Exploring American Landscapes: Diverse Perspectives in American Geography and History
Dive into the rich tapestry of American Landscapes, a series offering a comprehensive exploration of America’s geographical and historical diversity. This series provides in-depth insights into the unique physical and cultural landscapes that have shaped the United States. Discover more with our American Archaeology titles and delve deeper into geographical diversity on our Landscape Archaeology & Geoarchaeology section.
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Extracting Stone
The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes
Full Price: $34.99
Discount Price: $27.99
ISBN: 9781785706240
Pub Date: 2024-04-04
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
168 Pages
Using a landscape approach to analysis, this volume examines activities at three major quarries that were used most intensively in the Archaic and Woodland periods, roughly 8,000-1,000 BP, looking at extraction scales, the range of material distributions, trade and exchange, the emergence of inequalities, and the broader technological systems.
Explanations in Iconography
Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9798888570425
Pub Date: 2023-10-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
240 Pages
Case studies combine archaeological data and oral tradition to illustrate how the archaeological expression of beliefs and meanings passed down in the oral tradition may be interpreted.
Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781789259292
Pub Date: 2023-02-22
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
256 Pages
New insights into wide-ranging temporal and geographical evidence for rituals and ritual specialists across the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland and Mississippian Periods in the Southeastern USA.
Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781789258448
Pub Date: 2022-09-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
288 Pages
An examination of how Pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos and iteratively modeled it through the creation of particular objects and places.
Transforming the Landscape
Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781785706288
Pub Date: 2018-04-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
288 Pages
This new synthesis focuses on the widespread use of cosmograms in the vast repertoire of Mississippian rock art imagery. It anchors broad distributional patterns of motifs and themes within a powerful framework for cultural interpretation, yielding new insights on ancient concepts of landscape, nature, ceremonialism, religion, and a more comprehens
Battlespace 1865
Archaeology of the Landscapes, Strategies, and Tactics of the North Platte Campaign, Nebraska
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781785703393
Pub Date: 2016-10-26
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
144 Pages
First examination of the significant North Platte campaign of the US Civil and Indian wars combining battlefield archaeology methods and results with historical data and personal accounts of the campaign
Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio
More Than Mounds and Geometric Earthworks
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781782977544
Pub Date: 2015-01-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
288 Pages
This first volume in our major new series American Landscapes examines the cultural, economic, constructional and logistical background to the development of the vast and varied ceremonial landscapes of the prehistoric Hopewell societies of Ohio (c 200 BC-AD 500).
Caddo Landscapes in the East Texas Forests
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781785705762
Pub Date: 2017-02-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
264 Pages
Discusses the Caddo archaeological landscape in the East Texas Pineywoods and Post Oak Savannah, with due attention paid to the construction of platform and burial mounds, and special ritual structures in and outside of mound centers, as well as the sites of domestic residences over the 1000 year Caddo record.
Extracting Stone
The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes
Full Price: $34.99
Discount Price: $27.99
ISBN: 9781785706240
Pub Date: 2024-04-04
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
168 Pages
Explanations in Iconography
Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9798888570425
Pub Date: 2023-10-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
240 Pages
Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781789259292
Pub Date: 2023-02-22
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
256 Pages
Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781789258448
Pub Date: 2022-09-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
288 Pages
Transforming the Landscape
Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781785706288
Pub Date: 2018-04-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
288 Pages
Battlespace 1865
Archaeology of the Landscapes, Strategies, and Tactics of the North Platte Campaign, Nebraska
Price: $34.99
ISBN: 9781785703393
Pub Date: 2016-10-26
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
144 Pages
Hopewell Ceremonial Landscapes of Ohio
More Than Mounds and Geometric Earthworks
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781782977544
Pub Date: 2015-01-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
288 Pages
Caddo Landscapes in the East Texas Forests
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781785705762
Pub Date: 2017-02-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
264 Pages