The Eastern Archaic, Historicized Contributor(s): Sassaman, Kenneth E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0759106800 ISBN-13: 9780759106802 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $52.47 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Native American - Social Science | Archaeology - History | United States - State & Local - General |
Dewey: 974.01 |
Series: Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 296 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |