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Autore |
Gibbon Guy E. <1939-> |
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Archaeology of Minnesota [[electronic resource] ] : the prehistory of the upper Mississippi river region / / Guy Gibbon |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (275 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Paleo-Indians - Minnesota |
Mississippian culture - Minnesota |
Indians of North America - Minnesota - Antiquities |
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Minnesota Antiquities |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Tools of the Trade; 1. Environments of Minnesota; Paleoindian and Archaic Period, circa 11,200 to 500 BC; 2. First People: Paleoindian and Early Eastern Archaic Adaptations; 3. Prairie Everywhere: Middle and Late Archaic Adaptations; Initial Woodland Period, circa 1000-500 BC to AD 500-700; 4. Southern Deer Hunters, Gardeners, and Bison Hunters: Initial Woodland Adaptations in Southern Minnesota; 5. Northern Hunters, Fishers, and Wild Rice Harvesters: Initial Woodland Adaptations in Central and Northern Minnesota |
Terminal Woodland and Mississippian Period, circa AD 500-700 to 16506. Terminal Woodland Effigy Mound Builders and Bison Hunters: Terminal Woodland Adaptations in Southern Minnesota; 7. First Tribes in Southern Minnesota:Mississippian and Plains Village Adaptations; 8. First Tribes in Central and Northern Minnesota:Terminal Woodland Adaptations; Conclusion: Long-Term Pattern in the Past; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Histories of Minnesota typically begin with seventeenth-century French fur traders exploring the western shores of Lake Superior. And yet, archaeology reveals that Native Americans lived in the region at least |
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13,000 years before such European incursions. Archaeology of Minnesota tells their story-or as much as the region's wealth of artifacts, evidence of human activity, and animal and plant remains can convey.From archaeological materials, Guy Gibbon reconstructs the social, economic, and political systems-the lifeways-of those who inhabited what we now call Minnesota |
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