Product Description: How does our colonial past echo through today's global politics? How have former empire-builders sought vindication or atonement, and formerly colonized states reversal or retribution? This groundbreaking book presents a panoramic view of attitudes to empires past and present, seen not only through the hard politics of international power structures but also through the nuances of memory, historiography and national and minority cultural identities...read more

Offers a region by region look at the tools and weapons used by Native American tribes, including the Nootka Indians of the Pacific Northwest and the tools used in whale hunting.

An updated resource for arrowhead collectors incorporates more than twelve thousand black-and-white and color photographs, divided into ten geographic regions including Alaska, to help readers identify and classify their collections, along with information on stone tools, grading tips, buying advice, regional markets, and more. Original.

Product Description: This book was originally published in 1984. For over a million years rocks provided human beings with the essential raw materials for the production of tools. Nevertheless we still know very little about the behaviour and processes that resulted in the creation of archaeological sites at or near lithic quarries...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Focusing on the inventive history of Native Americans--from tools and technology to cultural achievements--an addition to the Tools of Discovery series shows how the first Americans, facing varying climates and unconquered lands, found ways to develop food supplies, shelter, religion, games, and jewelry by making use of their region's natural resources. Original. $20,000 ad/promo.

An updated resource for arrowhead collectors incorporates more than twelve thousand black-and-white and color photographs, divided into ten geographic regions including Alaska, to help readers identify and classify their collections, along with information on stone tools, grading tips, buying advice, regional markets, and more. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: An illustrated guide to making Native American tools and weapons using time-honored methods.

Product Description: Explores the impact of European colonization on Native American and Pacific Islander technology and culture.This is the first comprehensive analysis of the partial replacement of flaked stone and ground stone traditions by metal tools in the Americas during the Contact Era...read more

Product Description: This is the only book available, designed for collectors, about prehistoric Indian axes. The author of the popular four-volume Indian Artifacts of the Midwest series has brought back this title for a second edition, which includes almost 500 b/w photos and now includes an all-new colour section with almost 100 photos...read more

An updated handbook featuring more than five thousand life-size illustrations provides helpful advice on arrowhead identification and classification based on point shapes and features, as well as historical background information, grading tips, and a guide to finding and buying arrowheads. Original.

Product Description: Indian relic hunting and collecting is enjoyed by people of all ages - it is one of the most popular hobbies in our society today. Due to this popularity, there are numerous books devoted to the subject, but never before has there been such a handy informative guide for collectors...read more

"This is an important new reference work for the professional archaeologist as well as the student and collector." —Central States Archaeological Journal"Justice... admirably synthesizes the scientific information integrating it with the popular approach. The result is a publication that readers on both sides of the spectrum should enjoy as well as comprehend." —Choice"... an indispensable guide to the literature. Attractive layout, design, and printing accent the useful text.... it should remain the standard reference on point typology of the midwest and eastern United States for many years to come." —Pennsylvania ArchaeologistArchaeologists and amateur collectors alike will rejoice at this important reference work that surveys, describes, and categorizes the projectile points and cutting tools used in prehistory by the Indians in what are now the middle and eastern sections of the United States, from 12,000 B.C. to the beginning of the historic period. Mr. Justice describes over 120 separate types of stone arrowheads and spear points according to period, culture, and region. His detailed drawings show how Native Americans shaped their tools, what styles were peculiar to which regions, and how the various types can best be identified. There are over 485 drawings organized by type cluster and other identifying characteristics. The work also includes distribution maps and 111 examples in color. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The volume comprises a n introduction by Carr's seven case studies, and three commentaries. Carr begins by explaining that the "key to studies of technological organization is relating artifacts such as chipped stone tools and debitage to a variety of economic and social parameters that allow sound inferences concerning the dynamics of past cultures...read more

Product Description: MELTZER, D. J. / R. C. DUNNELL, EDS.: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF WILLIAM HENRY HOLMES. WASHINGTON, PA, 1992, l 400 p. figuras.Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Shows and describes hundreds of Indian arrowheads, spear points, and stone knives from each part of the U.S