Eldorado!: The Archaeology of Gold Mining in the Far North - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 080321099X ISBN 13: 9780803210998

Casa editrice: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 2011

Riassunto

When gold was discovered in the far northern regions of Alaska and the Yukon in the late nineteenth century, thousands of individuals headed north to strike it rich. This massive movement required a vast network of supplies and services and brought even more people north to manage and fulfill those needs. In this volume, archaeologists, historians, and ethnologists discuss their interlinking studies of the towns, trails, and mining districts that figured in the northern gold rushes, including the first sustained account of the archaeology of twentieth-century gold mining sites in Alaska or the Yukon.
The authors explore various parts of this extensive settlement and supply system: coastal towns that funneled goods inland from ships; the famous Chilkoot Trail, over which tens of thousands of gold-seekers trod; a host of retail-oriented sites that supported prospectors and transferred goods through the system; and actual camps on the creeks where gold was extracted from the ground. Discussing individual cases in terms of settlement patterns and archaeological assemblages, the essays shed light on issues of interest to students of gender, transience, and site abandonment behavior. Further commentary places the archaeology of the Far North within the larger context of early twentieth-century industrialized European American society.

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L'autore

Catherine Holder Spude is a retired archaeologist with the National Park Service. She is the author ofSin and Grace: The True Story of Skagway’s Underworld and has published articles in theJournal of Historical Archaeology, Arctic, and Alaska History. Robin O. Mills is an archaeologist with the Bureau of Land Management in the Fairbanks District Office. His articles have appeared in theJournal of Historical Archaeology and Arctic Anthropology. Karl Gurcke is a historian with the National Park Service at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. He is the author ofBricks and Brickmaking: A Handbook for Historical Archaeology. Roderick Sprague is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Idaho, Moscow. He is the author ofBurial Terminology: A Guide for Researchers.

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• Editore: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 080321099X
• ISBN 13: 9780803210998
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 357
• Redattore: Spude Catherine Holder, Mills Robin O., Gurcke Karl, Sprague Roderick