Research Catalog

Title

Complex hunter-gatherers : evolution and organization of prehistoric communities on the plateau of northwestern North America / edited by William C. Prentiss and Ian Kuijt.

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Kuijt, Ian
• Prentiss, William C., 1960-

Description

xvii, 219 p. : ill., maps; 29 cm.

Summary

"The Plateau region of the Pacific Northwest has witnessed the emergence, persistence, and decline of a diverse array of hunter-gatherer communities during the past several thousand years. Consequently, the region contains an archaeological record of groups who have lived at times in permanent villages, employed complex resource procurement and processing strategies, participated in wide-ranging trade networks, and maintained social organizations featuring high degrees of social inequality." "Contributors seek to understand prehistoric social organization, subsistence practices, and lifeways of those living on the Plateau and to expand upon this foundation to assess the general evolution and organization of complex hunter-gatherers."--Jacket.

Series Statement

The anthropology of Pacific North America

Uniform Title

• Anthropology of Pacific North America.
• Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Canada, Western > Antiquities
• Columbia Plateau > Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Canada, Western
• Excavations (Archaeology) > West (U.S.)
• Hunting and gathering societies > Canada, Western
• Hunting and gathering societies > Columbia Plateau
• Hunting and gathering societies > West (U.S.)
• Paleo-Indians > Canada, Western > Hunting
• Paleo-Indians > Columbia Plateau > Hunting
• Paleo-Indians > Hunting > Canada, Western
• Paleo-Indians > Hunting > Columbia Plateau
• Paleo-Indians > West (U.S.) > Hunting
• Pit houses > Canada, Western
• Pit houses > West (U.S.)
• West (U.S.) > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-208) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The archaeology of the plateau region of northwestern North America -- approaches to the evolution of complex hunter-gatherers / William C. Prentiss, Ian Kuijt -- I. CHRONOLOGY AND MATERIALS IN PLATEAU ARCHAEOLOGY -- A culture historic synthesis and changes in human mobility, sedentism, subsistence, settlement, and population on the Canadian Plateau, 7000-200 BP / Mike Rousseau -- Materials and contexts for a culture history of the Columbia Plateau / William Andrefsky Jr. -- Cultural complexity: a new chronology of the Upper Columbia drainage area / Nathan B. Goodale [and others] -- The evolution of collector systems on the Canadian Plateau / William C. Prentiss, Ian Kuijt -- II. HOUSEHOLDS, SOCIAL COMPLEXITY, AND THE FORMATION OF AGGREGATE HUNTER-GATHERER COMMUNITIES -- Safety in numbers: the influence of the bow and arrow on village formation on the Columbia Plateau / James C. Chatters -- Ritual structures in transegalitarian communities / Brian Hayden, Ron Adams -- Fraser Valley trade and prestige as seen from Scowlitz / Michael Blake -- III. SOCIAL ORGANIZATION, PLANT RESOURCES, AND THE ABANDONMENT OF PITHOUSE VILLAGES -- A question of intensity: exploring the role of plant foods in northern plateau prehistory / Dana Lepofsky, Sandra L. Peacock -- The social dimensions of roasting pits in a winter village site / Brian Hayden, Sara Mossop Cousins -- Villages on the edge: pithouses, cultural change, and the abandonment of aggregate pithouse villages / Ian Kuijt, William C. Prentiss -- IV. DISCUSSION AND IMPLICATIONS -- A transcontinental perspective on the evolution of hunter-gatherer lifeways on the plateau: discussion and reflection / Jeanne E. Arnold.

ISBN

087480793X (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004002520

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library