An Archaeology of Desperation: Exploring the Donner Party's Alder Creek Camp - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kelly J. Dixon (Editor), Julie M. Schabilitsky (Editor), Shannon A. Novak (Editor)Publish date:2020-08-27Pages:408
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806142104ISBN-10:806142103UPC:9780806142104Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, ArchaeologyBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SCNQXXKAFM
The Donner Party is almost inextricably linked with cannibalism. In truth, we know remarkably little about what actually happened to the starving travelers stranded in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846-47. Combining the approaches of history, ethnohistory, archaeology, bioarchaeology, and social anthropology, this innovative look at the Donner Party's experience at the Alder Creek Camp...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806142104ISBN-10:806142103UPC:9780806142104Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, ArchaeologyBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:9.10 x 6.10 x 1.30 inchesWeight:1.6513Product ID:SCNQXXKAFM
Dixon, Kelly J.: -
Kelly J. Dixon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Montana and author of Boomtown Saloons: Archaeology and History in Virginia City.
Novak, Shannon A.: -Shannon A. Novak is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, and author of House of Mourning: A Biocultural History of the Mountain Meadows...
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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