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Time Before History
Ward, H. Trawick; Davis, R. P. Stephen, Jr.
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Description for Time Before History
Paperback. An account of the archaeology of North Carolina. It weaves together information gleaned from excavations and surveys carried out across the state, and presents a narrative of the state's native past across a vast sweep of time, from the Paleo-Indian period to the arrival of the Europeans. Num Pages: 368 pages, 84 illustrations, 7 maps, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; HBJK; HBLC; HBLH; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807847800
SKU
V9780807847800
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About Ward, H. Trawick; Davis, R. P. Stephen, Jr.
H. Trawick Ward is a research archaeologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He collaborated with Vincas P. Steponaitis, R. P. Stephen Davis, and Patrick Livingood to create Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century Indian Village in North Carolina, an award-winning CD-ROM multimedia publication.|R. P. Stephen Davis Jr. is a research archaeologist at the University of ... Read more
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