Mill Creek and the Toxic Legacies of the Anthropocene
Using archaeology to unearth the lingering effects of capitalism at one of Western Canada's first industrial sites Revenant Waste explores the haunting afterlife of industrial waste in Edmonton's Mill Creek Ravine, one of Western Canada's earliest industrial zones. This book shows how waste shapes vulnerable communities and environments both ......
Mill Creek and the Toxic Legacies of the Anthropocene
Using archaeology to unearth the lingering effects of capitalism at one of Western Canada's first industrial sites Revenant Waste explores the haunting afterlife of industrial waste in Edmonton's Mill Creek Ravine, one of Western Canada's earliest industrial zones. This book shows how waste shapes vulnerable communities and environments both ......
Southern Anthropological Society James Mooney Award ?An archaeological study of Florida's springs that shows the importance of springs to Florida's people over thousands of years.? Throughout their history, Florida's springs have been gathering places for far-flung peoples. In Water from Stone, Jason O'Donoughue discusses the genesis of ......
Reading Environmental Entanglements in Modern Italy
Over the past century, the Italian landscape has undergone exceedingly rapid transformations, shifting from a mostly rural environment to a decidedly modern world. This changing landscape is endowed with a narrative agency that transforms how we understand our surroundings. Situated at the juncture of Italian studies and ecocriticism and following ......
Because of the sheer volume of industrial debris and the limited information it yields, quarries are challenging archaeological subjects. Michael J. Shott tackles this challenge in a study of flakes and preforms from the Modena and Tempiute obsidian quarries of North America's Great Basin. Using new statistical methods combined with experimental ......
Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants
Generally portrayed as a windswept wasteland of marginal use for human habitation, Patagonia is an unmatched testing ground for some of the world's most important questions about human ecology and cultural change. In this volume, archaeologist Raven Garvey presents a critical synthesis of Patagonian prehistory, bringing an evolutionary perspective ......
Contains the archaeological survey of the Kaiparowits Plateau by James Gunnerson, the Glen Canyon main stem survey by Don Fowler, and the San Juan triangle survey by Ted Weller reports.
Although humans in the Southwest were hunter-gatherers for about 85 percent of their history, the majority of the archaeological research in the region has focused on the Formative period. In recent years, however, the amount of data on the Archaic period has grown exponentially due to the magnitude of cultural resource management projects in this ......
Glen Canyon and the Struggle for the Soul of the West
In this classic narrative history of the construction of Glen Canyon Dam in the 1950s and 1960s, Russell Martin has captured the individual, cultural, political, and environmental dramas that brought into being the environmental movement we know today.Across the West, calls for the removal of hydroelectric dams constructed during the Bureau of ......
