Author: Charles Fairbanks File Type: pdf A Dan Josselyn Memorial PublicationA premier mound site offers a wealth of primary data on mortuary practices in the Mississippian Period.The largest prehistoric mound site in Georgia is located in modern-day Macon and is known as Ocmulgee. It was first recorded in August 1739 by General James Oglethorpes rangers during an expedition to the territory of the Lower Creeks. The botanist William Bartram wrote extensively of the ecology of the area during his visit in 1773, but the 1873 volume by Charles C. Jones, Antiquities of the Southern Indians, Particularly of the Georgia Tribes, was the first to treat the archaeological significance of the site.Professional excavations began at Ocmulgee in 1933 under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, using Civil Works Administration labor. Investigations continued under a variety of sponsorships until December 1936, when the locality was formally named a national monument. Excavation of the mounds, village sites, earth lodge, and funeral mound revealed an occupation of the Macon Plateau spanning more than 7,000 years. The funeral mound was found to contain log tombs, bundles of disarticulated bones, flexed burials, and cremations. Grave goods included uniquely patterned copper sun disks that were found at only one other site in the Southeastthe Bessemer site in Alabamaso the two ceremonial centers were established as contemporaries.In this classic work of archaeological research and analysis, Charles Fairbanks has not only offered a full treatment of the cultural development and lifeways of the builders of Ocmulgee but has also related them effectively to other known cultures of the prehistoric Southeast.**

Author: István Fzy File Type: pdf Istvan Fozy and Istvan Szente provide a comprehensive review of the fossil record of the Carpathian Basin in modern-day Hungary. The Fossils of the Carpathian Region describes and illustrates the regions fossils, recounts their history, and tells the stories of key people involved in paleontological research in the area. In addition to covering all the important fossils of this region, special attention is given to rare finds and complete skeletons. The regions fossils range from tiny foraminifera to the huge Transylvanian dinosaurs, mastodons, and mammals. The book also gives nonspecialists the opportunity to gain a basic understanding of paleontology. Sidebars present brief biographies of important figures and explain how to collect, prepare, and interpret fossils.

Author: Brian R. Hamnett File Type: pdf The second edition of this accessible study of Mexico, first published in 2006, includes two new features, an examination of cultural developments since Independence from Spain in 1821 and a discussion of contemporary issues up to the time of publication. Several new plates with captions expand the thematic coverage in the book. The updated edition examines the administration of Vicente Fox, who came to power with the elections of 2000. The new sections reinforce the importance of Mexicos long and disparate history, from the Precolumbian era onwards, in shaping the country as it is today. This Concise History looks at Mexico from political, economic and cultural perspectives, and tackles controversial themes such as the impact of the Spanish Conquest and the struggle to establish an independent Mexico. A broad range of readers interested in the modern-day Americas should find here a helpful introduction to this vibrant and dynamic North-American society.Review ... the book ... invites debate among scholars. General readers will find it a useful ... introduction to Mexican history. The Times Literary Supplement The great difference between this book and its predecessors is a periodisation which corresponds to the most recent debates in Mexican historiography and an innovative approach to the history of the indigenous American peoples. This is a periodisation, which allows for the identification of continuities as well as dividing lines. In such a way, the traditional turning-points at 1810 and 1910, have been set within their respective contexts, the period of Destabilisation and Fragmentation (1770-1867) and a period of Reconstruction (1867-1940). Raymond Buve, HISTORIA LATINOAMERICANA EN EUROPA While providing a clear and yet highly sophisticated synthesis of the main themes that have characterised Mexicos development from the pre-Columbian era to the present, Hamnett also revises the periodisation that has generally been accepted in the traditional historiography. In other words, he has succeeded in pulling off a near-impossible feat to provide the newcomer to Mexico with an engaging introduction to the countrys history and provoke the specialists into rethinking the way historians have tended to portray the countrys political progression, in particular from colony to nation-state. Moreover, Hamnetts synthesis, in incorporating the different interpretations that have come to be espoused over the last twenty years, provides a refreshingly novel and revisionist approach to the subject. Will Fowler, Journal of Latin American Studies Hamnett develops this Concise History of Mexico in a way which shows the interrelation of political, economic, social and cultural elements, thereby deepening the analysis beyond descriptive history. This can be seen from the opening, Mexico in Perspective, which deals with themes such as Mexican migration to the United States, the frontier question, the drug trade, the North-American Free Trade Area Treaty, and the generally complicated nature of relations between Mexico and the United States. At the same time, he examines what he has called the Indian question, deeply problematic and very much alive. In such a way, he begins this study of the inequalities and contrasts, many of them rooted in Mexican history and rarely studied like this until now. MARIA JUSTINA SARABIA VIEJO, ANUARIO DE ESTUDIOS AMERICANOS A superior, accessible history of Mexico that does full justice to the origins of the countrys complex multiethnic and multicultural texture. Kenneth Maxwell, Foreign Affairs ... a survey of Mexican history which makes for a perfect introduction for either general or high school readers. Reviewers Bookwatch Hamnett develops this Concise History of Mexico in a way which shows the interrelation of political, economic, social and cultural elements, thereby deepening the analysis beyond descriptive history. Anuario de Estudios Americanos Book DescriptionThe second edition of this accessible study of Mexico brings the story up to date with an examination of the presidency of Vicente Fox since 2000 and a new section on the countrys cultural development since 1821. It offers an integrated account of Mexicos political, social, economic and cultural history.

Author: Steven G. Smith File Type: pdf An original metaphysical proposal building on classical and contemporary sources. In Centering and Extending, Steven G. Smith retrieves and refashions some of the best ideas of classical and early modern metaphysics to support insight into the natures of mental and material beings and their relations. Avoiding what he critiques as distortive paths of idealism, materialism, repressive monism, and overly permissive pluralism, Smith builds his framework on centering and extending as universal principles of formation. Identifying the basic consistency of being with these principles in symmetrical partnership enables a naturalist process view that, unlike Whiteheads, does not overbalance toward the subjective and teleological and, unlike Deleuze and Guattaris, does not overbalance toward the material and chaotic. This view supports useful conceptions of mind and matter, form and energy, reason and cause, and a layered world order without relying on a blind concept of supervenience or emergence. It also respects and reinforces a division of roles between metaphysical sense-making and spiritual determinations of meaningfulness. Steven G. Smith is Jennie Carlisle Golding Professor of Philosophy at Millsaps College. He is the author of several books, including Worth Doing, also published by SUNY Press. **Review This is a highly original, speculative, and deeply learned metaphysical treatise on the basic categories of existence needed to account for human experience of the world. It contributes to the contemporary metaphysical discussion in Western philosophy by adding a new, intelligent, and interesting voice. Robert Cummings Neville, author of Ultimates Philosophical Theology, Volume One This is a highly original, speculative, and deeply learned metaphysical treatise on the basic categories of existence needed to account for human experience of the world. It contributes to the contemporary metaphysical discussion in Western philosophy by adding a new, intelligent, and interesting voice. -- Robert Cummings Neville, author of Ultimates Philosophical Theology, Volume One About the Author Steven G. Smith is Jennie Carlisle Golding Professor of Philosophy at Millsaps College. He is the author of several books, including Worth Doing, also published by SUNY Press.