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Author | : Carl R. Steen |
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Author | : Roy T. Sawyer |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2010-05-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0813929695 |
Download America's Wetland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The geologically ancient Tidewater region of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina rests precariously atop millions of years of erosion from the nearby Appalachian Mountains. An immense wetland at near sea level, it is host to every conceivable body of fresh water, ranging from brooding swamps and large hidden lakes to sluggish blackwater rivers and brackish sounds (one of which was so large an early explorer thought he had found the Pacific Ocean). In this engaging book, biologist and Tidewater native Roy T. Sawyer delivers an ecohistory of this unique waterland whose wind-driven tides cover a rich human and natural past. Jutting prominently into the Atlantic, this wetland is the final stop for the warmth of the Gulf Stream before it is deflected from the American mainland. At the top of a narrow, warm coastal strip, it provides an ideal home for a vast array of animal and plant life, including prodigious numbers of reptiles (such as the world’s northernmost population of alligators) and overwintering waterfowl. It is also home to the oldest known living trees east of the Rocky Mountains. The climate and geography made the area a natural choice for very early human habitation--as far back as the last ice age, when the region was a rich oasis just south of a veritable tundra. In examining the impact of humans upon this environment, and vice-versa, Sawyer reveals how our alarming shortsightedness has produced a fragile and endangered present. Although human manipulation started here as early as ten thousand years ago (coinciding with extinction of mammoths and other megafauna), the environment has been altered most radically over only the last one hundred years, particularly in regard to land drainage, deforestation, overfishing, and pollution. The author provides an authoritative overview of the human impact on these wetlands and suggests ways in which we might still salvage them. In so doing, he explores the effects of hurricanes, droughts, forest fires, and ice ages of the past--and anticipates, in this age of global warming, natural events that may be still to come.
Author | : Karen L. Cox |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813063647 |
Download Destination Dixie Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Once upon a time, it was impossible to drive through the South without coming across signs to “See Rock City” or similar tourist attractions. From battlegrounds to birthplaces, and sites in between, heritage tourism has always been part of how the South attracts visitors—and defines itself—yet such sites are often understudied in the scholarly literature. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the narrative of southern history told at these sites is often complicated by race, influenced by local politics, and shaped by competing memories. Included are essays on the meanings of New Orleans cemeteries; Stone Mountain, Georgia; historic Charleston, South Carolina; Yorktown National Battlefield; Selma, Alabama, as locus of the civil rights movement; and the homes of Mark Twain, Margaret Mitchell, and other notables. Destination Dixie reveals that heritage tourism in the South is about more than just marketing destinations and filling hotel rooms; it cuts to the heart of how southerners seek to shape their identity and image for a broader touring public—now often made up of northerners and southerners alike.
Author | : Elizabeth A. Cahoon |
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Download The History and Restoration of Somerset Place State Historic Site Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Carl Steen |
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Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Download The Somerset Place Restoration Excavations, 1994 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : John Edward Byrd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Download Report of Survey and Excavations in the Formal Garden Area, Somerset Place State Historic Site (31WH14) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Barbara J. Mitnick |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2007-03-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081354095X |
Download New Jersey in the American Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This remarkably comprehensive anthology brings new life to the rich and turbulent late 18th-century period in New Jersey. Originally conceived for the state's 225th Anniversary of the Revolution Celebration Commission.
Author | : H. Trawick Ward |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2018-06-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 146964777X |
Download Time before History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
North Carolina's written history begins in the sixteenth century with the voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh and the founding of the ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island. But there is a deeper, unwritten past that predates the state's recorded history. The region we now know as North Carolina was settled more than 10,000 years ago, but because early inhabitants left no written record, their story must be painstakingly reconstructed from the fragmentary and fragile archaeological record they left behind. Time before History is the first comprehensive account of the archaeology of North Carolina. Weaving together a wealth of information gleaned from archaeological excavations and surveys carried out across the state--from the mountains to the coast--it presents a fascinating, readable narrative of the state's native past across a vast sweep of time, from the Paleo-Indian period, when the first immigrants to North America crossed a land bridge that spanned the Bering Strait, through the arrival of European traders and settlers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Author | : Clarence R. Geier |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2017-02-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781541023482 |
Download The Historical Archaeology of Virginia from Initial Settlement to the Present Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The book includes six chapters that cover Virginia history from initial settlement through the 20th century plus one that deals with the important role of underwater archaeology. Written by prominent archaeologists with research experience in their respective topic areas, the chapters consider important issues of Virginia history and consider how the discipline of historic archaeology has addressed them and needs to address them . Changes in research strategy over time are discussed , and recommendations are made concerning the need to recognize the diverse and often differing roles and impacts that characterized the different regions of Virginia over the course of its historic past. Significant issues in Virginia history needing greater study are identified.
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Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Canada |
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Download America, History and Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.