The sectional conflict between North and South was different in Indian Territory (now the state of Oklahoma). There, the Civil War was only a veneer over the competition among the United States, the Confederacy, and sovereign Indian Nations known as the Five Civilized Tribes whose citizens, in turn, had multiple motives that drove divided ......
In Resurrecting the Past, Sarah Griswold shows how the Levant became a crucial front in a post-1918 fight over the French past-a contingent and contradictory but always hard-charging struggle over a forgotten "heritage mandate." Many scholars, clergy, pundits, politicians, and investors perceived the moment Allied forces entered Jerusalem in ......
The illustrated story of the history and groundbreaking discovery of an important historical site, fully updated on the 30th anniversary of its first publication Awards and praise for the first edition: Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit "Tells ......
Puebloan Resilience and Agricultural Sustainability in Chaco Canyon
An esteemed archaeologist's lifetime of work on water use in Chaco Canyon The ability of the inhabitants of Chaco Canyon to sustain themselves through farming in an arid environment has long been a topic of debate among scholars. Building upon the work of his father, Gordon, R. Gwinn Vivian dedicated his lifetime of archaeological work to ......
Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem is a revelatory portrait of the Frankish Levant at the time of the Crusades. Following victory in the First Crusade in 1099, the newcomers from Europe, or Franks, ruled a Christian kingdom in Jerusalem, then Acre, until 1291. Historians have written off this kingdom as a derivative cultural backwater. ......
The Bioarchaeology and History of the Asistencia De San Pedro Y San Pablo
Collaborative research revealing the lives of Ohlone individuals buried at an eighteenth-century Spanish mission outpost Construction work in 2016 at Sanchez Adobe Park, the site of a historic Spanish mission outpost in the San Francisco Bay Area, led to the surprising discovery of human skeletal remains. This book presents a series of ......
The Bioarchaeology and History of the Asistencia De San Pedro Y San Pablo
Collaborative research revealing the lives of Ohlone individuals buried at an eighteenth-century Spanish mission outpost Construction work in 2016 at Sanchez Adobe Park, the site of a historic Spanish mission outpost in the San Francisco Bay Area, led to the surprising discovery of human skeletal remains. This book presents a series of ......
A wide-ranging synthesis of research illuminating the lives of ancient people who lived in the deserts, mountains, and river valleys of the North American Southwest ? The two volumes of Bioarchaeology of the Southwest bring together more than 100 years of research into the lives of the ancient people of the Southwest United States and Northwest ......
Exploring other facets of past human-animal relationships beyond food In this dynamic volume, Gillian L. Wong and Amy Milson Klemmer present seven groundbreaking chapters that delve into the diverse ways humans have interacted with animals in the past, as revealed through archaeological research into animal remains. Zooarchaeology beyond Human ......
