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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785059603321

Autore

Jefferies Richard W

Titolo

Holocene hunter-gatherers of the lower Ohio River Valley [[electronic resource] /] / Richard W. Jefferies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8173-8241-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Disciplina

977.1/01

Soggetti

Paleo-Indians - Ohio River Valley

Hunting and gathering societies - Ohio River Valley

Excavations (Archaeology) - Ohio River Valley

Land settlement - Ohio River Valley - History

Landscapes - Social aspects - Ohio River Valley - History

Paleo-Indians - Agriculture - Ohio River Valley

Paleoecology - Ohio River Valley

Human ecology - Ohio River Valley - History

Social archaeology - Ohio River Valley

Ohio River Valley 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 (p. [287]-335) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Physical landscape -- Hunter-gatherer archaeological research in the lower Ohio Valley -- Peopling the valley : the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene transition -- Early Holocene foragers -- The Middle Holocene : settling into the valley -- The Late Holocene : filling the landscape -- Hunter-gatherer landscapes in space and time.

Sommario/riassunto

By the Early Holocene (10,000 to 8,000 B.P.), small wandering bands of Archaic hunter-gatherers began to annually follow the same hunting trails, basing their temporary camps on seasonal conditions and the presence of food. The Pleistocene glaciers had receded by this time, making food more plentiful in some areas and living conditions less hazardous. Although these Archaic peoples have long been known from their primary activities as hunters and gatherers of wild food resources, recent evidence has been found that indicates they also began



rudimentary cultivation sometime during the