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Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens (Hardcover)
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Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens (Hardcover)
Series: Historical Archaeology of the American West
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A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The mythic American West,
with its perilous frontiers, big skies, and vast resources, is
frequently perceived as unchanging and timeless. The work of many
western-based historical archaeologists over the past decade,
however, has revealed narratives that often sharply challenge that
timelessness. Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens reveals
an archaeological past that is distinct to the region-but not in
ways that popular imagination might suggest. Instead, this volume
highlights a western past characterized by rapid and ever-changing
interactions between diverse groups of people across a wide range
of environmental and economic situations. The dynamic and
unpredictable lives of western communities have prompted a constant
challenging and reimagining of both individual identities and
collective understandings of their position within a broader
national experience. Indeed, the archaeological West is one clearly
characterized by mobility rather than stasis. The archaeologies
presented in this volume explore the impact of that pervasive human
mobility on the West-a world of transience, impermanence, seasonal
migration, and accelerated trade and technology at scales ranging
from the local to the global. By documenting the challenges of both
local community-building and global networking, they provide an
archaeology of the West that is ultimately from the West.
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