American Landscapes
Series editors: Peter Topping, T. R. Kidder & Julie Gardiner
American Landscapes is a peer reviewed series providing an informed overview – from a holistic landscape perspective – of the history and changing land use of particular areas/regions or archaeological/historical themes in North America. Titles include single-authored or edited papers on a particular theme of landscape history or archaeology, a region, or related landscape settings across broader areas and timeframes. Wider themes include the influence of and human relationships with particular landscape features such as woodlands, vegetation zones, or river catchments. It also presents discussions of topics including rock art, migration, indigenous religious practices, or aspects of state and national parks.
Each volume provides a comprehensive and accessible narrative aimed at the informed reader, presenting an up-to-date review of the latest research from archaeology, anthropology, historical studies and the environmental sciences. Appendices of key sites or landscapes to visit and their accessibility are included where applicable.
(Print binding: Paperback | Format: 246 x 187 mm)
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Extracting Stone
The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes
Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9781785706240
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-03-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
168 Pages
Using a landscape approach to analysis, this volume examines activities at three major quarries that were used most intensively in the Archaic and Woodland periods, roughly 8,000-1,000 BP, looking at extraction scales, the range of material distributions, trade and exchange, the emergence of inequalities, and the broader technological systems.
Explanations in Iconography
Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning
Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9798888570425
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-08-02
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
240 Pages
Case studies combine archaeological data and oral tradition to illustrate how the archaeological expression of beliefs and meanings passed down in the oral tradition may be interpreted.
Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America
Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781789259292
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-01-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
256 Pages
New insights into wide-ranging temporal and geographical evidence for rituals and ritual specialists across the Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland and Mississippian Periods in the Southeastern USA.
Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas
Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9781789258448
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2022-07-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
288 Pages
An examination of how Pre-Columbian societies in the Americas envisioned their cosmos and iteratively modeled it through the creation of particular objects and places.
Battlespace 1865
Archaeology of the Landscapes, Strategies, and Tactics of the North Platte Campaign, Nebraska
Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9781785703393
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2016-12-21
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
144 Pages
First examination of the significant North Platte campaign of the US Civil and Indian wars combining battlefield archaeology methods and results with historical data and personal accounts of the campaign
Caddo Landscapes in the East Texas Forests
Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9781785705762
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2017-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
264 Pages
Discusses the Caddo archaeological landscape in the East Texas Pineywoods and Post Oak Savannah, with due attention paid to the construction of platform and burial mounds, and special ritual structures in and outside of mound centers, as well as the sites of domestic residences over the 1000 year Caddo record.
Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North America
Full Price: £38.00
Discount Price: £28.50
ISBN: 9781785700873
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-09-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
240 Pages
First comprehensive overview of the effigy mound phenomenon of the Upper Midwest of North America c. 700–1100 CE
Extracting Stone
The Archaeology of Quarry Landscapes
Price: £40.00
ISBN: 9781785706240
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-03-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
168 Pages
Explanations in Iconography
Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning
Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9798888570425
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-08-02
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
240 Pages
Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America
Price: £45.00
ISBN: 9781789259292
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2023-01-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
256 Pages
Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas
Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9781789258448
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2022-07-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
288 Pages
Battlespace 1865
Archaeology of the Landscapes, Strategies, and Tactics of the North Platte Campaign, Nebraska
Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9781785703393
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2016-12-21
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
144 Pages
Caddo Landscapes in the East Texas Forests
Price: £38.00
ISBN: 9781785705762
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2017-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
264 Pages
Ancient Effigy Mound Landscapes of Upper Midwestern North America
Full Price: £38.00
Discount Price: £28.50
ISBN: 9781785700873
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-09-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Oxbow Books
240 Pages