North America

ISBN: 9781407306520
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study examines, through a variety of evidence, Late Classic (c. 250-900 AD) Maya political organization, specifically the existence of large-scale political structures as evidenced through specific patterns of city plans and architectural ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407306704
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study investigates the form, function, and organization of features at the Late Paleoindian through Middle Archaic site of Dust Cave, Alabama (US), using a multidisciplinary approach combining macromorphological, micromorphological, and ch... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407306940
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The original idea for developing this book as Proceedings from the Symposium on Obsidian Source Studies in Northeast Asia, held at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (2005), was conceived in the summer of 2004. 1) ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788859607380
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Storia delle relazioni internazionali
Volume: 13
English summary: United States intervention in Latin America has its roots in the nineteenth century, but the Cold War provided a new face to American hegemony there. These collected studies examine U.S. politics in Latin America in the sec... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515096294
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Transatlantische Historische Studien (THS)
Volume: 42
English summary: In the wake of the crisis in Cyprus of 1974-75, the so-called Greek lobby established itself in the U.S., and has long been considered the second largest lobbying group after the Jewish-American lobby. But what is the role ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515093347
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Series: Transatlantische Historische Studien (THS)
Volume: 36
The Civil War was not only the largest catastrophe in the history of the United States, but also a crisis of international scale. Intervention of the European states under the leadership of the United Kingdom, which for a while not only seemed ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780520258471
Published by : University of California Press
This innovative examination of the Yosemite Indian experience in California poses broad challenges to our understanding of the complex, destructive encounters that took place between colonists and native peoples across North America. Looking cl... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407303901
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Written records of knowledge in the pre-Columbian New World are virtually non-existent (in contrast to an abundance of such records for ancient China and the Near East). Consequently chemical knowledge in the Americas, prior to the arrival of ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407306049
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study examines changes in Haida economic adaptations during the late pre-contact and early contact
periods in Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia). This was primarily achieved through the
analysis of faunal and ar... .... Learn More