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  • Beyond the Bone Beds

    Large-Scale Bison Kills in Northwest Oklahoma

    by Leland C. Bement ...
    Series series Peopling of the Americas Publications
    For those interested in the archaeology of prehistoric North America, author Leland C. Bement’s Beyond the Bone Beds: Large-Scale Bison Kills in Northwest Oklahoma presents carefully researched technical data that will enlighten scholars, students, field researchers, and general readers alike. Bison are a keystone prey species of the grassland ecosystem, often migrating long distances. North ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Practices during the Central Texas Archaic

    by Leland C. Bement ...
    Series series Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series
    Beginning over 10,000 years ago and continuing until the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s, hunter and gatherer societies occupied the Edwards Plateau of central Texas. Archaeological studies over the past eighty years have reconstructed their subsistence, technology, and settlement patterns, but until now little information has been available on their burial practices, due to the scarcity of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary

    Edited by Kristen A. Carlson, Leland C. Bement ...
    Archaeological research on the late Pleistocene and early Holocene periods has tended to focus on rock shelters, caves, large game kills, and occasionally butchery sites. Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary examines a diverse range of open-air sites—bounded both naturally and culturally—in Siberia and Germany and throughout North America.Open-air sites are ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Archaeology of Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey

    The Economic and Social Dynamics of Mass Hunting

    Edited by Leland C. Bement, Kristen A. Carlson ...
    The Archaeology of Large-Scale Manipulation of Prey explores the social and functional aspects of large-scale hunting adaptations in the archaeological record. Mass-kill hunting strategies are ubiquitous in human prehistory and exhibit culturally specific economic, social, environmental, and demographic markers. Here, seven case studies—primarily from the Americas and spanning from the Folsom ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Hunting and Extinctions in Southwest Asia and North America

    The Silent Testimony of Communal Game Traps

    by Dani Nadel, Guy Bar-Oz, Dan Malkinson, Leland Bement ...
    Hunting and Extinctions in Southwest Asia and North America: The Silent Testimony of Communal Game Traps explores communal game traps for harvesting ungulate herds in two continents, utilizing a comparative approach addressing settings, species, and the hunters’ societies.The kites of Southwest Asia have been known to archaeologists for almost one hundred years but with the advent of high ... Read more

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  • The Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere

    by Paulette F. C. Steeves ...
    2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic. Paulette F. C. Steeves mines evidence from archaeology sites and Paleolithic environments, landscapes, and mammalian and human migrations to make the case that people have been in the Western ... Read more

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  • The Ptarmigan's Dilemma

    An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports Itself

    by John Theberge, Mary Theberge ...
    **Winner of the 2010 Lane Anderson AwardDrawing on breakthrough research in evolution, genetics, and on their extensive work in the field and lab, wildlife biologists John and Mary Theberge explain for non-scientists the real facts of life.**Birds that suddenly grow gall bladders, when their species has none. Moose with antlers so big they encumber their movement through the forest. Butterflies ... Read more

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  • The Wolf's Tooth

    Keystone Predators, Trophic Cascades, and Biodiversity

    by Cristina Eisenberg ...
    Animals such as wolves, sea otters, and sharks exert a disproportionate influence on their environment; dramatic ecological consequences can result when they are removed from—or returned to—an ecosystem.In The Wolf's Tooth, scientist and author Cristina Eisenberg explores the concept of "trophic cascades" and the role of top predators in regulating ecosystems. Her fascinating and wide-ranging work ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World

    Ecology and Conservation

    Edited by Dominick A. DellaSala ...
    While tropical rainforests have received much conservation attention and support for their protection, temperate and boreal rainforests have been largely overlooked. Yet these ecosystems are also unique, supporting rainforest communities rich in plants and wildlife and containing some of the most massive trees on Earth.Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World brings together leading ... Read more

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  • Hunter-Gatherer Behavior

    Human Response During the Younger Dryas

    Edited by Metin I Eren ...
    A major global climate event called the Younger Dryas dramatically affected local environments and human populations at the end of the Pleistocene. This volume is the first book in fifteen years to comprehensively address key questions regarding the extent of this event and how hunter-gatherer populations adapted behaviorally and technologically in the face of major climatic change. An integrated ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • First Peoples in a New World

    Populating Ice Age America

    by David J. Meltzer ...
    Over 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers became the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found themselves in a world rich in plants and animals, but also a world still shivering itself out of the coldest depths of the Ice Age. The movement of those first Americans was one of the greatest journeys undertaken by ancient peoples. In this book, David Meltzer explores the world ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Climate Ghosts

    Migratory Species in the Anthropocene

    by Nancy Langston ...
    Series series The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
    Climate Ghosts deals with the important issue of climate change and human impact on three species: woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon.Environmental historian Nancy Langston explores three “ghost species” in the Great Lakes watershed—woodland caribou, common loons, and lake sturgeon. Ghost species are those that have not gone completely extinct, although they may be extirpated from a ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD