Research Catalog

Title

Prehistoric lifeways in the Great Basin wetlands : bioarchaeological reconstruction and interpretation / edited by Brian E. Hemphill, Clark Spencer Larsen ; foreword by David Hurst Thomas.

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©1999.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Hemphill, Brian E.
• Larsen, Clark Spencer.

Description

xxii, 394 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subject

• Indians of North America > Great Basin > Antiquities
• Indians of North America > Anthropometry > Great Basin
• Human remains (Archaeology) > Great Basin
• Antiquities
• Human remains (Archaeology)
• Indians of North America > Anthropometry
• Indians of North America > Antiquities
• Feuchtgebiet
• Archäologie
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Anthropometrie
• Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Paläanthropologie
• Iwi taketake
• Great Basin > Antiquities
• United States > Great Basin
• Großes Becken
• Indianer

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-382) and index.

Contents

Foreword / David Hurst Thomas -- Bioarchaeological Perspectives on Precontact Lifeways in the Great Basin Wetlands / Brian E. Hemphill, Clark Spencer Larsen -- No One Owns the Deceased! The Treatment of Human Remains from Three Great Basin Cases / Steven R. Simms, Anan W. Raymond -- Farmers, Foragers, and Adaptive Diversity: The Great Salt Lake Wetlands Project / Steven R. Simms -- Stable Carbon Isotopes and Great Salt Lake Wetlands Diet: Toward an Understanding of the Great Basin Formative / Joan Brenner Coltrain, Thomas W. Stafford Jr. -- Molecular Genetic Variation in Prehistoric Inhabitants of the Eastern Great Basin / Dennis H. O'Rourke, Ryan L. Parr, Shawn W. Carlyle -- A Biological Perspective on Prehistoric Human Adaptation in the Great Salt Lake Wetlands / Jason R. Bright, Carol J. Loveland -- Theoretical and Archaeological Insights into Foraging Strategies among the Prehistoric Inhabitants of the Stillwater Marsh Wetlands / Robert L. Kelly -- Prehistoric Subsistence Strategies in the Stillwater Marsh Region of the Carson Desert / Margaret J. Schoeninger -- Molecular Genetics and the Numic Expansion: A Molecular Investigation of the Prehistoric Inhabitants of Stillwater Marsh / Frederika A. Kaestle, Joseph G. Lorenz, David Glenn Smith -- Osteopathology of Carson Desert Foragers: Reconstructing Prehistoric Lifeways in the Western Great Basin / Clark Spencer Larsen, Dale L. Hutchinson -- An Examination of Wetland Adaptive Strategies in Harney Basin: Comparing Ethnographic Paradigms and the Archaeological Record / Albert C. Oetting -- Environmental Fluctuation and Physiological Stress in the Northern Great Basin / Greg C. Nelson -- Wear and Tear: Osteoarthritis as an Indicator of Mobility among Great Basin Hunter-Gatherers / Brian E. Hemphill -- Skeletal Structure and Behavioral Patterns of Prehistoric Great Basin Populations / Christopher B. Ruff -- Faces in Prehistory: Great Basin Wetlands Skeletal Populations / Robert L. Bettinger.

ISBN

• 0874806038
• 9780874806038

LCCN

99043317

OCLC

• ocm42080254
• 42080254
• SCSB-1124758

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library