Format:
Online-Ressource (231 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780817308056
Content:
Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this volume offer new, contrary evidence to dispute this earlier assumption, and their studies demonstrate the vigor and complexity of prehistoric peoples in the North American Midwest and Midsouth. These peoples gathered at favored places along midcontinental streams to harvest mussels and other wild fo
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Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Toward Building a Culture History of the Mammoth Cave Area; 3. Site Distribution Modeling for Mammoth Cave National Park; 4. Prehistoric Mining in the Mammoth Cave System; 5. Prehistoric Expressions from the Central Kentucky Karst; 6. Radiocarbon Dates from Salts and Mammoth Caves; 7. Managing Kentucky's Caves; 8. Botanizing along Green River; 9. Lithic Materials from the Read Shell Mound: A Reanalysis of a Works Progress Administration Collection; 10. Shell Mound Bioarchaeology
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11. Health and Disease in the Green River Archaic12. Research Problems with Shells from Green River Shell Matrix Sites; 13. Riverine Adaptation in the Midsouth; 14. Of Caves and Shell Mounds in West-Central Kentucky; References; Contributors; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817383428
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817308056
Additional Edition:
Print version Of Caves and Shell Mounds
Language:
English
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