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  • HUMANS
    ALICE BECK KEHOE / ANDREW J PETTO
    Humans is a concise, jargon-free introduction to four-field anthropology. This book outlines and breaks down a complex discipline to identify some of the most important and relevant questions in anthropology. It provides students with an understanding of the unity of the human species, the adaptation of societies to their environments (physical and political), and an appreciati...

    $1,040.00

  • NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
    ALICE BECK KEHOE
    Written in an easy-to-read, narrative format, this volume provides the most comprehensive coverage of North American Indians from earliest evidence through 1990. It shows Indians as "a people with history" and not as primitives, covering current ideological issues and political situations including treaty rights, sovereignty, and repatriation. A must-read for anyone interested ...

    $1,800.00

  • NORTH AMERICA BEFORE THE EUROPEAN INVASIONS
    ALICE BECK KEHOE
    North America Before the European Invasions tells the histories of North American peoples from first migrations in the Late Glacial Age, sixteen thousand years ago or more, to the European invasions following Columbus’s arrival. Contrary to invaders’ propaganda, North America was no wilderness, and its peoples had developed a variety of sophisticated resource uses, including in...

    $1,340.00

  • CONTROVERSIES IN ARCHAEOLOGY
    ALICE BECK KEHOE
    Atlantis, ancient astronauts, and pyramid power. Archaeologists are perennially bombarded with questions about the “mysteries” of the past. They are also constantly addressing more realistic controversies: origins of the First Americans, the ownership of antiquities, and national claims to historical territories. Alice Beck Kehoe offers to introductory students a method of eval...

    $1,240.00

  • TRAVELING PREHISTORIC SEAS
    ALICE BECK KEHOE
    Until recently the theory that people could have traversed large expanses of ocean in prehistoric times was considered pseudoscience. But recent discoveries in places as disparate as Australia, Labrador, Crete, California, and Chile open the possibility that ancient oceans were highways, not barriers, and that ancient people possessed the means and motives to traverse them. In ...

    $1,120.00

  • THE LAND OF PREHISTORY
    ALICE BECK KEHOE
    First published in 1998. The Land of Prehistory reveals the powerful ideological function American archaeology has naively served, from the discipline's construction in Victorian societal reform movements to the present. Alice Beck Kehoe chronicles major movements and influences such as the support of racist Spencerian evolutionism and Manifest Destiny ideologies, and the 1960s...

    $1,560.00

  • AMERICA BEFORE THE EUROPEAN INVASIONS
    ALICE BECK KEHOE
    Beginning with the immigrants from Asia, through inventions of agriculture, cities and kingdoms, American First Nations are integral to the history of the United States. They explored the continent, pioneered its waterways and mountain passes, cleared forests, irrigated deserts, and ranched its great plains. Invading Europeans justifies their conquests by denying the evidence o...

    $1,380.00