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From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal
Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America
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eBook - PDF
From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal
Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America
About this book
The discovery and development of metals as tool media is a topic of global interest. This phenomenon is generally associated with sedentary, agricultural societies; however, in North America metal use by hunter-gatherer populations began as early as 9,000 years ago and continued into modern times. The regional and cultural diversity of research in this volume contributes to how we conceptualize hunter-gatherer innovation, technological proficiency, and complex decision-making in the past. Readers are challenged to reconsider long-held assumptions about how, when, and under what conditions metal became a part of humanity's story.
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Yes, you can access From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal by Michelle Rae Bebber,Christopher B. Wolff in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Ciencias sociales & Arqueología. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 — Hunter-Gatherer Native Copper Innovation in Northwestern North America
- Chapter 2 — Comparing the Scales of Metal Use Between the Inuit and Dorset (Tuniit) in the Eastern North American Arctic
- Chapter 3 — Hammer-ons in Heavy Metal
- Chapter 4 — Red Metal, Domestic Gods
- Chapter 5 — Copper Use in the Lower Southeast North America Before Agriculture
- Chapter 6 — Miskwabik’s Journey Beyond Minong
- Chapter 7 — A Morphometric Comparison of Copper Stem Points and Chert Osceola Points
- Chapter 8 — Re-evaluating Middle Holocene Copper Use, Gender Roles, and Social Organization
- Chapter 9 — Copper- versus Stone-Tipped Dart Relative Functional Efficiency
- Chapter 10 — The British Metal Invasion
- Chapter 11 — Experimental Archaeology on the Introduction of European Raw Materials in Indigenous Technology
- An Outro: Conclusions on the Indigenous Use of Metal in North America
- Index