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Reid, J. Jefferson. "Recent Findings on North American Prehistory." American Antiquity 57, no. 2 (1992): 195–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0002731600052227.

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Moss, Madonna L., and Jon M. Erlandson. "Reflections on North American Pacific Coast prehistory." Journal of World Prehistory 9, no. 1 (1995): 1–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02221002.

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Huckell, Bruce B. "The archaic prehistory of the North American Southwest." Journal of World Prehistory 10, no. 3 (1996): 305–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02286419.

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Harrold, Francis B., and Stephen Williams. "Fantastic Archaeology: The Wild Side of North American Prehistory." Journal of Field Archaeology 19, no. 4 (1992): 521. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/530434.

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Poser, William J., and Stephen Williams. "Fantastic Archaeology: The Wild Side of North American Prehistory." Language 68, no. 2 (1992): 450. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/416993.

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Ferreira, Luiz F., Ana M. Jansen, and Adauto Araújo. "Chagas disease in prehistory." Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83, no. 3 (2011): 1041–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0001-37652011005000013.

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The classical hypothesis proposes that Chagas disease has been originated in the Andean region among prehistoric people when they started domesticating animals, changing to sedentary habits, and adopting agriculture. These changes in their way of life happened nearly 6,000 years ago. However, paleoparasitological data based on molecular tools showed that Trypanosoma cruzi infection and Chagas disease were commonly found both in South and North American prehistoric populations long before that time, suggesting that Chagas disease may be as old as the human presence in the American continent. The study of the origin and dispersion of Trypanosoma cruzi infection among prehistoric human populations may help in the comprehension of the clinical and epidemiological questions on Chagas disease that still remain unanswered.
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Lowell, Julia C. ": Fantastic Archaeology: The Wild Side of North American Prehistory . Stephen Williams." American Anthropologist 94, no. 4 (1992): 1007–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.1992.94.4.02a00870.

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Nanda, Serena. "North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment: From Prehistory to the Present:North American Indian Jewelry and Adornment: From Prehistory to the Present." American Anthropologist 104, no. 1 (2002): 350–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.2002.104.1.350.

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Salter, Sarah H. "A Hero and His Newspaper: Unsettling Myths of Italian America." MELUS 45, no. 2 (2020): 108–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlaa019.

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Abstract Italian American ethnic identity has long been constituted by struggles and inequalities endured by Italians in post-unification rural Italy and their subsequent racialized oppression in urban centers of the US North in the era of mass migration. Until now, the presumed stability of mass migration identity has created the general terms for understanding Italian America. In this essay, a New Orleans microhistory illuminated through the 1849 newspaper Il Monitore del Sud, the first Italian-language newspaper published in the United States, reshapes foundational understandings of Italian American identity. The newspaper's antebellum account of New Orleans Italian America includes nationalist aesthetic expressions and political affiliations that American political discourse has not yet found an adequate language to describe and that Italian American studies has not yet confronted. In bringing this prehistory to light, my work with antebellum Italian Americans complicates understandings of multi-ethnic collectivity by examining how intercultural myth-making underwrites communal historiography. Together, the ethnic perceptions memorialized in Il Monitore del Sud and the power operations revealed in concurrent civic records expose how collective conditions of white supremacy come to be naturalized and forgotten, becoming history's flotsam. The creation of Italian America's communal historiography, I argue, shows us something larger about the operations of US white supremacy: how its emotional logic depends simultaneously on the exploitation of vulnerable others and the enactment of vulnerability from within the exploiting group.
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Echo-Hawk, Roger C. "Ancient History in the New World: Integrating Oral Traditions and the Archaeological Record in Deep Time." American Antiquity 65, no. 2 (2000): 267–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2694059.

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AbstractOral traditions provide a viable source of information about historical settings dating back far in time—a fact that has gained increasing recognition in North America, although archaeologists and other scholars typically give minimal attention to this data. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) lists oral traditions as a source of evidence that must be considered by museum and federal agency officials in making findings of cultural affiliation between ancient and modern Native American communities. This paper sets forth the NAGPRA standards and presents an analytical framework under which scholars can proceed with evaluation of historicity in verbal records of the ancient past. The author focuses on an Arikara narrative and argues that it presents a summary of human history in the New World from initial settlement up to the founding of the Arikara homeland in North Dakota. Oral records and the archaeological record describe a shared past and should be viewed as natural partners in post-NAGPRA America. In conceptual terms, scholarship on the past should revisit the bibliocentric assumptions of “prehistory,” and pursue, instead, the study of “ancient American history”-an approach that treats oral documents as respectable siblings of written documents.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "North american prehistory"

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Allitt, Sharon. "STABLE ISOTOPIC INSIGHTS INTO THE SUBSISTENCE PATTERNS OF PREHISTORIC DOGS (CANIS FAMILIARIS) AND THEIR HUMAN COUNTERPARTS IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/136922.

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Anthropology<br>Ph.D.<br>There are four goals to this study. The first is to investigate the diet of prehistoric dogs (Canis familiaris) in the Northeast region of North America using stable isotope analysis. The second goal of this study is to generate independent data concerning the presence or absence of C4 resources, such as maize, in the diets of dogs. Third, this study investigates the use of dog bone as a proxy for human bone in studies assessing the presence of C4 resources at archaeological sites. The fourth goal of this study is to provide a check on existing interpretations of the material, macro- and micro-botanical records as it concerns the presence or absence of C4 resources at the sites involved in this study. Stable isotope analysis is a science that allows the measuring of the abundance ratio of two stable isotopes of a particular element. Stable isotope analysis can differentiate C4 and C3 plants, as well as terrestrial and marine resources in material such as bone where the chemistry of diet becomes recorded. Given the importance of C4 plants to many prehistoric populations, in the absence of direct evidence identifying their presence at archaeological sites, an alternate method for identification is needed. Maize played an important role in changing human behaviors during prehistory including: decisions to increase sedentism, abuse of power structures, and stratification of gender roles within human populations. Additionally, an overall decrease in health is seen in prehistoric populations who focused their subsistence practices on maize. Dogs were chosen as the focus of this study because related research suggests that their diet tends to mimic human diet. Prehistoric dogs were scavengers, but they were also intentionally fed companions. The suggestion that dog diet in some way mimics human diet means that stable isotope ratios from their bone will reflect the type of resources available for consumption by their human counterparts. As such, this investigation may also indirectly inform on the diets of the American Indian inhabitants of the settlements in which these dog remains originate. Thirty samples of dog bone, dating from the Early Ceramic Period, ca. 3000 B.P. to the Late Woodland and Early Historic Period, were obtained from museum and personal collections, and from ongoing archaeological excavations throughout the Northeast region of North America. Stable isotope analysis was conducted at Notre Dame's Center for Environmental Science and Technology. The results of this analysis indicates that these prehistoric dogs consumed the types of resources represented in the archaeological record with one important exception: consumption of C4 resources, possibly maize, was occurring at several sites where no other evidence of C4 exploitation exists. Of the dogs sampled ten were from pre-agricultural sites in Maine and their stable isotope ratios indicated a diet of marine and terrestrial resources. Nineteen dogs were excavated from components dating to the Late Woodland or Historic Period. During the Late Woodland and Historic Period the C4 plant maize was exploited by many human groups in the study region. Interpretation based on stable isotopes from bone collagen indicates that six of these dogs had isotopic signatures within the range of significant C4 resource consumption. Stable isotope ratios from the remaining dogs indicate a smaller contribution of C4 resources to diet. According to 13C ratios from carbonate three dogs, two from New Jersey (DB2, DB8) and one from Maryland (DB11), had a significant C4 plant component to their diet. The remaining Late Woodland and Historic period dogs most likely consumed minor amounts of C4 resources. In addition to identifying C4 resources in the diet of dogs, the value of assessing isotope data from both collagen and carbonate is investigated. The sample size for this study was small in comparison to the size of the region assessed. Despite the small sample size, this analysis contributes to our knowledge of past dog and human subsistence patterns. Our understanding of the utility of stable isotope studies of human companion species has also expanded. In addition to investigating the presence of C4 resources in the diet of prehistoric dogs, this research provides an alternate line of inquiry to re-assess current interpretations, especially in areas where direct evidence of isotopically identifiable C4 plants, such as maize are currently lacking. The results of this study are applicable first and foremost to the consumption patterns of the individual animals sampled. However, that these dogs were consuming particular resources provides at least a clue of what was under consideration by their human counterparts.<br>Temple University--Theses
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Kennedy, Jaime. "A Paleoethnobotanical Approach to 14,000 Years of Great Basin Prehistory: Assessing Human-Environmental Interactions Through the Analysis of Archaeological Plant Data at Two Oregon Rockshelters." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23918.

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Well-preserved plant remains recovered from archaeological deposits at the Paisley Five-Mile Point Caves and Little Steamboat Point-1 Rockshelter in southcentral Oregon provided a rare opportunity to study ancient plant resources used by northern Great Basin indigenous groups and their ancestors with Western Stemmed technologies. Macrobotanical analysis of cultural features and vertical columns spanning the Terminal Pleistocene and Holocene epochs in the rockshelter repositories yielded thousands of seeds and charcoal fragments that can be attributed to human activities. Data generated in this analysis have provided evidence of paleoenvironments along with the diets and social behaviors of people visiting northern Great Basin rockshelters as a stopover on their seasonal subsistence rounds. The preponderance of upland shrubs and herbs in the assemblages at both archaeological sites indicates vegetation in the immediate vicinity of the rockshelters was fairly stable over the past 14,000 years. The macrobotanical data complemented local and regional pollen analyses to refine the paleoecological proxy data and address uncertainties regarding the proximity of wetland plants and pine (Pinus sp.) to the rockshelters in the past. Samples originating from Younger Dryas deposits at the Paisley Caves and Late Holocene deposits at the Paisley Caves and LSP-1 Rockshelter suggest increased visitation frequency in these periods. The diverse assemblage of cultural plant remains during these times also indicate a broad diet breadth for Great Basin foragers, which included small seeds, nuts and berries, and root vegetables. The presence of an earth oven feature dating to the Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene (TP/EH) in Paisley Cave 5 further demonstrates sophisticated traditional knowledge of plant foods and cooking techniques as early as 12,000 cal BP. This study also generated data chronicling the deep historical roots of traditionally valued economic plant foods. Cheno-ams, grasses (Poaceae), and tansymustards (Descurainia sp.) are well-represented in fire hearths at the Paisley Caves and LSP-1 Rockshelter through time. Analysis of a bushytailed woodrat (Neotoma cinerea) nest in deposits dating to the TP/EH demonstrates rodents living in the Paisley Caves routinely scavenged resources from cultural activity areas, and raised questions about whether people recognized the woodrats’ nests as a reliable resource of cached edible seeds.
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Royce, Karen Louise. "Geophysical Investigation of an Early Late Woodland Community in the Middle Ohio River Valley: The Water Plant Site." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313416567.

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Weiland, Andrew W. "Marshelder (Iva annua L.) Seed Morphology and Patterns of Domestication in Eastern North America." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365684474.

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Munoz, Samuel E. "Prehistoric Human-Environment Interaction in Eastern North America." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28665.

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Industrialized human societies both affect and are vulnerable to environmental change, but the dynamics of human-environment relationships during prehistory are less well understood. Using large databases of accumulated paleoecological and archaeological records, this dissertation explores the relationship between prehistoric humans and environmental change in eastern North America. A synthesis of late Quaternary paleoecological and archaeological data from the northeastern United States shows a close temporal correspondence between changes in climate, terrestrial ecosystems, human culture and population numbers. These synchronous changes occurred at 11.6, 8.2, 5.4 and 3.0 thousand years before present, before the adoption of maize agriculture when human groups in eastern North America subsisted by hunting and gathering. Further examination of these datasets in southern Ontario over the last two thousand years found that clearance of forests by prehistoric Native Americans for agricultural fields significantly altered terrestrial ecosystems at a sub-regional scale (102-10 3 m). Together, these results support the hypothesis that prehistoric Native Americans had a greater environmental impact than previously believed, but show that this impact was concentrated around agricultural settlements and was less substantial than that associated with European settlement during the historic period. The methodologies developed in this dissertation provide a means to better understand human-environment relationships in other regions which differ in their environmental and cultural histories.
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Szuter, Christine Rose. "Hunting by prehistoric horticulturalists in the American Southwest." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184739.

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Hunting by horticulturalists in the Southwest examines the impact of horticulture on hunting behavior and animal exploitation among late Archaic and Hohokam Indians in south-central Arizona. A model incorporating ecological and ethnographic data discusses the impact horticulturalists had on the environment and the ways in which that impact affected other aspects of subsistence, specifically hunting behavior. The model is then evaluated using a regional faunal data base from Archaic and Hohokam sites. Five major patterns supporting the model are observed: (1) a reliance on small and medium-sized mammals as sources of animal protein, (2) the use of rodents as food, (3) the differential reliance on cottontails (Sylvilagus) and jack rabbits (Lepus) at Hohokam farmsteads versus villages, (4) the relative decrease in the exploitation of cottontails versus jack rabbits as a Hohokam site was occupied through time, and (5) the recovery contexts of artiodactyl remains, which indicate their ritual and tool use as well as for food.
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Dods, Roberta Robin. "Prehistoric exploitation of wetland habitats in North American boreal forests." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1317920/.

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The thesis begins with an overview of hunter-gatherers from an historical perspective and insights from the ethnographic and ethno-ecological literature. Then the prehistoric cultural sequence of the northern boreal forest is examined against the environmental contexts of the research area, specifically a number of Initial Woodland through Terminal Woodland archaeological sites in Northwestern Ontario. Faunal data from the study sites, along with published data from other archaeological sites in NE Ontario and observations from the ethnographic literature, contribute to this section. Analysis and interpretation includes the logistics of site location and observations on possible indications of fire in prehistoric sites from NW Ontario. The faunal data from these sites is in microfiche in the Appendix A. Within the context of TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge) and WSK (Western Scientific Knowledge), fieldwork in modern boreal environments, undertaken in Saskatchewan in 1995, is reported. The assessment of sites follows from their initial selection from infra-red satellite images to their ground-based examination. Soil development, fire history of several areas and observations on fire regimes are explored. The character of patchwork habitat development, and the place of fire regimes and beaver colonisation in this development, are examined. Taphonomic losses at various ecological and cultural levels (Taphonomies I-IV) are considered in the context of theoretical constructs, leading to an interpretative model. Habitat utilisation by prehistoric Northern Boreal forest hunter-gatherers is considered in the final chapter. The role of Beaver as 'keystone species' and the nature of interlinked resources are explored. Fire regimes, and the subsequent development of first stage regrowth patterns as integral parts of the economic system, leads to a model for the management of resources by prehistoric boreal hunters-gatherers. The philosophical implications for the interpretation of hunter-gatherers as effective shapers of an exploited landscape, along with the problematic areas in the research, are outlined in the concluding part of the work.
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Shook, Beth Alison Schultz. "Ancient DNA and the biological history and prehistory of northeastern North America /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Eshleman, Jason Aaron. "Mitochondrial DNA and prehistoric population movements in western North America /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2002. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Bolnick, Deborah Ann. "The genetic prehistory of eastern North America : evidence from ancient and modern DNA /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Books on the topic "North american prehistory"

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Fantastic archaeology: The wild side of North American prehistory. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

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Jefferson, Reid J., and Doyel David E. 1946-, eds. Emil W. Haury's Prehistory of the American Southwest. University of Arizona Press, 1986.

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Jefferson, Reid J., and Doyel David E. 1946-, eds. Emil W. Haury's Prehistory of the American Southwest. University of Arizona Press, 1992.

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North American Indian jewelry and adornment: From prehistory to the present. Abrams, 2003.

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Togashi and Jones Paul, eds. North American Indian jewelry and adornment: From prehistory to the present. Harry N. Abrams, 1999.

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The land of prehistory: A critical history of American archaeology. Routledge, 1998.

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The rise and fall of North American Indians: From prehistory through Geronimo. Taylor Trade Pub., 2003.

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The crimsoned hills of Onondaga: Romantic antiquarians and the Euro-American invention of Native American prehistory. Cambria Press, 2008.

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Time, trees, and prehistory: Tree-ring dating and the development of North American archaeology, 1914-1950. University of Utah Press, 1999.

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Prehistory of North America. 3rd ed. Mayfield Pub. Co., 1989.

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Book chapters on the topic "North american prehistory"

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Vehik, Susan C., and Timothy G. Baugh. "Prehistoric Plains Trade." In Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America. Springer US, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6231-0_9.

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Kehoe, Alice Beck. "The Archaeology of Gender in Western North America." In A Companion to Gender Prehistory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118294291.ch26.

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Chatters, James C. "A Macroevolutionary Perspective on the Archaeological Record of North America." In Macroevolution in Human Prehistory. Springer New York, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0682-3_8.

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Jackson, Thomas L., and Jonathon E. Ericson. "Prehistoric Exchange Systems in California." In Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America. Springer US, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6231-0_13.

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Johnson, Jay K. "Prehistoric Exchange in the Southeast." In Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America. Springer US, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6231-0_5.

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Prentiss, Anna Marie, and Michael Lenert. "Cultural Stasis and Change in Northern North America: A Macroevolutionary Perspective." In Macroevolution in Human Prehistory. Springer New York, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0682-3_9.

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Patterson, William A., and Kenneth E. Sassaman. "Indian Fires in the Prehistory of New England." In Holocene Human Ecology in Northeastern North America. Springer US, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2376-9_6.

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O’Brien, Michael J., Briggs Buchanan, Mark Collard, and Matthew T. Boulanger. "Cultural Cladistics and the Early Prehistory of North America." In Evolutionary Biology: Mechanisms and Trends. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30425-5_2.

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Gibson, Jon L. "Empirical Characterization of Exchange Systems in Lower Mississippi Valley Prehistory." In Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America. Springer US, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6231-0_6.

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Carlson, Roy L. "Trade and Exchange in Prehistoric British Columbia." In Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America. Springer US, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6231-0_11.

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Conference papers on the topic "North american prehistory"

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Burtt, Amanda Anne, and Larisa R. G. DeSantis. "USING DENTAL MICROWEAR TEXTURE ANALYSIS TO INVESTIGATE THE SCAVENGING BEHAVIOR OF LATE-PREHISTORIC DOMESTIC DOGS IN NORTH AMERICA." In GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - 2018. Geological Society of America, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2018am-323655.

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