How Long to Read Constructing Histories

How Long Does it Take to Read Constructing Histories?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 51 minutes to read Constructing Histories by Asa R. Randall

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Large accumulations of ancient shells on coastlines and riverbanks were long considered the result of garbage disposal during repeated food gatherings by early inhabitants of the southeastern United States. In this volume, Asa R. Randall presents the first new theoretical framework for examining such middens since Ripley Bullen’s seminal work sixty years ago. He convincingly posits that these ancient “garbage dumps” were actually burial mounds, ceremonial gathering places, and often habitation spaces central to the histories and social geography of the hunter-gatherer societies who built them. Synthesizing more than 150 years of shell mound investigations and modern remote sensing data, Randall rejects the long-standing ecological interpretation and redefines these sites as socially significant monuments that reveal previously unknown complexities about the hunter-gatherer societies of the Mount Taylor period (ca. 7400–4600 cal. B.P.). Affected by climate change and increased scales of social interaction, the region’s inhabitants modified the landscape in surprising and meaningful ways. This pioneering volume presents an alternate history from which emerge rich details about the daily activities, ceremonies, and burial rituals of the archaic St. Johns River cultures.

How long is Constructing Histories?

Constructing Histories by Asa R. Randall is 345 pages long, and a total of 87,975 words.

This makes it 116% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Constructing Histories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours to read Constructing Histories aloud.

What Reading Level is Constructing Histories?

Constructing Histories is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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