Register At NYTimes.com Natalie Angier reviews 'The Myth of Matriarchal prehistory Why an Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future' by Cynthia Eller. http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/09/17/reviews/000917.17angiert.html
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Alaska Historical Commission A forum for citizens' voices in the development of state history policy. Members advise the Governor on programs concerning history and prehistory, historic sites and buildings, and on geographic names. http://www.dnr.state.ak.us/parks/oha/histcomm/ahc.htm
Extractions: ALASKA HISTORICAL COMMISSION The Alaska Historical Commission is a forum for citizens' voices in the development of state history policy. Members advise the Governor on programs concerning history and prehistory, historic sites and buildings, and on geographic names. The nine-member commission includes the Lieutenant Governor, three citizens trained in history, architecture, or archaeology, an individual representing Native ethnic groups, two members recommended by the Alaska Historical Society, one member from the general public, and the State Historic Preservation Officer. Responsibilities of the Alaska Historical Commission include: Reviewing Alaskan prehistory and history materials now in print
Early Prehistory Of Alaska A region so large (one fifth the size of the continental United States), and diverse ecologically, physiologically, and culturally that any synthesis must be skeletal in nature. Provided here is a general description of the broad units of the cultural chronology of the area. http://www.nps.gov/akso/akarc/early.htm
Extractions: At the time of European contact, the coast of Alaska north of the Alaska Peninsula was occupied by people adapted to life along winter ice-bound coasts. They spoke two distinct Eskimoan languages. One was spoken eastward as far as Hudson's Bay; and a second was spoken by the Pacific coastal people of the region around Kodiak island and Prince William Sound, as well as around Norton Sound. From the tip of the Alaska Peninsula and westward throughout the Aleutian Islands, were found the Aleuts, who existed by open-water hunting and fishing and whose language was related to Eskimoan in an Eskaleutian language stock. The Alaskan interior was home to broadly adapted hunters and fishers of the boreal forest. Several distinct languages were spoken by these people, all part of the large Athabaskan family of languages, stretching throughout the boreal forest. The northern Northwest Coast was the home of the Eyak, Tlingit, and Haida, whose languages are sometimes included with Athabaskan in a Na-Dene linguistic phylum. Also dominating the landscape of Alaska is its hydrography. The largest river system is the Yukon and its tributaries, the Porcupine, the Tanana, and the Koyukon. The Yukon crosses Alaska in a WSW direction, emptying into the Bering Sea. Crossing the North Slope is the Colville River, which originates in the Brooks Range and terminates in the Arctic Ocean. In northwest Alaska are the Noatak and Kobuk Rivers with their numerous tributaries. The Kuskokwim River, draining the large Kuskokwim Delta, runs south of the Yukon River and also empties into the Bering Sea south of the Yukon and just north of the Alaska Peninsula. The southcentral region is marked by the Susitna River draining into Cook Inlet and the Copper River, which empties into Prince William Sound. Further south is the Alsek-Tatshenshini system, which drains into the Gulf of Alaska by way of Dry Bay.
Extractions: Bibliography Women as Warriors in Prehistory, the Ancient World and up to the 7th Century outside Europe Women as Warriors from 3500BC to the 20th Century The Rig-Veda, an ancient sacred poem of India, written between 3500 and 1800 BC recounts the story of a warrior, Queen Vishpla, who lost her leg in battle, was fitted with an iron prosthesis, and returned to battle. (source Prosthetic History Page
Reflections On Prehistory By James Q. Jacobs Offers an overview of prehistory ranging from topics on early hominids to regional discussions of prehistory in the Near East and the American Southwest. http://www.jqjacobs.net/anthro/prehisty.html
Extractions: 1. OUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS AND THEIR EVOLUTION Humans evolved in the context of a world system. Human societies remain a part of an ever-changing world system. Cosmological and terrestrial forces shaped our environment, climate and evolutionary path. Temporal variants are the grist of our evolutionary mill, producing changes and modification. Beneficial characteristics are survival selected and have produced evolutionary change. Four million years ago Australopithecus ramidus walked upright. So did
Extractions: Over a thousand years ago in the Southwest, two great cultures lived in relative peace and harmony, supporting thousands where today only ghosts and park rangers dwell. These were the Hohokam people of Central Arizona, the ancestors of the Pima and Tohono O'odham Indians, and the Hisatsinom of the Four Corners, the ancestors of the Hopi, Zuni, and Pueblo Indians. The Hisatsinom are known to many by their Navajo name, Anasazi. As part of my bibliographies on these great peoples, I've created a hotlist of sites devoted to them. If you have any additions, I'm glad to receive them via e-mail . Enjoy. Part of a web page promoting tourism in southwestern Colorado, this site on local archaeology includes a description and links to the major Hisatsinom ruins in the area.
Sassman, Kenneth Edwards Curriculum vitae of the University of Florida assistant professor. Specializes in the prehistory of the southeastern United States. http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/sassaman/pages/cv/cv.html
Extractions: According to ancient tradition, the Chinese were savages until a sage came along and taught them how to construct shelters. Later wise men taught, in succession, the use of fire, music and the cultivation of crops. The last of these sages was the Yellow Emperor Huangdi, the father of Chinese civilization. That tale, from the first century B.C., suggests that the process of human evolution took place in Chinaa notion that was boosted by the celebrated discovery in 1921 of Peking Man, a Homo erectus fossil unearthed outside Beijing. That led to claims, believed for decades in China, that Chinese were the earliest modern humans. These days, the claims are getting a rough shaking from hard scienceas is the notion that the Chinese are a unique, indigenous race. The Chinese Human Genome Diversity Project, a collaboration among 12 researchers from seven institutions, scrutinized DNA samples from 28 of China's 56 ethnic groups and then compared the samples with genetic material from other Asian and non-Asian groups. Their verdict: Chineselike the rest of humanityevolved in Africa. They migrated eastward along the Indian Ocean and made their way to China via Southeast Asia. "It is now safe to conclude," reported the researchers, "that modern humans originating in Africa constitute the majority of the current gene pool in Asian populations."
Ancient Scotland An extensive pictorial guide to the prehistory of Scotland http://www.ancient-scotland.co.uk/
Extractions: Photographer Welcome to the Ancient Scotland pages - a personal photographic view of some of the ancient sites of Scotland. Standing stones, stone circles, cairns amd burials, Pictish carved stones, cup-and-ring rock art, brochs, forts, and other aspects of Scottish prehistory are all represented. There are also some castles, abbeys, mediaeval villages and other sites that fall into the area of Scottish recorded history. Many are photographed and documented in great depth and detail, and all with a personal slant.
Venus Of Willendorf Illustrated essay by Christopher Witcombe of Sweet Briar College on this famous figure and the history of its discovery, with bibliography. http://witcombe.sbc.edu/willendorf/willendorfdiscovery.html
Extractions: The Venus of Willendorf Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe 1. DISCOVERY The most famous early image of a human, a woman, is the so-called "Venus" of Willendorf, found in 1908 by the archaeologist Josef Szombathy [see BIBLIOGRAPHY in an Aurignacian loess deposit in a terrace about 30 meters above the Danube near the town of Willendorf in Austria. The earliest notice of its discovery appeared in a report by the Yale anthropologist George Grant MacCurdy (1863-1947) who happened to be in Vienna in the summer of 1908. Although the greater part of the collection of finds from the site had not yet been unpacked, MacCurdy reported excitedly that before he left Vienna Szombathy had very kindly shown him a single remarkable specimen - a human figurine, full length, carved out of stone [see BIBLIOGRAPHY The statuette, which measures about 11.25 centimeters in length, is now in Vienna's Naturhistorisches Museum . It was carved from a fine porous oolitic limestone not found in the region and so must have been brought to the area from another location. It may well be the case that the carving, which was presumably done with flint tools, was not done locally. When first discovered the Venus of Willendorf was thought to date to approximately 15,000 to 10,000 BCE, or more or less to the same period as the cave paintings at
V.A.S.T.- African Prehistory Traces African histroy through folktales and scientific contributions. http://www.d-image.net/pages/1/index.htm
Anthropology | Faculty Bios Brief profile of this University of Chicago Assistant Professor. Research interests include prehistory and early history of southwest Asia. http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/faculty/bio/nicholas.html
Extractions: Nicholas T. Kouchoukos (PhD Yale 1998) Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College studies the later prehistory and early history of southwest Asia and the industrial archaeology of the southeastern United States with interests in material culture, urbanism, historical ecology, and the construction of space. Related research focuses on power and geographic knowledge through comparative study of systems of spatial representation, notably GIS, and on remote sensing methods in archaeology and arid-region ecology. nkouchou@uchicago.edu Publications: Landscape and Social Change in Late Prehistoric Mesopotamia. PhD dissertation, Yale University. 1998 Monitoring the distribution, use and regeneration of natural resources in semi-arid southwest Asia. In J. Albert, M. Bernhardsson, and R. Kenna, Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments. New Haven: Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. (w/R. Smith et al.). 2001 Satellite images and the representation of Near Eastern landscapes. Near Eastern Archaeology Yeki bud, Yeki nabud: Essays on the Archaeology of Iran in Honor of William M. Sumner
Dr P Halstead - Archaeology@sheffield Profile of this University of Sheffield Reader. Research interests include subsistence economics and the prehistory of southeast Europe. http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/ap/staff/halstead.html
Extractions: He is a member of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology Current research projects a) Neolithic Makrigialos . Helping to co-ordinate post-excavation study of the largest prehistoric excavation in Greece for nearly a century; Sheffield involvement in study of ceramics (Peter Day, Elli Hitsiou), human bone (Andrew Chamberlain, Sevi Triandaphyllou), animal bone (with Pat Collins), plant remains (Glynis Jones, S.-M.Valamoti) and geomorphology (Charles Frederick, A. Krahtopoulou). Scale of excavation (6 ha +) allows unprecedented insight into variation within this community. (Post-excavation funding from INSTAP, British Academy, University of Sheffield, British School at Athens, Getty Museum, Greek Archaeological Service. b) Recent woodland management in the Pindos mountains . Investigation through oral historical sources of recent management of deciduous oakwoods for stored leafy hay. Planned development is application of tree-ring analysis to nineteenth century woodland history. Comparative study under way of recent pollarding of ash trees ('cropping ashes') for fodder in Lake District, NW England.
Ancient Greek Civilizations Provides overview of Greek history including Minoan and Mycenian cultures, Homeric literature and myth. Read about the ancient cities Athens and Sparta. http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/prehistory/aegean/index.shtml
Extractions: History of Aegean Civilization Cultures of the Aegean The Cities of Greece Aspects of Culture and People in Ancient Greece Other Resources... About this Exhibit ... Jennifer Taylor (c) 1998 all rights reserved. Please Note: Works can be cited by listing the URL of this site for academic and student use.
Program In Aegean Scripts And Prehistory Specialized research into areas of Aegean and eastern Mediterranean prehistory and archaeology pertaining to inscribed or marked materials, at the Department of Classics at University of Texas at Austin. http://www.utexas.edu/research/pasp/
Prehistory And Disease A educational series created by the BBC that discusses the origins of modern medicine. http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/medicine/nonint/menus/prdtmenu.shtml
Richard W. Yerkes Curriculum vitae of this Ohio State University Associate Professor. Research interests include North American prehistory and subsistence. http://monkey.sbs.ohio-state.edu/CV/yerkes.htm
Extractions: CURRICULUM VITAE January, 2001 Richard W. Yerkes Department of Anthropology The Ohio State University 245 Lord Hall, 124 W.17th Ave. Columbus, Ohio Office Phone: EDUCATION Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin B.A. Anthropology, University of Wisconsin - Madison M.A. Anthropology, University of Wisconsin - Madison Ph.D. Anthropology, M.A. Thesis: The Analysis of Fish Bone and Scale Remains from the Larson Site (11-F-1109): A Spoon River Variant Mississippian Town in the Central Illinois Valley. Ph.D. Dissertation: Site Activities and Subsistence at the Labras Lake Site (11-S-299), St.Clair County, Illinois: A Functional and Contextual Investigation of the Late Archaic, Late Woodland, and Mississippian Components of a Bluff-base Site on the American Bottom. (Finalist, Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Research Leading to the Ph.D., 1984) RESEARCH INTERESTS North American Prehistory, Central European Archaeology, Levantine Prehistory, Microwear Analysis, Paleoenvironmental Studies, Geoarchaeology, Zooarchaeology, Economic Anthropology. HONORS Finalist, Outstanding Teaching Award. OSU College of Arts and Sciences
Malta - Archaeology And Prehistory Chronology of Maltese prehistory, with pictures of its Megalithic temples, part of the Malta Field Trip site by the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. http://users.aber.ac.uk/jpg/malta/arch.html
Extractions: Malta has always stood at the crossroads of the Mediterranean. People crossing from north to south, or from east to west, have all left a trace on the island. The most startling of these traces is to be found in the great Neolithic Temples which on Malta and Gozo. These were built 1000 years before the Pyramids, and are the oldest stone buildings in the world. I hope that you are impressed! The construction of these buildings demonstrate a mastery of quarrying, stone working, building and engraving techniques and must be the work of a mature, confident culture. Like stone circles in the British Isles some appear to be concerned with the passage of the seasons as indicated by the position of the Sun. To the geographer these structures are important because they indicate the presence of a very early (perhaps the earliest) civilization. We must ask the questions How did these people live? What was their impact on the environment? How has the islands environment changed and why?
Ancient Egyptian Culture Architecture, art, hieroglyphs, military, maps, and daily life. http://emuseum.mankato.msus.edu/prehistory/egypt/index.shtml
Prehistory Section Ancient technology and human prehistory in ancient civilizations of China, Egypt, Greece, India, Latin America, Mesopotamia, Vikings and North America. http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/
