Download or read book Ancient Peoples of the Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau written by Steven R. Simms and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1 The Ancient World of the Basin-Plateau -- Native Culture before the Horse -- Technology -- Mobility and Settlement -- Subsistence -- Sidebar: Forager Cuisine -- Social and Political Organization -- Ideology -- From Historic Baseline to the Deep Past: A Spiral of Contexts -- 2 Ancient Climate and Habitats -- The Great Basin and the Colorado Plateau -- The Wasatch Front -- Just before History -- Stepping into a Deeper Past