Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ember, Melvin,
• Peregrine, Peter N

Titel

Encyclopedia of prehistory. Volume 2. Arctic and Subarctic

Ist Teil von

• Encyclopedia of prehistory ; : v. 2

Auflage

1st ed. 2001

Ort / Verlag

New York, New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2001]

Link zum Volltext

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• " Published in conjunction with the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University."
• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Aleutian -- Amur Neolithic and Bronze Age -- Amur Paleolithic -- Cis-Baikal Neolithic and Bronze Age -- Dorset -- Early Northwest Coast -- Eastern Arctic Small Tool -- Holocene Stone Age of Northeastern Asia -- Initial Shield Woodland -- Kamchatka Mesolithic -- Kodiak -- Late Northwest Coast -- Late Tundra -- Middle Northwest Coast -- Northern Archaic -- Northwest Microblade -- Norton -- Ocean Bay -- Old Itel’men -- Paleo-Arctic -- Proto-Athapaskan -- Shield Archaic -- Siberian Early Upper Paleolithic -- Siberian Late Upper Paleolithic -- Siberian Middle Upper Paleolithic -- Siberian Mousterian -- Siberian Neolithic and Bronze Age -- Siberian Protohistoric -- Tarya Neolithic -- Thule -- Western Arctic Small Tool.
• The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents also defined by a somewhat different set of an attempt to provide basic information sociocultural characteristics than are ethon all archaeologically known cultures, nological cultures. Major traditions are covering the entire globe and the entire defined based on common subsistence prehistory of humankind. It is designed as practices, sociopolitical organization, and a tool to assist in doing comparative material industries, but language, ideology, research on the peoples of the past. Most and kinship ties play little or no part in of the entries are written by the world's their definition because they are virtually foremost experts on the particular areas unrecoverable from archaeological conand time periods. texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and The Encyclopedia is organized accordkinship ties are central to defining ethnoing to major traditions. A major tradition logical cultures. There are three types of entries in the is defined as a group of populations sharing Encyclopedia: the major tradition entry, similar subsistence practices, technology, and forms of sociopolitical organization, the regional subtradition entry, and the which are spatially contiguous over a relasite entry. Each contains different types of tively large area and which endure tempoinformation, and each is intended to be rally for a relatively long period. Minimal used in a different way.
• English
• Description based on print version record.