Models for the Millennium
Great Basin Anthropology Today

Edited by Charlotte Beck

43 illustrations, 8 maps
Cloth $65.00
ISBN 978-0-87480-593-2

An overview of the development and current practice of anthropology in the Great Basin.

Models for the Millennium presents an overview of the development and current practice of anthropology in the Great Basin. This volume includes such topics as historical issues; models for past and present anthropological and archaeological phenomena
and cooperation among anthropologists, Nativve Americans, and government agencies.

The volume includes four sections. :Historical Development” describes the development of ethnology, archaeology, and paleoecology in the Great Basin. “Current Issues” covers topics in general theory, paeloecology, ethnography and linguistics, prehistory, and cultural resource management. “models of Explanation” examines various approaches to modeling aspects of the archaeological, paleoecological, and ethnographic record in such areas as subsistence, mobility, iconography, and gender. Finally, “Models of Cooperation” discusses how anthropologists, Native Americans, and various agencies come to terms with such issues as burial and sacred sites, range blight, and the destruction of the archaeological record.

Contributors
Collen Beck, Deseret Research Institute, Reno
David Rhode, Deseret Research Institute
Robert Elston, Intermountain Research, Silver City, Nevada
Donald Grayson, University of Washington
Catherine Fowler, University of Nevada, Reno
George Jones, Hamilton College
Robert Bettinger, University of California, Davis
Amy Gilreath, Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Winters, California
Robert Kelly, University of Wyoming
Daniel Amick, Loyola University
Seven Simms, Utah State University
David Zeanah, Intermountain Resarch
Mary Ricks, Portland State University
Richard Hughes, Geochemical Research Laboratory, Portola Valley, California
Richard O. Clemmer, University of Denver
Donald Hardesty, University of Nevada, Reno
David Madsen, Utah Geological Survey
Melinda Leach, University of North Dakota
Michael Cannon, University of Washington
Lee Kreutzer, National Park Service
Ganaver Timican, Koosharem Band, Paiute Tribe
Douglas Timican, Koosharem Band, Paiute Tribe
Stephanie Livinston, Desert Research Institute
Joel Janetsky, Brigham Young University
William Cannonn, BLM, Lakeview, Oregon
Meredith Rucks, U.S. Forest Service, Lake Tahoe
James O’Connell, University of Utah

Charlotte Beck is associate professor of anthropology, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY.