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Constant Battles

Why We Fight

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Katherine E. Register

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Constant Battles

Why We Fight

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Katherine E. Register

The author argues that warfare has been a part of human existence throughout history, and considers whether humans are doomed by genetic heritage to fight each other.

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Macmillan

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0312310900

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9780312310905

Painted by a Distant Hand

Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest

By: Steven A. LeBlanc

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Painted by a Distant Hand

Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest

By: Steven A. LeBlanc

Highlighting one of the Peabody Museum's most important archaeological expeditions—the excavation of the Swarts Ranch Ruin in southwestern New Mexico by Harriet and Burton Cosgrove in the mid-1920s—Steven LeBlanc's book features rare, never-before-published examples of Mimbres painted pottery, considered by many scholars to be the most unique of all the ancient art traditions of North America. Made between A.D. 1000 and 1150, these pottery bowls and jars depict birds, fish, insects, and mammals that the Mimbres encountered in their daily lives, portray mythical beings, and show humans participating in both ritual and everyday activities. LeBlanc traces the origins of the Mimbres people and what became of them, and he explores our present understanding of what the images mean and what scholars have learned about the Mimbres people in the 75 years since the Cosgroves' expedition.

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Harvard University Press

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0873654021

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9780873654029

Painted by a Distant Hand

Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest

By: Steven A. LeBlanc

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Mimbres Pottery from the American Southwest

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Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley

Continuity and Change from Ad 750 to 1350

By: Roger Anyon,Steven A. LeBlanc

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Ancient Communities in the Mimbres Valley

Continuity and Change from Ad 750 to 1350

By: Roger Anyon,Steven A. LeBlanc

Spanning from the end of the Classic Mimbres period to the Black Mountain phase, this volume contains the final report on the excavations of the Mimbres Foundation. The authors consider the nature of the relationship between the Classic Mimbres period population of the valley and the people of the succeeding Black Mountain phase, as well as relationships among the Black Mountain phase people and those of neighboring parts of the region"--

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University of Arizona Press

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0816552746

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9780816552740

Symbols in Clay

Seeking Artists’ Identities in Hopi Yellow Ware Bowls

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Lucia R. Henderson

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Symbols in Clay

Seeking Artists’ Identities in Hopi Yellow Ware Bowls

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Lucia R. Henderson

In late prehistory, the ancestors of the present-day Hopi in Arizona created a unique and spectacular painted pottery tradition referred to as Hopi Yellow Ware. This ceramic tradition, which includes Sikyatki Polychrome pottery, inspired Hopi potter Nampeyo’s revival pottery at the turn of the twentieth century. How did such a unique and unprecedented painting style develop? The authors compiled a corpus of almost 2,000 images of Hopi Yellow Ware bowls from the Peabody Museum’s collection and other museums. Focusing their work on the exterior, glyphlike painted designs of these bowls, they found that the “glyphs” could be placed into sets and apparently acted as a kind of signature. The authors argue that part-time specialists were engaged in making this pottery and that relatively few households manufactured Hopi Yellow Ware during the more than 300 years of its production.Extending the Peabody’s influential Awatovi project of the 1930s, Symbols in Clay calls into question deep-seated assumptions about pottery production and specialization in the precontact American Southwest.

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Harvard University Press

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0873652126

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9780873652124

Mimbres Life and Society

The Mattocks Site of Southwestern New Mexico

By: Patricia A. Gilman,Steven A. LeBlanc

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Mimbres Life and Society

The Mattocks Site of Southwestern New Mexico

By: Patricia A. Gilman,Steven A. LeBlanc

This book offers a detailed account of the archaeological excavation of one of the last possible Mimbres Classic pueblos, including photography of the painted black-on-white pottery--Provided by publisher.

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University of Arizona Press

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0816535639

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9780816535637

Constant Battles

Why We Fight

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Katherine E. Register

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Why We Fight

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Katherine E. Register

With armed conflict in the Persian Gulf now upon us, Harvard archaeologist Steven LeBlanc takes a long-term view of the nature and roots of war, presenting a controversial thesis: The notion of the "noble savage" living in peace with one another and in harmony with nature is a fantasy. In Constant Battles: The Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage, LeBlanc contends that warfare and violent conflict have existed throughout human history, and that humans have never lived in ecological balance with nature. The start of the second major U.S. military action in the Persian Gulf, combined with regular headlines about spiraling environmental destruction, would tempt anyone to conclude that humankind is fast approaching a catastrophic end. But as LeBlanc brilliantly argues, the archaeological record shows that the warfare and ecological destruction we find today fit into patterns of human behavior that have gone on for millions of years. Constant Battles surveys human history in terms of social organization-from hunter gatherers, to tribal agriculturalists, to more complex societies. LeBlanc takes the reader on his own digs around the world -- from New Guinea to the Southwestern U.S. to Turkey -- to show how he has come to discover warfare everywhere at every time. His own fieldwork combined with his archaeological, ethnographic, and historical research, presents a riveting account of how, throughout human history, people always have outgrown the carrying capacity of their environment, which has led to war. Ultimately, though, LeBlanc's point of view is reassuring and optimistic. As he explains the roots of warfare in human history, he also demonstrates that warfare today has far less impact than it did in the past. He also argues that, as awareness of these patterns and the advantages of modern technology increase, so does our ability to avoid war in the future.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1466850191

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9781466850194

Mimbres Pottery

Ancient Art of the American Southwest : Essays

By: J. J. Brody,Catherine J. Scott,Steven A. LeBlanc

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Mimbres Pottery

Ancient Art of the American Southwest : Essays

By: J. J. Brody,Catherine J. Scott,Steven A. LeBlanc

The standard work on lost New Mexico civilization's extraordinary craft. Stunning photos.

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Hudson Hills

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0933920466

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9780933920460

Symbols in Clay

Seeking Artists’ Identities in Hopi Yellow Ware Bowls

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Lucia R. Henderson

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Seeking Artists’ Identities in Hopi Yellow Ware Bowls

By: Steven A. LeBlanc,Lucia R. Henderson

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