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Town Creek Indian Mound: A Native American Legacy

Book by Joffre Lanning Coe; University of North Carolina Press, 1995

Subjects:

Excavations (Archaeology)--North Carolina, Indians Of North America--North Carolina--Antiquities, Mississippian Culture--North Carolina, North Carolina--Antiquities, Town Creek Site (N.C.)

Collections: History, Entire Library

Written for visitors as well as for scholars, this book provides an overview of the site and the archaeological techniques pioneered there, surveys the history of the excavations, and features more than 200 photographs and maps. The book carefully reconstructs the archaeological record, including ...
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Written for visitors as well as for scholars, this book provides an overview of the site and the archaeological techniques pioneered there, surveys the history of the excavations, and features more than 200 photographs and maps. The book carefully reconstructs the archaeological record, including plant and animal remains, pottery sherds, stone tools, and clay ornaments. In a concluding interpretive section, Coe reflects on what Town Creek and its artifacts tell us about this ancient Native American society.
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Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks

Book by Mark David Spence; Oxford University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Indians Of North America--Relocation--History, National Parks And Reserves--United States--History, Nature Conservation--Social Aspects--United States, Wilderness Areas--Government Policy--United States

Collections: History, Entire Library

This book examines the ideal of wilderness preservation in the United States from the antebellum era to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how the early conception of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived (or should live) gave way to the idealization of uninhabited ...
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This book examines the ideal of wilderness preservation in the United States from the antebellum era to the first half of the twentieth century, showing how the early conception of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived (or should live) gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. It focuses on specific policies of Indian removal developed at Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Glacier national parks from the early 1870s to the 1930s.
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American Indian Environments: Ecological Issues in Native American History

Book by Christopher Vecsey, Robert W. Venables; Syracuse University Press, 1980

Subjects:

Human Ecology--North America, Indians Of North America--Land Tenure

Collections: History, Entire Library

...demise. Climate and dozens of other factors could have been just as, even more important. 105 Even granting that Paleo-Indians did play a role in killing off the large game animals 12,000 years ago, does that in any way argue against an Indian...
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The American Indian Frontier

Book by William Christie MacLeod; Alfred A. Knopf, 1928

Subjects:

Indians Of North America--History, Indians Of North America--Wars, Indians Of South America--History, Indians--Origin

Collections: History, Entire Library

...language sets them as a group apart. 1 THE ORIGIN OF THE INDIAN LANGUAGES; ESKIMO RELATED TO TURKISH How did these Mongolians...Japanese, Koreans, and of the tribes of northeastern Siberia the Paleo-Siberians or Old Siberians are not members of the Uralian...
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People of the Peyote: Huichol Indian History, Religion & Survival

Book by Stacy B. Schaefer, Peter T. Furst; University of New Mexico Press, 1996

Subjects:

Ethnohistory--Mexico--Nayarit, Huichol Indians--History, Huichol Indians--Religion, Huichol Philosophy, Nayarit (Mexico)--Social Life And Customs, Peyotism--Mexico--Nayarit, Rites And Ceremonies--Mexico--Nayarit, Shamanism--Mexico--Nayarit

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Entire Library

...PEYOTE PEOPLE OF THE PEYOTE Huichol Indian History, Religion, Survival EDITED...Cataloging-in-Publication Data People of the peyote: Huichol Indian history, religion, survival / Edited...ISBN 0-8263-1905-x paper 1. Huichol Indians--History. 2. Huichol Indians--Religion...

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Journal Articles on: paleo indian

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Indian Patriotism Warriors vs. Negotiators

Journal article by Christopher L. Miller; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 17, 1993

Subjects:

Indians Of Central America--Periodicals

Collections: Entire Library

...Salisbury, exchange networks evolved connecting geographically and culturally distant peoples and cultures as early as the Paleo-Indian period. 10 Even in regions considered quite primitive, such exchange networks functioned from a very early time...
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The Current Debate about the Origins of the Paleoindians of America

Journal article by Herbert S. Klein, Daniel C. Schiffner; Journal of Social History, Vol. 37, 2003

Subjects:

Archaeology, Archaeology--Research, Paleo-Indians, Paleo-Indians--Research, Physical anthropology, Physical anthropology--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...between Asian populations and American Indian peoples at roughly 25,000 BP, with a margin...from northeast Asians and recent American Indians. Despite the conclusions of this new school...1-10. (35.) Lyle Campbell, American Indian Languages. This Historical Linguistics...
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Ohio's First Peoples

Journal article by Barbara Alice Mann; The Historian, Vol. 68, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Ohio's First Peoples (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...whirlwind tour of Ohios Native American past, starting with "Paleo-Indian" evidence, dating back 10,890 years, and ending with the...clear to Western scholars that they have history (not paleo- or prehistory), and that Westerners alone should not...
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Changing Patterns of Ethnography in Canadian Anthropology: A Comparison of Themes

Journal article by Regna Darnell; Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 34, 1997

Subjects:

Anthropology, Sociology

Collections: Entire Library

...Central Arctic Archaeology, paleo-Indian, hunter gatherer adaptations...Maliseet-Micmac Archaeology, paleo-Indian Name Ethnographic Focus Theoretical...North America Geoarchaeology, Paleo-Indian, prehistory Alan McMillan...
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The Beginnings of Anthropological Archaeology in the North American Southwest: From Thomas Jefferson to the Pecos Conference

Journal article by David R. Wilcox, Don D. Fowler; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 44, 2002

Subjects:

Anthropological research--History, Ethnologists--History, Southwestern United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...biblical framework for human history, Indian peoples had to have originated in the...determining the groups or places from which Indians were derived would allow judgments as...anthropological studies were the various Indian peoples (Hallowell 1959). Scholars, government...

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Magazine Articles on: paleo indian

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Indians and Anthropologists Are Battling over Old Bones

Magazine article by Leslie Alan Horvitz; Insight on the News, Vol. 12, November 18, 1996

Subjects:

Anthropological research--Political aspects, Archaeology and state--Analysis, Columbia River--Discovery, exploration, etc., Excavations (Archaeology)--Discovery, exploration, etc., Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act, Native Americans--Mortuary customs

Collections: Entire Library

...Americans at Oregon State University. Centuries-old remains once described as "paleo-Indian," he suggests, might one day be called paleo-American." Skullduggery As Indians move aggressively to enforce the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and...
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The Sky Is Falling: The Odds That a Potentially Devastating Space Rock Will Hit Earth This Century May Be as High as One in 10. So Why Isn't NASA Trying Harder to Prevent Catastrophe?

Magazine article by Gregg Easterbrook; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 301, June 2008

Subjects:

Abbott, Dallas--Research, Astronomical collisions--Prevention, Astronomical collisions--Research, Craters--Research, Geophysicists--Research, Impact craters--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...mastodons, and others. Some scientists have speculated that Paleo-Indians may have hunted some of the creatures to extinction...disappearance of the Clovis People, the best-documented Paleo-Indian culture, at about the same time? Their population stretched...
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An Explosion of Green

Magazine article by Bill Mckibben; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 275, April 1995

Subjects:

Forest conservation--Northeastern United States, Northeastern United States--Environmental aspects, Wildlife conservation--Northeastern United States

Collections: Entire Library

...history that long pre-dates Columbus. Paleo-Indians moved into the northern forest...however, that over thousands of years Indians rearranged the landscape to suit...could be further from the truth." Indians cleared land for agriculture and...
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Diffusionists Have Landed: You've Probably Heard of Those Crackpot Theories about Ancient Phoenicians or Chinese in the New World. Maybe It's Time to Start Paying Attention

Magazine article by Mark K. Stengel; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, January 2000

Subjects:

America, Archaeology--Methods, Native American history--History, Native North Americans--History, Native South Americans--History

Collections: Entire Library

...controversy, of course--as a form of paleo-Hebrew from the first or second...Scientific evidence that American Indian ancestors may not have been...ticklish subject, not only for Indians but also, apparently, for the...recognize that many American Indian languages are heavily larded...
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The Diffusionists Have Landed : You've Probably Heard of Those Crackpot Theories about Ancient Phoenicians or Chinese in the New World. Maybe It's Time to Start Paying Attention

Magazine article by Marc K. Stengel; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, January 2000

Subjects:

Emigration and immigration--History, United States--History

Collections: Entire Library

...controversy, of course -- as a form of paleo-Hebrew from the first or second...Scientific evidence that American Indian ancestors may not have been...ticklish subject, not only for Indians but also, apparently, for the...recognize that many American Indian languages are heavily larded...

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Newspaper Articles on: paleo indian

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Revisiting U.S. History

Newspaper article by J.S. Fletcher, Kathy M. Newbern; The Washington Times, September 15, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...watch as pieces from the nations beginnings come to light. Uncovered so far are 400,000 artifacts, the oldest being two Paleo-Indian spears gauged to date back 11,000 years. "You are an odd-looking lot," Mr. Bell jokes with his tourist following...
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Residents Fear Being 'Eaten Alive' by Peotone Every Acre Bought for Third Airport Belonged to a Neighbor or a Friend

Newspaper article by Marni Pyke; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 14, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Theres a really high number of Paleo-Indian sites that are considered important...collections of stone arrowheads used by Indians. If the airport was built, asphalt...ancient history, including American Indian burial mounds, Hupe said. "Theyd...
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Search for the Mastodon Two Years Ago, 11,500-Year-Old Remains Were Found by Accident in Pratt's Wayne Woods. Now Enthusiasts Are Digging for More

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 3, 2007

Subjects:

Archaeology

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...rare," Demel said. In addition to prehistoric flora and fauna remains, scientists are also looking for remnants of a Paleo-Indian civilization. "There is potential to find human spear points," said Kissel, who also is the Fields science program developer...
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Sarasota County Property Transfers

Newspaper article; Sarasota Herald Tribune, January 30, 2005

Subjects:

Condominium, Glen Elyn, Iva, Phase, Q5, Lot

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Bryceland, Jack and Veronica, Lot 43, Block B, Arbor Trace, Unit 1, $245,000. Paleo Properties Inc. to Marz Productions Inc., Lot 17, Paleo Park of Commerce, $274,300. Paleo Properties Inc. to Ringling Centre LLC, Lot 18, Paleo Park of Commerce, $285...
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Museum Director Brings an Archaeologist's View

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), July 24, 2005

Subjects:

University of Oregon

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...there werent any Indians chasing us. But we were working with Indian people. Question: What are the challenges and rewards of doing...Southern California), what were doing is what you might call paleo-marine biology, studying how humans interacted with the sea...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: paleo indian

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Americas, Antiquity and Prehistory of The

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Americas is unresolved. The term "Paleo-Indians" is generally used to refer to...reached the Americas. The best known Paleo-Indian culture is that of the fluted-point...fluted-point hunters were the oldest Paleo-Indians in the Americas. The Paleo-Indians...

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