Explorations in American Archaeology Essays in Honor of Lesley R. Hurt

by Plew, Mark G.; Bryan, Alan L.; de Borges Franco, Teresa Cristina; Gruhn, Ruth; Hall, Robert L.; Lynch, Thomas F.; Myers, Thomas P.; Nieuwenhuis, Channnah JosÈ; Roosevelt, A.C; Schmitz, Pedro Ign·cio; TenÛrio, Maria Cristina; Tratebas, Alice M.; Zimmerman,

• ISBN13: 9780761811848
• ISBN10: 0761811842
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-09-03
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Explorations in American Archaeology is a collection of original essays relating to the areas of archaeology within which Hurt conducted pioneering research. The contributions include a number of noted scholars in both North And South America and reflect Hurt's regional and topical interests. This volume is focused to a considerable degree of continuity among its contributions. Many of the papers provide new data and insights related to seminal and contemporary issues in American archaeology, and is strengthened by Pedro Schmitz and other prominent Brazilian archaeologists who provide new and unpublished data regarding native subsistence strategies. Due to the integration and continuity of the entire volume, those searching for specific information will finds essays throughout the volume useful to their purposes.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	v
List of Tables	x
Foreword	xiii
Richard S. MacNeish
Wesley R. Hurt	xv
Mark G. Plew
Introduction	1	(6)
Mark G. Plew
Prehistoric Fishing Activity in Brazil: A Summary	7	(30)
Teresa Cristina de Borges Franco
A Reappraisal of the Edge-Trimmed Tool Tradition	37	(18)
Ruth Gruhn
Alan L. Bryan
A Comparison of Some North American and Mesoamerican Cosmologies and Their Ritual Expressions	55	(34)
Robert L. Hall
The Paleoindian and Archaic Stages in South America: Zones of Continuity and Segregation	89	(12)
Thomas F. Lynch
Trade and Alliance in the Trans-Missouri West	101	(32)
Thomas P. Myers
Unattractive But Effective: Unretouched Pointed Flakes as Projectile Points? A Closer Look at the Abriense and Tequendamiense Artifacts	133	(32)
Channah Jose Nieuwenhuis
Paleoindian and Archaic Occupations in the Lower Amazon, Brazil: A Summary and Comparison	165	(28)
A.C. Roosevelt
Peopling of the Seashore of Southern Brazil	193	(28)
Pedro Ignacio Schmitz
Abandonment of Brazilian Coastal Sites: Why Leave Eden?	221	(38)
Maria Cristina Tenorio
Reexamining the Plains Archaic McKean Culture	259	(52)
Alice M. Tratebas
Toward an Ethnocritical Archaeology of Indian-White Relationships on the Plains	311
Larry J. Zimmerman