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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791467903321

Titolo

Nantucket and other native places [[electronic resource] ] : the legacy of Elizabeth Alden Little / / edited by Elizabeth S. Chilton and Mary Lynne Rainey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4384-3255-0

1-4416-5820-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChiltonElizabeth S. <1963->

RaineyMary Lynne

Disciplina

974.4/97

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Massachusetts - Nantucket Island - Antiquities

Indians of North America - New England - Antiquities

Nantucket Island (Mass.) Antiquities

New England Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in cooperation with the Massachusetts Archaeological Society".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The "ancient dwelling" on Sunset Hill: preliminary archaeological investigations at the Jethro Coffin House / Duncan Ritchie -- Native American architecture on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts / Mary Lynne Rainey -- Drift whales at Nantucket: the kindness of moshup / Elizabeth Alden Little and J. Clinton Andrews -- Island queens: women sachems on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket in the colonial period / Kathleen J. Bragdon -- Pilgrim subsistence: a seventeenth- century profile from the John and Priscilla Alden House, Duxbury, Massachusetts / Tonya Baroody Largy and Mitchell T. Mulholland -- The "Indian planting fields" in Concord, Massachusetts: influence of new techniques on archaeological explanatory models / Shirley Blancke -- Wampum use in southern New England: the paradox of bead production without the use of political belts / Marshall Joseph Becker -- The origin and spread of maize (zea mays) in New England / Elizabeth S. Chilton -- Limestone, shell, and the archaeological visibility of maize and beans in New England: a fertilizer hypothesis /



Elizabeth Alden Little -- An intellectual biography of Elizabeth Alden Little 1927-2003 / Dena Ferran Dincauze.