American Antiquity: Volume 51 - Issue 2

Linguistic Adaptation and the Great Basin
David Leedom Shaul
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It has been proposed that the spread of the Numic languages (and peoples) across the Great Basin from their California homeland correlates with a shift archaeologically in the area from a hunting focus to a seed-gathering focus, and that this shift may represent a Numic replacement of the non-Numic hunters. The actual linguistic adaptations of attested foraging groups contradict this idea: linguistic homogeneity will persist over large areas where a foraging economy is practiced. This is due partly to the incest taboo (the local social organization is a form of biological family) and partly to the adaptive advantage a mutually intelligible language gives foragers when food resources fail and the local group is dispersed among kin. Linguistic diversification among foragers is maladaptive, and dialect chains among foragers may persist through millennia over vast areas. Technological shifts could easily diffuse through such networks.

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Constructing Civilizations. Carl J. Couch, Contemporary Studies in Sociology, vol. 5, John Clark, editor-in-chief. Jai Press, Inc., Greenwich, 1984. xvii + 401 pp., references, indices. $23.75 (cloth).
C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
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20 January 2017, p. 428
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Susquehanna's Indians. Barry C. Kent. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Anthopological Series, No. 6, Barry C. Kent, editor. Harrisburg,State University of New York 1984. xi + 438 pp., figures, tables, biblio., appendix, index. $15.95 (cloth).
Dean Snow
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Those Who Have Vanished: An Introduction to Prehistory. Ronald Wallace. Dorsey Press, Homewood, Illinois, 1983. xiii + 527 pp., illustrations, glossary, index. $26.95 (cloth). - Clash of Cultures. Brian M. Fagan, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York, 1984. xi + 318 pp., references, index. $15.95 (paper); $28.95 (cloth). - Mexico. Michael D. Coe, Thames and Hudson, New York, 1984 (third edition revised and enlarged). 180 pp., illustrations, selected bibliography, text references, index. $9.95 (paper).
Robert Wenke
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The Fish Lake Site. Andrew C. Fortier, Richard B. Lacampagne, and Fred A. Finney. American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Site Reports Vol. 8, University of Illinois Press, Chicago, 1984. xi + 242 pp., figures, tables, references, appendices. $10.95 (paper). - The Mien Site. George Milner assisted by Joyce A. Williams. American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Site Reports Vol. 7, University of Illinois Press, Chicago, 1984. xi + 281 pp., figures, tables, references, appendices. $11.95 (paper).
David S. Brose
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Perspectives on Gulf Coast Prehistory. Dave D. Davis, editor. Ripley P. Bullen Monographs in Anthropology and History, Jerald T. Milanich, general editor. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, 1984. xi + 379 pp., figures, references, index. $24.50 (cloth).
James E. Price
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Investigations at Edzna, Campeche, Mexico, Volume 1; Parts 1 and 2: The Hydraulic System. Ray T. Matheny, D. Gurr, D. Forsyth, and F. R. Hauck. Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, No. 46, Brigham Young University, Provo, 1983. xviii + 239 pp., figures, tables, charts, appendices, references, boxed maps. $25.00 (cloth) (sold as set only). - Investigations at Edzna, Campeche, Mexico, Volume 2: Ceramics. Donald Forsyth, Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, No. 46, Brigham Young University, Provo, 1983. xiii + 249 pp., figures, table, references. $25.00 (cloth) (sold as set only).
Robert Fry
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The Stucco Decoration and Architectural Assemblage of Structure 1-sub, Dzibilchaltun, Yucatan, Mexico. Clemency Coggins, Middle American Research Institute Publication 49, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1983. vii + 70 pp., illus., appendix, references. $15.00 (paper)
Arthur G. Miller
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Prehistory of the Ayacucho Basin, Peru, Volume IV: The Preceramic Way of Life. RICHARD S. Macneish, Robert K. Vierra, Antoinette Nelken-Terner, Rochelle Lurie, and Angel Garcia Cook. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1983. v + 288 pp., figures, tables, biblio., index. $45.00 (cloth).
Joan M. Gero
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Advances in Abandoned Settlement Analysis: Application to Prehistoric Anthrosols in Colombia, South America. Robert Eidt. Center for Latin America, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1984. xiv + 159 pp., figures, tables, appendices, selected biblio., index. $12.50 (paper).
Fekri A. Hassan
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“An Appearance of Strength.” The Fortifications of Louisbourg, Volumes 1 and 2. Bruce W. Fry. Studies in Archaeology, Architecture, and History, National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada, Quebec, 1984. 214 pp., appendices, glossary, selected bibliography (vol. 1); 212 pp., illustrations (vol. 2). $23.00 (in Canada); $27.50 (outside Canada) a set.
Margaret K. Brown
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The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe. Albert J. Ammerman, and L. L. Cavalli-Sforza. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1984. xv + 176 pp., figures, tables, appendix, biblio., index. $25.00 (cloth). - Farms, Villages, and Cities: Commerce and Urban Origins in Late Prehistoric Europe. Peter S. Wells. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1984. 270 pp., illustrations, classical sources cited, references cited, index. $14.95 (paper); $32.50 (cloth).
T. Douglas Price
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A Frontier Fur Trade Blacksmith Shop 1796-1812. John D. Light, and Henry Unglik. Studies in Archaeology, Architecture and History, National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada, Quebec, 1984. 130 pp., figures, tables, appendices, references. $7.45 (Canada); $8.95 (outside Canada) (paper).
Henry A. Baker
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Elmwood: The Historic Archaeology of a Southeastern Louisiana Plantation. R. Christopher Goodwin, Jill-Karen Yakubik, and Cyd Heymann Goodwin. Jefferson Parish Historical Commission, Metairie, Louisiana, and R. Goodwin Association Inc., New Orleans, 1984. ix + 70 pp., figures, tables, glossary, references cited. $15.00 (paper).
Edward E. Chaney
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Elements of Southeastern Indian Religion. Charles Hudson, Iconography of Religions X. Institute of Religious Iconography, State University Groningen. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1984. 36 pp., illus. $20.00 (paper).
Vernon James Knight, Jr.
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Hunters of the Forest Edge: Culture, Time, and Process in the Little Caney Basin. Kenneth C. Reid, and Joe Alan Artz. University of Tulsa Laboratory of Archaeology, Contributions in Archaeology 14, Oklahoma Archeological Survey Studies in Oklahoma's Past Number 13, Oklahoma Archeological Survey, Norman, 1984. xxiv + 252 pp., figures, tables, references cited, appendices. $9.00 (paper).
Burton L. Purrington
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Excavations at the Granada Site: Archaeology and History of the Granada Site. vol. I. John W. Griffin, Sue B. Richardson, Mary Pohl, Carl D. McMurray, C. Margaret Scarry, Suzanne K. Fish, Elizabeth S. Wing, L. Jill Loucks, and Marcia Welch. Florida Division of Archives, History and Records Management, Tallahassee, n.d. xi + 412 pp., figures, tables, plates, bibliography. No charge (paper). - Where the River Found the Bay Historical Study of the Granada Site, Miami, Florida: Archaeology and History of the Granada Site, vol. II. Arva Moore Parks, Florida Division of Archives, History and Records Management, Tallahassee, n.d. iii + 171 pp., illustrations, appendices, bibliography. No charge (paper).
Michael Russo
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Logging Railroads of the Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico. Vernon J. Glover, Cultural Resources Management Report No. 4, USDA Forest Service, Southwestern Region, 1984. iv + 65 pp., figures, tables, appendix, references cited. No charge (paper). - Stage 1 Site Locational Modeling in the Southwestern Region. Linda S. Cordel, and Dee F. Green, editors. Cultural Resources Management Report No. 5, USDA Forest Service, Southwestern Region, 1984. v + 109 pp., maps, figures, tables, references. No charge (paper).
Katherine A. Spielmann
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Constructing Civilizations. Carl J. Couch, Contemporary Studies in Sociology, vol. 5, John Clark, editor-in-chief. Jai Press, Inc., Greenwich, 1984. xvii + 401 pp., references, indices. $23.75 (cloth).

Susquehanna's Indians. Barry C. Kent. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Anthopological Series, No. 6, Barry C. Kent, editor. Harrisburg,State University of New York 1984. xi + 438 pp., figures, tables, biblio., appendix, index. $15.95 (cloth).

Perspectives on Gulf Coast Prehistory. Dave D. Davis, editor. Ripley P. Bullen Monographs in Anthropology and History, Jerald T. Milanich, general editor. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, 1984. xi + 379 pp., figures, references, index. $24.50 (cloth).

The Stucco Decoration and Architectural Assemblage of Structure 1-sub, Dzibilchaltun, Yucatan, Mexico. Clemency Coggins, Middle American Research Institute Publication 49, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1983. vii + 70 pp., illus., appendix, references. $15.00 (paper)

Prehistory of the Ayacucho Basin, Peru, Volume IV: The Preceramic Way of Life. RICHARD S. Macneish, Robert K. Vierra, Antoinette Nelken-Terner, Rochelle Lurie, and Angel Garcia Cook. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1983. v + 288 pp., figures, tables, biblio., index. $45.00 (cloth).

Advances in Abandoned Settlement Analysis: Application to Prehistoric Anthrosols in Colombia, South America. Robert Eidt. Center for Latin America, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1984. xiv + 159 pp., figures, tables, appendices, selected biblio., index. $12.50 (paper).

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A Frontier Fur Trade Blacksmith Shop 1796-1812. John D. Light, and Henry Unglik. Studies in Archaeology, Architecture and History, National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada, Quebec, 1984. 130 pp., figures, tables, appendices, references. $7.45 (Canada); $8.95 (outside Canada) (paper).

Elements of Southeastern Indian Religion. Charles Hudson, Iconography of Religions X. Institute of Religious Iconography, State University Groningen. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1984. 36 pp., illus. $20.00 (paper).

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