Research Catalog

Title

The Native Americans : prehistory and ethnology of the North American Indians / Robert F. Spencer, Jesse D. Jennings, et al.

Publication

New York : Harper & Row, ©1965.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Spencer, Robert F.
• Jennings, Jesse D. (Jesse David), 1909-1997

Description

xi, 539 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Summary

A study of the social and economic development, religion, and culture of selected Indian tribes in North America, based on archeological research.

Subject

• Indians of North America
• Indians of North America > Antiquities
• Antiquities
• Indians of North America
• Indians of North America > Antiquities
• Indianen
• Prehistorie
• Antropologia Cult Social
• Grupos Etnicos (Em Geral)
• Indios
• Etnografia
• Arqueologia/Pre-Historia (America)
• Iwi taketake
• North America > Antiquities
• North America

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 507-529.

Contents

Introduction -- Perspective -- Archeological Methods -- History of American Archeology -- Classification Systems -- In the Beginning -- The Archaic Stage -- Later Specializations -- Woodland -- Adena-Hopewell -- Mississippian -- Plains -- The Arctic -- Southwest -- Historic Tribes -- Language-American Babel -- Classifications, Relationships, and Time Depth -- Language and Culture -- The Nature of Aztec Codices -- Arctic and Sub-Arctic in Native America -- The Eskimo -- The Eskimo of Northern Alaska -- Athabascans of the Western Sub-Arctic -- The Northwest Coast -- Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian -- The Central Tribes-Kwakiutl and Nootka -- Western North America -- Plateau, Basin, California -- The Plateau -- California -- The Basin -- The Southwest -- Zuni -- The Navaho -- The Tribes of the Great Plains -- The Mandan -- The Teton Dakota -- The Kiowa -- Tribes of the Northeast -- The iroquois -- The Penobscot -- The Eastern Sub-Arctic -- The Ojibwa -- The Southeast -- The Natchez -- The Creek -- Mesoamerica -- The Classic Maya -- The Aztecs -- The Cultural Influence of Mesoamerica on North America -- American Indian Heritage: Retrospect and Prospect

LCCN

65012683

OCLC

• ocm00248730
• 248730
• SCSB-150980

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library