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Diversity and Complexity in Prehistoric Maritime Societies
Bruce J. Bourque
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Paperback. Series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Num Pages: 414 pages, 200 black & white illustrations, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 824.
New England archaeology has not always been everyone's cup of tea; only late in the Golden of nineteenth-century archaeology, as archaeology's focus turned westward, did a few pioneers look northward as well, causing a brief flurry of investigation and excavation. Between 1892 and 1894, Charles C. Willoughby did some exemplary excavations at three small burial sites in Bucksport, Orland, and Ellsworth, Maine, and made some models of that activity for exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair. These activities were encouraged by E Putnam, director of the Harvard Peabody Museum and head of anthropology at the "Columbian" Exposition. Even earlier, another ... Read more
New England archaeology has not always been everyone's cup of tea; only late in the Golden of nineteenth-century archaeology, as archaeology's focus turned westward, did a few pioneers look northward as well, causing a brief flurry of investigation and excavation. Between 1892 and 1894, Charles C. Willoughby did some exemplary excavations at three small burial sites in Bucksport, Orland, and Ellsworth, Maine, and made some models of that activity for exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair. These activities were encouraged by E Putnam, director of the Harvard Peabody Museum and head of anthropology at the "Columbian" Exposition. Even earlier, another ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
414
Condition
New
Series
Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology
Number of Pages
414
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781475770223
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V9781475770223
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Reviews for Diversity and Complexity in Prehistoric Maritime Societies
`An impressive piece of work...This is nothing less than good, solid archaeological research.' Journal of Field Archaeology, 1998 `Bourque's careful review of the intellectual history of previous scenarios of the past in the Northeast and beyond is well laid out for all to see....Give the book a good ... Read more