Two of the world's leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagun's monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This immense undertaking is the first complete translation into any language of Sahagun's Nahuatl text, and represents one of the most distinguished ......
Two of the world's leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated SahagUn's monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This immense undertaking is the first complete translation into any language of SahagUn's Nahuatl text, and represents one of the most distinguished ......
Two of the world's leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated SahagUn's monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This immense undertaking is the first complete translation into any language of SahagUn's Nahuatl text, and represents one of the most distinguished ......
Fluted Points of the Far West provides the first large scale overview of fluted points in the far western United States, including details of their attributes, the production trends, and their range of variability. It serves as a compendium of groundbreaking research by the California Fluted Lanceolate Uniform Testing and Evaluation Database ......
Between 1951 and 1962 the Atomic Energy Commission triggered some one hundred atmospheric detonations of nuclear weapons at the Nevada Test Site. U.S. military troops who participated in these tests were exposed to high doses of radiation. Among them was a young Marine named Leonard Bird. In Folding Paper Cranes Bird juxtaposes his devastating ......
The California coastline has long been of interest to archaeologists. This book directs attention to the largely ignored Pecho Coast, a rugged, isolated 20 km long peninsula between modern-day Morro Bay and Pismo Beach. Archaeological work along this stretch was last synthesized in 1972. Jones and Codding now bring together the extensive contract ......
The 1914 Clay Southworth Gila River Pima Interviews
During the nineteenth century, upstream diversions from the Gila River decreased the arable land on the Gila River Indian Reservation to only a few thousand acres. As a result the Pima Indians, primarily an agricultural people, fell into poverty. Many Pima farmers and leaders lamented this suffering and in 1914 the United States Indian Irrigation ......
1. Contains descriptions of 988 Trees belonging to 87 families. 2. Has 568 pages, 255 black and white photographs and 193 line drawings of Trees. 3. Separate photographs provided for the Evergreen, Deciduous, Scrub and Mangrove Trees. 4. Sacred, Rare, Endemic, Ornamental, Fruit-bearing, Littoral Trees are tabulated. 5. Contains Maps of Forests ......
This handbook synthesizes the most important principles of cultural and environmental formation processes for both students and practicing archaeologists. Formation Process of the Archaeological Record embodies a vision that the cultural past is knowable, but only when the nature of the evidence is thoroughly understood. It shows how the past is ......
