"This book presents both nationally significant objects and ordinary items from everyday life to provide insight into 19th century American society, showing readers how the production, design, function, and use of these objects can inform our understanding of the period"--
"This book presents both nationally significant objects and ordinary items from everyday life to provide insight into 19th century American society, showing readers how the production, design, function, and use of these objects can inform our understanding of the period"--
Things you can see and touch can bring to mind the time when the items were made and used. In Touching America's History, Meredith Mason Brown uses twenty objects to summon up major developments in America's history.
Things you can see and touch can bring to mind the time when the items were made and used. In Touching America's History, Meredith Mason Brown uses twenty objects to summon up major developments in America's history. The objects range in date from a Pequot stone axe head probabl…
The Adventure of the Illustrious Scholar: Papers Presented to Oscar White Muscarella, edited by Elizabeth Simpson, is a Festschrift celebrating the career of one of the foremost archaeologists of the ancient Near East. Oscar Muscarella is a former curator at the Metropolitan Mus…
The archaeology of Native North America
by Gonlin, Nancy, Snow, Dean R., Siegel, Peter E.
Eurasian origins -- The peopling of America -- Archaic cultures -- The Arctic and Subarctic -- Moundbuilders of the Eastern Woodlands -- The Mississippians -- The Northeastern forests -- The interior West -- The greater Southwest -- The West Coast -- The Gulf Rim and the Caribbe…
The Archaeology of Native North America
by Gonlin, Nancy, Snow, Dean R., Siegel, Peter E.
"The Archaeology of Native North America presents the ideas, evidence, and debates regarding the initial peopling of the continent by mobile bands of hunters and gatherers and the cultural evolution of their many lines of descent over the ensuing millennia. The emergence of farm…
The archaeology of Native North America
by Gonlin, Nancy, Snow, Dean R., Siegel, Peter E.
"The Archaeology of Native North America presents the ideas, evidence, and debates regarding the initial peopling of the continent by mobile bands of hunters and gatherers and the cultural evolution of their many lines of descent over the ensuing millennia. The emergence of farm…
The archaeology of Native North America
by Gonlin, Nancy, Snow, Dean R., Siegel, Peter E.
"The Archaeology of Native North America presents the ideas, evidence, and debates regarding the initial peopling of the continent by mobile bands of hunters and gatherers and the cultural evolution of their many lines of descent over the ensuing millennia. The emergence of farm…
The archaeology of Native North America
by Gonlin, Nancy, Snow, Dean R., Siegel, Peter E.
"The Archaeology of Native North America presents the ideas, evidence, and debates regarding the initial peopling of the continent by mobile bands of hunters and gatherers and the cultural evolution of their many lines of descent over the ensuing millennia. The emergence of farm…