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Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany
University Press of Colorado
Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary study of human relationships with the natural world. Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany demonstrates those connections and highlights the increasing relevance of the study of past human-plant interactions for understanding the present and future.
Old Blue's Road
A Historian's Motorcycle Journeys in the American West
University Press of Colorado
Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World
Edited by Benjamin S. Arbuckle and Sue Ann McCarty
University Press of Colorado
Wyoming Revisited
Rephotographing the Scenes of Joseph E. Stimson
University Press of Colorado
In Wyoming Revisited, Michael A. Amundson uses the power of rephotography to show how landscapes across the state have endured over the last century. Three sets of photographs—the original black-and-white photographs taken by famed Wyoming photographer Joseph E. Stimson more than a century ago, repeat black-and-white images taken by Amundson in the 1980s, and a third view taken by the author in 2007–08—are accompanied by captions explaining the history and importance of each site as well as information on the process of repeat photographic fieldwork.
Sacred Darkness
A Global Perspective on the Ritual Use of Caves
Edited by Holley Moyes
University Press of Colorado
. In Sacred Darkness, contributors use archaeological evidence as well as ethnographic studies of modern ritual practices to envision the cave as place of spiritual and ideological power that emerges as a potent venue for ritual practice.
Gambling Debt
Iceland's Rise and Fall in the Global Economy
Edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Gisli Palsson
University Press of Colorado
Elusive Unity
Factionalism and the Limits of Identity Politics in Yucatán, Mexico
University Press of Colorado
In Elusive Unity, Armstrong-Fumero examines early twentieth-century peasant politics and twenty-first-century indigenous politics in the rural Oriente region of Yucatán.
Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East
Recent Contributions from Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology
Edited by Benjamin W. Porter and Alexis T. Boutin
University Press of Colorado
Class Not Dismissed
Reflections on Undergraduate Education and Teaching the Liberal Arts
University Press of Colorado
In Class Not Dismissed, award-winning professor Anthony Aveni tells the personal story of his six decades in college classrooms and some of the 10,000 students who have filled them. Through anecdotes of his own triumphs and tribulations—some amusing, others heartrending—Aveni reveals his teaching story and thoughts on the future of higher education.
No One Ailing Except a Physician
Medicine in the Mining West, 1848-1919
By Duane A. Smith and Ronald C. Brown
University Press of Colorado
No One Ailing Except a Physician takes readers back to those free-wheeling days in the mining towns and the dark recesses of the mines themselves, a time when illness or injury was usually survived more due to sheer luck than the interventions of medicine.
Obsidian Reflections
Symbolic Dimensions of Obsidian in Mesoamerica
Edited by David M. Carballo and Marc Levine
University Press of Colorado
Departing from the political economy perspective taken by the vast majority of volumes devoted to Mesoamerican obsidian, Obsidian Reflections is an examination of obsidian's sociocultural dimensions—particularly in regard to Mesoamerican world view, religion, and belief systems.
Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology
From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains
Edited by Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado
University Press of Colorado
As the Ice Age waned, Clovis hunter-gatherers began to explore and colonize the area now known as Colorado. Their descendents and later Paleoindian migrants spread throughout Colorado's plains and mountains, adapting to diverse landforms and the changing climate. In this new volume, Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado assemble experts in archaeology, paleoecology-climatology, and paleofaunal analysis to share new discoveries about these ancient people of Colorado
The Evolution of Ceramic Production Organization in a Maya Community
University Press of Colorado
In The Evolution of Production Organization in a Maya Community, Dean E. Arnold continues his unique approach to ceramic ethnoarchaeology, tracing the history of potters in Ticul, Yucatán, and their production space over a period of more than four decades. This follow-up to his 2008 work Social Change and the Evolution of Ceramic Production and Distribution uses narrative to trace the changes in production personnel and their spatial organization through the changes in production organization in Ticul.
Industrializing the Rockies
Growth, Competition, and Turmoil in the Coalfields of Colorado and Wyoming, 1868-1914
University Press of Colorado
In Industrializing the Rockies, David A. Wolff places the deadly conflicts and strikes as well as the racial tensions and the economics of the coal industry in the context of the Western coal industry from its inception in 1868 to the age of maturity in the early twentieth century. The result is the first book-length study of the emergence of coalfield labor relations and a general overview of the role of coal mining in the American West.
A Prehistory of South America
Ancient Cultural Diversity on the Least Known Continent
University Press of Colorado
Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World
From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century
By Justyna Olko
University Press of Colorado
Texcoco
Prehispanic and Colonial Perspectives
Edited by Jongsoo Lee and Galen Brokaw
University Press of Colorado
Basic Veterinary Immunology
By Gerald N. Callahan and Robin M. Yates
University Press of Colorado
Man in the Moon
Essays on Fathers and Fatherhood
Edited by Stephanie G'Schwind
University Press of Colorado, Center for Literary Publishing
Wearing Culture
Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America
Edited by Heather Orr and Matthew Looper
University Press of Colorado
The Great Maya Droughts in Cultural Context
Case Studies in Resilience and Vulnerability
Edited by Gyles Iannone
University Press of Colorado
Material Relations
The Marriage Figurines of Prehispanic Honduras
University Press of Colorado
Starting from Loomis and Other Stories
By Hiroshi Kashiwagi; Edited by Tim Yamamura
University Press of Colorado
Re-Creating Primordial Time
Foundation Rituals and Mythology in the Postclassic Maya Codices
University Press of Colorado
Re-Creating Primordial Time offers a new perspective on the Maya codices, documenting the extensive use of creation mythology and foundational rituals in the hieroglyphic texts and iconography of these important manuscripts. Focusing on both pre-Columbian codices and early colonial creation accounts, Vail and Hernández show that in spite of significant cultural change during the Postclassic and Colonial periods, the mythological traditions reveal significant continuity, beginning as far back as the Classic period.
Mercury and the Making of California
Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890
University Press of Colorado
Mercury and the Making of California raises mercury to its rightful place alongside gold and silver in their defining roles in the development of the American West.
Helen Ring Robinson
Colorado Senator and Suffragist
By Pat Pascoe
University Press of Colorado
Helen Ring Robinson is the first book to focus on this important figure in the women's suffrage movement and the 1913, 1914, and 1915 sessions of the Colorado General Assembly.
Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920
Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies
University Press of Colorado
Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920 traces the history of radicalism in the Populist Party, Socialist Party, Western Federation of Miners, and Industrial Workers of the World in Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. Focusing on the populist and socialist movements, David R. Berman sheds light on American radicalism with this study of a region that epitomized its rise and fall. As the frontier industrialized, self-reliant pioneers and prospectors transformed into wage- laborers for major corporations with government, military, and church ties.
Lousy Sex
University Press of Colorado
In Lousy Sex Gerald Callahan explores the science of self, illustrating the immune system’s role in forming individual identity. Blending the scientific essay with deeply personal narratives, these poignant and enlightening stories use microbiology and immunology to explore a new way to answer the question, who am I?
Gambling on Ore
The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 1860–1910
By Kent Curtis
University Press of Colorado
Gambling on Ore examines the development of the western mining industry from the tumultuous and violent Gold Rush to the elevation of large-scale copper mining in the early twentieth century, using Montana as representative of mining developments in the broader US mining west.
Wide Rivers Crossed
The South Platte and the Illinois of the American Prairie
University Press of Colorado
In Wide Rivers Crossed, Ellen Wohl tells the stories of two rivers—the South Platte on the western plains and the Illinois on the eastern—to represent the environmental history and historical transformation of major rivers across the American prairie. Wohl begins with the rivers’ natural histories, including their geologic history, physical characteristics, ecological communities, and earliest human impacts, and follows a downstream and historical progression from the use of the rivers’ resources by European immigrants through increasing population density of the twentieth century to the present day.
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