Perspectives on the archaeology of pipes, tobacco and other smoke plants in the ancient Americas. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Elizabeth A. Bollwerk, Shannon Tushingham, editors.
• Editors: Bollwerk, Elizabeth A; Tushingham, Shannon
• Contents: Expanding perspectives on the archaeology of pipes, tobacco, and other smoke plants in the ancient Americas / Elizabeth A. Bollwerk and Shannon Tushingham -- Smoking pipes of eastern North America / Sean M. Rafferty -- Making pipes and social persons at the Keffer Site : a life history approach / John L. Creese -- An examination of the social dynamics behind Native smoking pipe variation in the Late Woodland and Early Contact period Middle Atlantic region / Elizabeth A. Bollwerk -- The potential of portable X-ray fluorescence for understanding trade and exchange dynamics in the seventeenth century Chesapeake : a case study using Native American tobacco pipes from the James Fort Site, Virginia / Michael Ligman -- Evolution of a ritual : pipes and smoking in Etowah's realm / Dennis B. Blanton -- Pipestone's true grit : observations from experimental pipe-making / Alison M. Hadley -- Central Plains tradition smoking pipes in the Glenwood locality of Iowa : within a landscape of the rising and falling sky / John Hedden -- Aboriginal use and context of pipes, tobacco, and smoking in northwestern North America / Grant Keddie -- Restoring traditional tobacco knowledge : health implications and risk factors of tobacco use and nicotine addiction / Charles M. Snyder -- History and modern use of sacred tobacco on the central and southern Oregon coast / Patricia Whereat Phillips -- Hunter-gatherer tobacco smoking in ancient North America : current chemical evidence and a framework for future studies / Shannon Tushingham and Jelmer W. Eerkens -- Towards the reconstruction of the ritual expressions of societies of the Early Ceramic period in central Chile : social and cultural contexts associated with the use of smoking pipes / María Teresa Planella [and six others] -- Final thoughts and future directions / Sean M. Rafferty.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland New York : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 267 pages), illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color)
• Subjects: 930.1; Social sciences; Indians of North America -- Tobacco use -- History; Indians of North America -- Social life and customs; Calumets; Tobacco pipes -- North America -- History; Tobacco use -- North America -- History; Smokable plants -- America -- History; Indians of North America -- Antiquities; Indians -- Antiquities; Archaeology; Antiquities; Calumets; Indians -- Antiquities; Indians of North America -- Antiquities; Indians of North America -- Social life and customs; Indians of North America -- Tobacco use; Smokable plants; Tobacco pipes; Tobacco use; Social Science -- Archaeology; Archaeology; North America -- Antiquities; America -- Antiquities; America; North America; Electronic books; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319235523; 3319235524
• Related ISBNs: 3319235516; 9783319235516
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.