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Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
After a mountainside massacre yields a grim message, Painter Crowe, director of Sigma Force, must join with Commander Grayson Pierce and an unlikely ally if he is going to get to the root of a conspiracy that stretches back to a lost prehistoric colony in America.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Describes the ancient cultures of North America based on archaeological findings, including extensive sections on the background of North American exploration and archaeology, the Paleo-Indians, the Great Plains, the Far North, the West, and the Eastern Woodlands, and a chapter on European contact.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This book is an offbeat field guide for sites in North America that reflect the rejection of the facts of prehistory and history. Though fake, the forty sites Feder highlights are fascinating and fun places to visit. Feder provides an entertaining summary of those forty sites along with the practical information you'll need to visit them."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This Native-directed series reveals the beauty and power of today's Indigenous communities. Smashing stereotypes, it follows the brilliant engineers, bold politicians, and cutting-edge artists who draw upon Native tradition to build a better 21st century. Each hour explores a core tenet of Native American heritage: the power of Indigenous design, how language and artistry fuel the soul, the diverse ways Native women lead, and the resilience of the...
13) Native America
Publisher
[PBS Distribution]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ancient wisdom and modern science are combined to shed light on who were America's first people.
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Hiscock project, informally called the "Byron Dig," involved the 29-year scientific excavation and study of a site in western New York. The site proved to contain an astonishingly rich trove of fossils and artifacts dating from the late Ice Age to the time of European settlement. The tangible result of this project is a fully documented collection of over 100,000 specimens in the Buffalo Museum of Science. The proposed book is based on the published...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating account of both the historical and current struggle of Native Americans to recover sacred objects that have been plundered and sold to museums. Museum curator and anthropologist Chip Colwell asks the all-important question: Who owns the past? Museums that care for the objects of history or the communities whose ancestors made them?"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Morgan's frank and incisive history begins with Richard Wetherill's "discovery" of Mesa Verde in Colorado in 1888. Subsequent expeditions by amateurs, looters, and budding professional archaeologists abetted the devastation of Indigenous sites throughout the Southwest. These expeditions became the proving grounds for different conceptions of what archaeology should be and how it should be practiced. Ultimately, revulsion at the work of nineteenth-century...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The earth's climate warmed from the 9th through the 13th centuries CE. Named the Medieval Warm Period, it was a time of great historical change in precolonial North America, as evidenced through archaeology. While scholars have previously suggested the existence of long-distance ties between the civilizations of Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and the Mississippi valley, no one until now has argued that climate change and religion -not trade-...
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