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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464954603321

Titolo

Trends and traditions in southeastern zooarchaeology / / edited by Tanya M. Peres

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gainesville : , : University Press of Florida, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8130-5010-3

0-8130-4873-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series

Altri autori (Persone)

PeresTanya M

Disciplina

930.1/0285

Soggetti

Animal remains (Archaeology) - Southern States

Excavations (Archaeology) - Southern States

Electronic books.

Southern States Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Tanya M. Peres -- "Som times I git a nuff and som times I don't": Confederate subsistence and the evidence from the Florence Stockade (38FL2), Florence, South Carolina / Judith A. Sichler -- Foodways, economic status, and the Antebellum Upland South cultural tradition in Central Kentucky / Tanya M. Peres -- Shell trade: craft production at a fourteenth-century Mississippian frontier / Maureen S. Meyers -- The dogs of Spirit Hill: an analysis of domestic dog burials from Jackson County, Alabama / Renee B. Walker and R. Jeannine Windham -- Hunting ritual, trapping meaning, gathering offerings / Cheryl Claassen -- Embedded: five thousand years of shell symbolism in the southeast / Aaron Deter-Wolf and Tanya M. Peres -- Behavioral, environmental, and applied aspects of molluscan assemblages from the Lower Tombigbee River, Alabama / Evan Peacock, Stuart W. McGregor, and Ashley A. Dumas.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is a synthesis of zooarchaeology's history in the southeast, exploring the role of animals in social and economic development and examining the current trends and methodologies used.