Research Catalog

Title

Light from ancient campfires : archaeological evidence for Native lifeways on the northern plains / Trevor R. Peck.

Author

Peck, Trevor Richard.

Publication

Edmonton : AU Press, c2011.

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Details

Description

xvi, 508 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Alberta > Antiquities
• Projectile points > Alberta
• Paleo-Indians > Alberta
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Alberta
• Indiens d'Amérique > Alberta > Antiquités
• Pointes de projectile > Alberta
• Indiens du paléolithique > Alberta
• Fouilles (Archéologie) > Alberta
• Alberta > Antiquities
• Alberta > Antiquités

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 457-494) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Earliest Inhabitants... Prior to ca. 11,050 BP -- Pre-Clovis Sites (> CA. 11,050 BP) ; Pre-Clovis: Still Searching for the Evidence -- 2. Early Prehistoric Period... ca. 11,050 to 8,600 BP -- Clovis Phase (CA. 11,050 TO 10,800 BP) -- Clovis: An Unprecedented "Homecoming"? -- Folsom Phase (CA. 10,900 TO 10,200 BP) ; Folsom: High Mobility with a Focus on Bison -- Sibbald Phase (CA. 10,500 BP) ; Sibbald: The Beginning of Regionalization -- Agate Basin/Hell Gap Complex (CA. 10,200 TO 9,600 BP) ; Agate Basin/Hell Gap: Continuity from Folsom to Scottsbluff? -- Alberta Phase (CA. 9,600 TO 9,000 BP) ; Alberta: Earliest Point Style of the Cody Tradition -- Scottsbluff-Eden Phase (CA. 9,000 TO 8,600 BP) ; Scottsbluff-Eden: The First Major Occupation? -- 3. Early To Middle Prehistoric Period Transition... ca. 8,600 to 7,500 BP -- Plains/Mountain Complex (CA. 8,600 TO 7,700 BP) ; Plains/Mountain: Transition from Spears to Darts in the Foothills/Mountains -- Lusk Complex (CA. 8,300 TO 7,500 BP) ; Lusk: Transition from Spears to Darts on the Plains
• 4. Middle Prehistoric Period... ca. 7,500 to 1,500 BP -- Country Hills Complex (CA. 7,500 TO 7,300 BP) ; Country Hills: Barbed Darts in the Front Range and Foothills -- Mummy Cave Complex (CA. 7,300 TO 6,700 BP) ; Mummy Cave: The Earliest Side-notched Point Assemblages -- Maple Leaf Complex (CA. 6,300 TO 5,200 BP) ; Maple Leaf: Subsisting in the Foothills and Front Range -- Calderwood Complex (CA. 5,200 TO 4,700 BP) ; Calderwood: Social and Material Culture Diversity Five Thousand Years Ago -- Gowen Complex (CA. 5,900 TO 5,200 BP) ; Gowen: A Distinct Cultural Entity? -- Estevan Phase (CA. 4,900 TO 4,500 BP) ; Estevan: Oxbow Beginnings on the Alberta Plains -- Oxbow Phase (CA. 4,500 TO 4,100 BP) ; Oxbow: Cemeteries, Boiling Pits, and More -- Mckean Complex (CA. 4,200 TO 3,500 BP) ; McKean: Migrants from the Big Horn Basin/Black Hills Area -- Pelican Lake Complex (CA. 3,600 TO 2,800 BP) ; Pelican Lake: The Twilight Days of Bison Stalking -- Outlook Complex (CA. 2,500 BP) ; Outlook: The First Wave of Middle Missouri Invaders -- Sandy Creek Complex (CA. 2,500 BP) ; Sandy Creek: Besant Beginnings? -- Bracken Phase (CA. 2,800 TO 2,100 BP) ; Bracken: Industrializing Bison Pounding and Mobilizing a Workforce -- Besant Phase (CA. 2,100 TO 1,500 BP) ; Besant: A Renewed Perspective -- 5. Middle To Late Prehistoric Period Transition... ca. 1,500 to 1,350 BP -- Sonota Phase (CA. 1,500 TO 1,350 BP) ; Sonota: Reviving the Newman-Syms Perspective
• 6. Late Prehistoric Period... ca. 1,350 to 250 BP -- Avonlea Phase (CA. 1,350 TO 1,100 BP) ; Avonlea: Migrant Archers from the East ; Avonlea-Old Women's Transition (CA. 1,100 BP) ; Avonlea-Old Women's Transition: End of Avonlea Within the Beginnings of Old Women's -- Old Women's Phase (CA. 1,100 TO 250 BP) ; Old Women's: Archaeological Evidence for the Prehistoric Blackfoot (Nitsitapii) -- Highwood Phase (CA. 500 TO 300 BP) ; Highwood: Shoshonean (Snake) Invaders in Southern Alberta -- 7. Late Prehistoric To Historic Period Transition... Protohistoric Period, ca. 250 to 200 BP -- Protohistoric Old Women's Phase (CA. 250 TO 200 BP) ; Protohistoric Old Women's: Continuity and Change -- One Gun Phase (CA. 200 BP) ; One Gun: More Migrants from the Middle Missouri Area.

ISBN

• 9781897425961 (pbk.)
• 1897425961 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2010674474

OCLC

664424313

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library