreno pampeano

CAPITULO XXV
Los fósiles

CAPITULO XXVI
Mamíferos fósiles del terreno pampeano

CAPITULO XXVII
Cronología paleontológica

CAPITULO XXVIII
Antigüedad geológica de la formación pampeana

LIBRO CUARTO
El hombre en la formación pampeana

CAPITULO XXIX
Datos históricos sobre el descubrimiento del hombre fósil argentino

CAPITULO XXX
Pruebas materiales de la coexistencia del hombre con los mamíferos extinguidos del terreno pampeano

CAPITULO XXXI
Época de los grandes lagos

CAPITULO XXXII
Tiempos pampeanos modernos

CAPITULO XXXIII
El hombre de la época pampeana (Conclusión)

OBRAS COMPLETAS Y CORRESPONDENCIA CIENTÍFICA DE FLORENTINO AMEGHINO (VOLUMEN II)

Tomo segundo de la obra completa y correspondencia centífica de Florentino Ameghino, dirigida por Alfredo J. Torcelli y publicada en La Plata en 1911

ÍNDICE

I. — Nouveaux débris de l'homme et de son industrie mélés a des osements d'animaux quaternaires recueillis auprés de Mercedes (République Argentine) (con texto castellano al frente)
II. — Ensayos para servir de base a un estudio de la formación pampeana
III. — Notas sobre algunos fósiles nuevos de la formación pampeana
IV. — El hombre cuaternario en la Pampa
V. — Diario de un naturalista
VI. — Ensayos de un estudio de los terrenos de transporte cuaternarios de la provincia Buenos Aires
VII. — El hombre fósil argentino
VIII. — Noticias sobre antigüedades indias de la Banda Oriental
IX. — L'homme préhistorique dans le bassin de la Plata (con texto castellano al frente)
X. — The man of the pampean formation (con texto castellano al frente)
XI. — Catalogue spécial de la Section Anthropologique et Paléontologique
de la République Argentine a L'Exposition de París (1878) (con texto castellano al frente)
XII.— L'homme préhistorique dans la Plata (con texto castellano al frente)
XIII. — Inscripciones antecolombinas encontradas en la República Argentina
XIV. — La plus haute antiquité de l'homme en Amérique (con texto castellano al frente)
XV. Armes et instruments de l'homme préhistorique des Pampas (con texto castellano al frente)
XVI.- Les mammiféres fossiles de l'Amérique du Sud (con texto castellano al frente)
XVII. — La formación pampeana (suprimido)
XVI II. — Sur quelques excursions aux carrieres de Chelles. Superposition du Moustérien au Chélleen et du Robenhausien au Moustérien (con texto castellano al frente)
XIX. -- Nouvelles recherches sur le gisement de Chelles (con texto castellano al frente)
XX. — Recherches sur le gisement de Chelles (con texto castellano al frente)
XXI.—Étude ser le gisement de Chelles (con texto castellano al tiente».
XXII. — Le quaternaire de Chelles
XXIII. —Taquigrafía Ameghino: nuevo sistema de escritura, único que permite seguir la palabra del orador más rápido

Reading the past

Current approaches to interpretation in archaeology

Libro publicado por Ian Hodder y Scott Hutson (tercera edición - 2003)

Contenido:

Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the third edition

1 The problem
Cultural meanings and context
Individuals and agents
Historical context
Conclusion

2 Processual and systems approaches
A materialist approach to culture?
Agency
History and time
Behavioural archaeology
Measuring and predicting mind: cognitive processual archaeology
Neo-evolutionary archaeology and mind
Conclusion

3 Structuralist, post-structuralist and semiotic archaeologies
Formal analysis and generative grammars
Structuralist analysis
Critique
Post-structuralism
Verification
Conclusion: the importance of structuralist archaeology

4 Marxism and ideology
Marxist archaeology
Ideology
Ideology and power: conclusions

5 Agency and practice
Practice and structuration
Resistance
Agency

6 Embodied archaeology
Materiality and malleability
From an archaeology of the body to embodiment
The limits of the body
Conclusion

7 Archaeology and history
History of the long term
Historical theory and method: Collingwood
Some examples
Conclusion and critique

8 Contextual archaeology
Meaning and understanding
Meaning in archaeology
Reading material culture
Context
Similarities and differences
Relevant dimensions of variation
Definition of context
Explanation and description
Critical hermeneutics
Conclusion

9 Post-processual archaeology
Variability and materiality
Process and structure
Historical meaning content: the ideal and the material
Archaeology and society
Conclusion

10Conclusion: archaeology as archaeology
Testing interpretations
Archaeology and its distinctive role

THEORY AND PRACTICE IN ARCHAEOLOGY

Libro publicado por Ian Hodder (1992)

Contenido:

1 THEORY, PRACTICE AND PRAXIS

PART I
Symbolic and structural archaeology

2 SYMBOLISM, MEANING AND CONTEXT
3 SYMBOLS IN ACTION
4 BURIALS, HOUSES, WOMEN AND MEN IN THE EUROPEAN NEOLITHIC

PART II
Some implications of the new ideas

5 POST-PROCESSUAL ARCHAEOLOGY
6 THEORETICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: A REACTIONARY VIEW
7 ARCHAEOLOGY IN 1984
8 POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY IN THE WORLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS 1986

PART III
Debate and re-evaluation

9 THE PROCESSUAL REACTION
10 TOWARDS RADICAL DOUBT: A DIALOGUE
11 THE POST-PROCESSUAL REACTION
12 TOWARDS A COHERENT ARCHAEOLOGY

PART IV
Practising archaeology

13 INTERPRETIVE ARCHAEOLOGY AND ITS ROLE
14 MATERIAL PRACTICE, SYMBOLISM AND IDEOLOGY
15 THE HADDENHAM CAUSEWAYED ENCLOSURE—A HERMENEUTIC CIRCLE
16 THE DOMESTICATION OF EUROPE
17 GENDER REPRESENTATION AND SOCIAL REALITY
18 WRITING ARCHAEOLOGY: SITE REPORTS IN CONTEXT
19 ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE POST-MODERN

Archaeological Theory Today

Libro editado por Ian Hodder (2001)

Contenido:

1. Introduction: A Review of Contemporary Theorectical Debates in Archaeology
Ian Hodder

2. Behavioral Archaeology: Toward a New Synthesis
Vincent M. LaMotta and Michael B. Schiffer

3. Evolutionary Archaeology
Robert D. Leonard

4. Archaeological Theory and Theories of Cognitive Evolution.
Steven Mithen

5. Symbol before Concept: Material Engagement and the Early Development of Society
Colin Renfrew

6. Agency, the Duality of Structure, and the Problem of the Archaeological Record
John C. Barrett

7. Archaeologies of Place and Landscape
Julian Thomas

8. Archaeologies of Identity
Lynn Meskell

9. American Material Culture in Mind, Thought, and Deed.
Anne Yentsch and Mary C. Beaudry

10. Postcolonial Archaeology: Issues of Culture, Identity, and Knowledge
Chris Gosden

11. Archaeological Representation: The Visual Conventions for Constructing Knowledge about the Past
Stephanie Moser

12. Culture/Archaeology: The Dispersion of a Discipline and its Objects
Michael Shanks

ICE AGE SOUTHERN ANDES

A CHRONICLE OF PALEOECOLOGICAL EVENTS

Libro publicado por C. J. Heusser (2003)

Contenido:

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Backdrop of botanical exploration

Chapter 3 Physical setting
3.1 South America, Southern Ocean, and Antarctica. Their Position in the Southern Hemisphere
3.2 Andean Cordillera
3.2.1 Glaciers and Icefields
3.3 Valle Central
3.4 Cordillera de la Costa
3.4.1 Plate Tectonics
3.4.2 Seismic Activity
3.5 Continental Shelf

Chapter 4 Climate
4.1 General Characteristics
4.2 Climate Controls

Chapter 5 Glaciation
5.1 Late Tertiary-Pleistocene
5.2 Last Glaciation
5.2.1 Regi6n de los Lagos-Isla Grande de Chiloé
5.2.2 Fuego-Patagonia
5.3 Lateglacial
5.4 Present Interglaciation: Holocene
5.4.1 Glaciar San Rafael: A Case History of Holocene Glacier Variations
5.5 Glacier Models and Paleoclimate

Chapter 6 Land-sea level variations

Chapter 7 Volcanism
7.1 Fuego-Patagonia
7.2 Peninsula de Taitao-Archipi61ago de los Chonos-Adjacent Andes
7.3 Región de los Lagos
7.4 Settlement Volcanic Activity

Chapter 8 Vegetation
8.1 Chilean Plant Formations
8.1.1 Thorn Shrub-Succulent Vegetation (Espinal)
8.1.2 Broad Sclerophyllous Woodland (Matorral)
8.1.3 Lowland Deciduous Beech Forest
8.1.4 Valdivian Evergreen Forest
8.1.5 North Patagonian Evergreen Forest
8.1.6 Subantarctic Evergreen Forest-Magellanic Moorland
8.1.7 Subantarctic Deciduous Beech Forest
8.1.8 Subtropical Xerophytic High Andean Vegetation-Andean Tundra
8.1.9 Fuego-Patagonian Steppe
8.2 Argentine Plant Formations
8.2.1 Subantarctic Province
8.2.2 Patagonian Province
8.2.3 Monte Province
8.2.4 High Andean Province
8.2.5 Puna Province
8.3 Community Distribution and Dynamics

Chapter 9 Man, megafauna, and fire

Chapter 10 Research methods: approach to the problem of paleoenvironmental reconstruction
10.1 Field
10.2 Laboratory
10.3 Pollen and Spore Morphology

Chapter 11 Pollen fallout reflective of vegetation during latest centuries: presettlement and settlement
11.1 Presettlement
11.1.1 Thorn-Shrub Succulent Vegetation
11.1.2 Broad Sclerophyllous Woodland
11.1.3 Lowland Deciduous Beech Forest-Valdivian Evergreen Forest
11.1.4 Valdivian Evergreen Forest
11.1.5 North Patagonian Evergreen Forest
11.1.6 Subantarctic Deciduous Beech Forest-Subantarctic Evergreen Forest-Fuego-Patagonian Steppe
11.1.7 Pollen Fallout in the Araucaria District of Argentina and Downslope to the Atlantic Ocean
11.2 Settlement

Chapter 12 Paleoecological sites, cores, and pollen/spore diagrams
12.1 Northern Valle Central
12.1.1 Laguna de Tagua Tagua (34.48° S, 71.15°W)
12.2 Región de los Lagos
12.2.1 Rucafiancu (39.55° S, 72.30° W)
12.2.2 Fundo Llanquihue (41.23° S, 73.06° W)
12.2.3 Fundo Nueva Braunau (40.29° S, 73.08° W)
12.2.4 Alerce (41.39° S, 72.88° W)
12.3 Isla Grande de Chiloé
12.3.1 Taiquem6 (42.17° S, 76.60° W)
12.3.2 Dalcahue (42.34° S, 73.76° W)
12.3.3 Mayol (42.64° S, 73.76° W)
12.4 Chiloé Continental
12.4.1 Cuesta Moraga (43.42° S, 72.38° W)
12.5 Southern Patagonia
12.5.1 Torres del Paine (50.98° S, 72.67° W)
12.5.2 Punta Arenas (53.15° S, 70.95° W)
12.5.3 Puerto del Hambre (53.61° S, 70.93° W)
12.6 Fuegia
12.6.1 Bahía Inutil (53.45° S, 70.10° W)
12.6.2 Onamonte (53.90° S, 68.95° W)
12.6.3 Lago Fagnano (54.57° S, 67.62° W)
12.6.4 Cabo San Pablo (54.30° S, 66.75° W)
12.6.5 Puerto Harberton (54.87° S, 67.88° W)
12.6.6 Caleta Róbalo (54.93° S, 67.63° W)
12.6.7 Ushuaia (54.80° S, 68.38° W)
12.6.8 Bahía Moat (54.90° S, 66.73° W)

Chapter 13 Ice age Southern Andes
13.1 Vegetation and Paleoclimate
13.2 Beetle (Coleoptera) and Pollen Evidence for Fullglacial-Lateglacial Climatic Change
13.3 Plant Migration
13.4 Relict Communities and Refugia
13.5 Correlative Marine-Land Stratigraphies

Chapter 14 Global connections
14.1 New Zealand-Tasmania
14.2 Southern Ocean-Antarctica
14.3 Europe-North Atlantic-North America
14.4 Overview

GEOLOGICAL METHODS FOR ARCHAEOLOGY

Libro de Norman Herz y Ervan G. Garrison (1998)

Contenido:

Foreword

1 The Scope of Archaeological Geology

Part I The Archeological Site and Its Environment

2 Geomorphology in Archaeology
3 Sediments and Soils

Part II Dating Techniques

4 Chemical Methods
5 Radioactive Methods
6 Radiation-Damage, Cosmogenic, and Atom-Counting Methods
7 Other Chronological Methods

Part III Site Exploration

8 Archaeogeophysical Exploration
9 Soil Phosphate in Archaeological Surveys

Part IV Artifact Analysis

10 Archaeological Materials: Rocks and Minerals
11 Instrumental Analytical Techniques
12 Metallic Minerals and Archaeological Geology
13 Ceramics
14 Applications of Stable Isotopes in Archaeological Geology

Human Biologists in the Archives

Demography, Health, Nutrition and Genetics in Historical Populations

Libro editado por D. Ann Herring y Alan C. Swedlund (2003)

Contenido:

Foreword
Sydel Silverman and Michael A. Little xi

1 Human biologists in the archives: demography, health, nutrition and genetics in historical populations
ALAN C. SWEDLUND and D. ANN HERRING

2 The use of archives in the study of microevolution: changing demography and epidemiology in Escaz´u, Costa Rica
LORENA MADRIGAL

3 Anthropometric data and population history
JOHN H. RELETHFORD

4 For everything there is a season: Chumash Indian births, marriages, and deaths at the Alta California missions
PHILLIP L. WALKER and JOHN R. JOHNSON

5 Children of the poor: infant mortality in the Erie County Almshouse during the mid nineteenth century
ROSANNE L. HIGGINS

6 Worked to the bone: the biomechanical consequences of ‘labor therapy’ at a nineteenth century asylum
SHAWN M. PHILLIPS

7 Monitored growth: anthropometrics and health history records at a private New England middle school, 1935–1960
LYNETTE LEIDY SIEVERT

8 Scarlet fever epidemics of the nineteenth century: a case of evolved pathogenic virulence?
ALAN C. SWEDLUND and ALISON K. DONTA

9 The ecology of a health crisis: Gibraltar and the 1865 cholera epidemic
LAWRENCE A. SAWCHUK and STACIE D.A. BURKE

10 War and population composition in A˚ land, Finland
JAMES H. MIELKE

11 Infectious diseases in the historical archives: a modeling approach
LISA SATTENSPIEL

12 Where were the women?
ANNE L. GRAUER

13 Malnutrition among northern peoples of Canada in the 1940s: an ecological and economic disaster
D. ANN HERRING, SYLVIA ABONYI and ROBERT D. HOPPA

14 Archival research in physical anthropology
MALCOLM T. SMITH

The Ecology of Power

Culture, Place, and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, A.D. 1000–2000

Libro de Michael J. Heckenberger (2005)

Contenido:

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

Broken Mirrors: Amazonia as Imagined World
Lost Civilizations, Again?
History, Ecology, and Power

PART I Visualizing Deep Temporality

CHAPTER 2 Culture and History: The Longue Durée

The Southern Amazon
The Southern Periphery
Xinguano Cultural Schema

CHAPTER 3 Traces of Ancient Times

Basic Chronology
A Tale of Two Towns: The Western Complex
The Eastern Complex

CHAPTER 4 Social Dynamics Before Europe

A Thread of Ariadne
Ancient Xinguano Regime as Galactic Polity
War and Peace in the Age of Inka

CHAPTER 5 In The Shadow of Empire: Colonialism and Ethnogenesis

A Brief History of “Contact”
The Construction of Xinguano Pluralism
Demography and Social Change

PART II Body, Memory, and History

CHAPTER 6 Landscape and Livelihood: The Ethos of Settled Village Life

Making a Living
Basic Diet
Objects as Subjects
Pottery
Productivity

CHAPTER 7 In The Midst of Others: Landscapes of Memory

The Mirror World of Dawn Time
The Skin of the Land
Village and Countryside
Place and Place-Making: The Sites of Memory
Visualizing Landscape: Memory and Representation

CHAPTER 8 Houses, Heroes, and History: The Fractal Person

Xinguano Social Memory: Enchainments
Chiefs and Others
Village as “House”

DROUGHTS, FOOD AND CULTURE

Ecological Change and Food Security in Africa’s Later Prehistory

Libro editado por Fekri A. Hassan (2002)

Contenido:

1. Introduction
F. A. Hassan
2. Palaeoclimate, Food and Culture Change in Africa: An Overview
F. A. Hassan

Section I: Climatic Change

3. Rapid Holocene Climate Changes in the Eastern Mediterranean Climate During the Late Holocene in the Sahara and the Sahel: Evolution and Consequences on Human Settlement
F. A. Hassan, E. J. Rohling, J. Casford, R. Abu-Zied, S. Cooke, D. Mercone, J. Thomson, 1. Croudace, F. J. Jorissen, H. Brinkhuis, J. Kallmeyer and G. Wefer
4. Climate During the Late Holocene in the Sahara and the Sahel: Evolution and Consequences on Human Settlement
R. Vernet
5. Late Pleistocene and Holocene Climatic Changes in the Central Sahara:
The Case Study of the Southwestern Fezzan, Libya
M. Cremaschi
6. Late Holocene Climatic Fluctuations and Historical Records of Famine in Ethiopia
M. U. Mohammed and R. Bonnefille
7. Environmental and Human Responses to Climatic Events in West and West Central Africa During the Late Holocene
M. A. Sowunmi

Section II: Plant Cultivation

8. Regional Pathways to Agriculture in Northeast Africa
H. N. Barakat
9. From Hunters and Gatherers to Food Producers: New Archaeological and Archaeobotanical Evidence from the West African Sahel
P. Breunig and K. Neumann
10. Holocene Climatic Changes in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Spread of Food Production from Southwest Asia to Egypt
M. Rossignol-Strick
11. Sustainable Agriculture in a Harsh Environment: An Ethiopian Perspective
A. Butler

Section III: Pastoralism

12. The Evidence for the Earliest Livestock in North Africa: Or Adventures with Large Bovids, Ovicaprids, Dogs and Pigs
A. Gautier
13. Cultural Responses to Climatic Changes in North Africa: Beginning and Spread of Pastoralism in the Sahara
B. E. Barich
14. Dry Climatic Events and Cultural Trajectories: Adjusting Middle Holocene Pastoral Economy of the Libyan Sahara
S. di Lernia
15. Food Security in Western and Central Africa During the Late Holocene: The Role of Domestic Stock Keeping, Hunting and Fishing
W. Van Neer
16. Bovines in Egyptian Predynastic and Early Dynastic Iconography
S. Hendrickx

Conclusion

17. Ecological Changes and Food Security in the Later Prehistory of North Africa: Looking Forward
F. A. Hassan

FOOD AND EVOLUTION

Toward a Theory of Human Food Habits

Libro editado por Marvin Harris y Eric B. Ross (1987)

Contenido:

Introduction

Part I. Theoretical Overview

1. An Overview of Trends in Dietary Variation from Hunter-Gatherer to Modern Capitalist Societies
ERIC B. ROSS
2. Foodways: Historical Overview and Theoretical Prolegomenon
MARVIN HARRIS

Part II. Bioevolutionary Antecedents and Constraints

3. Primate Diets and Gut Morphology: Implications for Hominid Evolution
KATHARINE MILTON
4. Omnivorous Primate Diets and Human Overconsumption of Meat
WILLIAM J. HAMILTON III
5. Fava Bean Consumption: A Case for the CoEvolution of Genes and Culture
SOLOMON H. KATZ

Part III. Nutritional and Biopsychological Constraints

6. Problems and Pitfalls in the Assessment of Human Nutritional Status
P. L. PELLETT
7. Psychobiological Perspectives on Food Preferences and Avoidances
PAUL ROZIN
8. The Preference for Animal Protein and f'at: A Cross-Cultural Survey
H. LEON ABRAMS, JR.
9. Biocultural Consequences of Animals Versus Plants as Sources of Fats, Proteins, and Other Nutrients
LESLIE SUE LIEBERMAN

Part IV. Pre-State Foodways: Past and Present

10. The Significance of Long-Term Changes in Human Diet and Food Economy
MARK N. COHEN
11. Life in the "Garden of Eden": Causes and Consequences of the Adoption of Marine Diets by
Human Societies
DAVID R. YESNER
12. The Analysis of Hunter-Gatherer Diets: Stalking an Optimal Foraging Model
BRUCE WINTERHALDER
13. How Much Food Do Foragers Need?
KRISTEN HAWKES
14. Aboriginal Subsistence in a Tropical Rain Forest Environment: Food Procurement, Cannibalism, and Population Regulation in Northeastern Australia
DAVID R. HARRIS
15. Ecological and Structural Influences on the Proportions of Wild Foods in the Diets of Two
Machiguenga Communities
ALLEN JOHNSON and MICHAEL BAKSH
16. Limiting Factors in Amazonian Ecology
KENNETH R. GOOD

Part V. The Political Economy and the Political Ecology of Contemporary Foodways

17. Loaves and Fishes in Bangladesh
SHIRLEY LINDENBAUM
18. Animal Protein Consumption and the Sacred Cow Complex in India
K. N. NAIR
19. The Effects of Colonialism and Neocolonialism on the Gastronomic Patterns of the Third 'Vorld
RICHARD W. FRANKE
20. Stability and Change in Highland Andean Dietary Patterns
BENJAMIN S. ORLOVE
21. Social Class and Diet in Contemporary Mexico
GRETEL H. PELTO
22. From Costa Rican Pasture to North American Hamburger
MARC EDELMAN

Part VI. Discussion and Conclusions

23. The Evolution of Human Subsistence
ANNA ROOSEVELT
24. Biocultural Aspects of Food Choice
GEORGE ARMELAGOS

Enclosing the Past: inside and outside in prehistory

Libro editado por Anthony Harding, Susanne Sievers y
Natalie Venclová (2006)

Contenido:

Introduction
Anthony Harding, Susanne Sievers and Natalie Venclová

1. Enclosures and fortifications in Central Europe
Evžen Neustupný

2. Large prehistoric enclosures in Bohemia: the evidence from the air
Martin Gojda

3. Does enclosure make a difference? A view from the Balkans
John Chapman and Bisserka Gaydarska, with Karen Hardy

4. Neolithic and post-Neolithic enclosures in Moravia in their central European context
Vladimír Podborský and Jaromír Kovárník

5. The first known enclosures in southern Britain: their nature, function and role, in space and time
Roger J. Mercer

6. Zambujal and the enclosures of the Iberian Peninsula
Michael Kunst

7. Enclosing and excluding in Bronze Age Europe
Anthony Harding

8. Defining community: iron, boundaries and transformation in later prehistoric Britain
Richard Hingley

9. Oppida und ihre linearen Strukturen
Susanne Sievers

10. Spätkeltische Viereckschanzen in Süddeutschland: Umfriedung – Abgrenzung – Umwehrung
Günther Wieland

11. Enclosing, enclosures and elites in the Iron Age
Natalie Venclová

12. Enclosure in Iron Age Wessex viewed from modern Ávila
John Collis

PLANT EVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN OF CROP SPECIES

Segunda edición del libro de James F. Hancock (2004)

Contenido:

Introduction

Part 1. Evolutionary Processes

1. Chromosome Structure and Genetic Variability
2. Assortment of Genetic Variability
3. The Multifactorial Genome
4. Polyploidy and Gene Duplication
5. Speciation

Part 2. Agricultural Origins and Crop Evolution

6. The Origins of Agriculture
7. The Dynamics of Plant Domestication
8. Cereal Grains
9. Protein Plants
10. Starchy Staples and Sugars
11. Fruits, Vegetables, Oils and Fibres
12. Postscript: Germ-plasm Resources

Bones and Cartilage: Developmental and Evolutionary Skeletal Biology

Libro de Brian K. Hall (2005)

Contenido general:

Part I Skeletal Tissues

1 Types of Skeletal Tissues
2 Bone
3 Cartilage

Part II Natural Experiments

4 Invertebrate Cartilages
5 Intermediate Tissues
6 An Evolutionary Perspective

Part III Unusual Modes of Skeletogenesis

7 Horns and Ossicones
8 Antlers
9 Tendons and Sesamoids

Part IV Stem Cells

10 Embryonic Stem Cells
11 Stem Cells in Adults

Part V Skeletogenic Cells

12 Osteo- and Chondroprogenitor Cells
13 Dedifferentiation Provides Progenitor Cells for Jaws and Long Bones
14 Dedifferentiation and Urodele Amphibian Limb Regeneration
15 Cells to Make and Cells to Break

Part VI Embryonic Origins

16 Skeletal Origins: Somitic Mesoderm
17 Skeletal Origins: Neural Crest
18 Epithelial–Mesenchymal Interactions

Part VII Getting Started

19 The Membranous Skeleton: Condensations
20 From Condensation to Differentiation
21 Skulls, Eyes and Ears: Condensations and Tissue Interactions

Part VIII Similarity and Diversity

22 Chondrocyte Diversity
23 Cartilage Diversity
24 Osteoblast and Osteocyte Diversity
25 Bone Diversity

Part IX Maintaining Cartilage in Good Times and Bad

26 Maintaining Differentiated Chondrocytes
27 Maintenance Awry – Achondroplasia
28 Restarting Mammalian Articular Chondrocytes
29 Repair of Fractures and Regeneration of Growth Plates

Part X Growing Together

30 Initiating Skeletal Growth
31 Form, Polarity and Long-Bone Growth
32 Long Bone Growth: A Case of Crying Wolff?

Part XI Staying Apart

33 The Temporomandibular Joint and Synchondroses
34 Sutures and Craniosynostosis

Part XII Limb Buds

35 The Limb Field and the AER
36 Adding or Deleting an AER
37 AERs in limbed and limbless tetrapods

Part XIII Limbs and Limb Skeletons

38 Axes and Polarity
39 Patterning Limb Skeletons
40 Before Limbs There Were Fins

Part XIV Backbones and Tails

41 Vertebral Chondrogenesis: Spontaneous or Not?
42 The Search for the Magic Bullet
43 Tail Buds, Tails and Taillessness

Part XV Evolutionary Skeletal Biology

44 Evolutionary Experimentation Revisited

Sacred Objects and Sacred Places : Preserving Tribal Traditions

Libro de Andrew Gulliford (2000)

Contenido general:

Introduction
1 Bones of Contention: The Repatriation of Native American Human Remains
2 Native Americans and Museums: Curation and Repatriation of Sacred and Tribal Objects
3 Sacred Places and Sacred Landscapes
4 From the Sweetgrass Hills to Bear's Lodge: Preservation of Tribal Sacred Places
5 Living Tribal Cultures
Appendix A: Tribal Traditional Cultural Places (from the National Park Service)
Appendix B: Current Tribal Museums and Community Centers (from the American Association for State and Local History)

The Origins of War

Violence in Prehistory

Libro de Jean Guilaine and Jean Zammit (edición en inglés de 2001)
Traducido por Melanie Hersey

Contenido:

Introduction 1
Bloodshed at the Beginning of History 1
War: An Ongoing Feature of Literature and Religion 5
Archeology: Tracking Down History 7
War in Prehistory: From the Garrigues of Languedoc to
the Temples of Malta 9
Corsica: Conquered and Reconquered 11
Violence and Aggression Before Humans 16
Warfare: Nature or Culture? 19
Exchange or Battle? 23
Was there a Paleolithic “War”? 24
Ritual Warfare and War between “Great Men” 27
Prehistoric Man: Neither Brutish Nor Docile 29
The Issue of Sacrifice 33
Is Prehistoric Violence “Readable”? 36

1 Violence in Hunter-Gatherer Society 40
Neanderthal Man and Cannibalism 41
Prehistoric Cannibalism 45
Suspicious Disappearances in Charente (France) 47
Cain’s Predecessors 49
Violence in the Artwork of the Quaternary Era 52
Sicily: Torture in 10,000 bce? 56
From the Throwing-Stick to the Bow and Arrow 61
The First Bows 63
Conflict in Sudan 67
Coveted Land 72
Conflict during the Mesolithic 75
The Enemy: Mutilated and Tortured 78

2 Agriculture: A Calming or
Aggravating Influence? 82
The Neolithic in Europe: A Peaceful or Dangerous Conquest? 83
The Talheim Massacre 86
Disturbances during the Neolithic 91
Fontbregoua (France): Another Case of Cannibalism? 95
Cannibalistic Farmers? 98
Neolithic Art, a Medium of Violence? 101
Battle Scenes in the Sierras of the Spanish Levant 103
Injuries and Capital Executions 111
Causes for Quarrel 115
Hunters and/or Farmers in Confrontation 119
The Strong and the Weak 122

3 Humans as Targets: 4,000 to 8,000
Years Ago 124
The Contrasting Geography of Violence 124
A Progressive Intensification of Conflict? 127
War upon the Plateaus of Southern France? 130
The Difficulties of Making an Assessment 133
Effective Weapons of Death 135
Injury and Trepanation 143
Did Collective Burial Sites Sometimes Serve as
Communal Graves? 146
Lessons from the San Juan Ante Portam Latinam Burial
Site (Alava, Spain) 152
Ballistic Accuracy 154
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4 The Warrior: An Ideological
Construction 158
The Importance of the Male 159
Accompanying a Man in Death 162
A Full Quiver: For Hunting, for Fighting, or for Show 167
Arrows and Jewels: Masculine/Feminine 171
Menhir-Statues: The First Armed Steles 173
From Mount Bego to the Italian Alps 180
Masculinity/Femininity: Reversing the Symbols 185
Open Villages and Fortified Settlements 188
Proto-Warriors of the West 192

5 The Concept of the Hero Emerges 195
Weapons and their Significance 197
The Warrior Becomes a Feature of Barbarian Europe 199
The Sword: King of Weapons 202
Ramparts, Forts, and Citadels 206
The East: Chariots in Battle 208
The Development of a Cavalry 215
Tracing the Footsteps of Heroes 217
Steles: Marking Combatants for Posterity 220
Multiple Sacrifices 223
Mutilated Bodies Preserved in Peat Bogs 228

Conclusion 233

Appendices

1: Evidence of Arrow-Inflicted Injuries from the Neolithic
Age in France 241

2: Chronological Distribution of the 44 Confirmed Sites 250

Notes 252

Bibliography 257