Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
366 pages
978-1-59874-452-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume reports on a series of multidisciplinary projects involving the Archaic period of the American Midwest. A period of innovation and technical achievement, the articles focus on changes in environmental, social, and economic factors operating in this period, and the adaptation of the hunter gatherer peoples living at this time.
Reviews / Votes
"This is a collection of 15 well written articles on the Archaic Indians of the Midwest. The text is easy to read and covers the classic sites, population, environment-ecology and artifacts of this interesting age." Dental Anthropology Newsletter, 1987More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Walnut Creek
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
90 figures, 30 tables, references index
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59874-452-1 (9781598744521)
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Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest
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Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest
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James L. Phillips | James A. Brown
Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest
E-Book
09/2016
Routledge
€73.99
Available for download
Person
James L Phillips, James A Brown
Content
1: Introduction; 2: Summary; 3: The Nebo Hill Phase: Late Archaic Prehistory in the Lower Missouri Valley; 4: Archaic Period Research in the Western Ozark Highland, Missouri; 5: An Archaic Projectile Point Sequence from the Southern Prairie Peninsula; 6: Archaic Adaptations to the Illinois Prairie; 7: Archaic Mortuary Sites in the Central Mississippi Drainage; 8: Napoleon Hollow and Koster Site Stratigraphy; 9: What Happened in the Middle Archaic? Introduction to an Ecological Approach to Koster Site Archaeology; 10: The Labras Lake Site and the Paleogeographic Setting of the Late Archaic in the American Bottom; 11: A Settlement-Subsistence Model of the Terminal Late Archaic Adaptation in the American Bottom, Illinois; 12: Settlement and Subsistence at the Go-Kart North Site; 13: Modoc Rock Shelter Revisited; 14: Dimensions of Middle Archaic Cultural Adaptation at the Black Earth Site, Saline County, Illinois; 15: The Shell Mound Archaic of Western Kentucky