Archaic hunters and gatherers in the American Midwest / / edited by James L. Phillips, James A. Brown

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Disciplina: 977.01
• Soggetto topico: Indians of North America - Middle West - Antiquities; Indians of North America - Hunting - Middle West; Indians of North America - Food - Middle West; Hunting and gathering societies - Middle West; Excavations (Archaeology) - Middle West
• Soggetto geografico: Middle West Antiquities Congresses
• Altri autori: BrownJames Allison <1934-> PhillipsJames L
• Note generali: First published 2009 by Left Coast Press, Inc.; Originally published by Academic Press in 1983 in the New World Archaeological Record series.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Includes bibliographies and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction by James L. Phillips; 2. Summary by James A. Brown; 3. The Nebo Hill Phase: Late Archaic Prehistory in the Lower Missouri Valley by Kenneth C. Reid; 4. Archaic Period Research in the Western Ozark Highland, Missouri by Marvin Kay; 5. An Archaic Projectile Point Sequence from the Southern Prairie Peninsula: The Pigeon Roost Creek Site by Michael J. O'Brien and Robert E. Warren; 6. Archaic Adaptations to the Illinois Prairie: The Salt Creek Region by R. Barry Lewis ; 7. Archaic Mortuary Sites in the Central Mississippi Drainage: Distribution, Structure, and Behavioral Implications by Douglas K. Charles and Jane E. Buikstra 8. Napoleon Hollow and Koster Site Stratigraphy: Implications for Holocene Landscape Evolution and Studies of Archaic Period Settlement Patterns in the Lower Illinois River Valley by Michael D. Wiant,; 9. What Happened in the Middle Archaic? Introduction to an Ecological Approach to Koster Site Archaeology by James A. Brown and Robert K. Vierra ; 10. The Labras Lake Site and the Paleogeographic Setting of the Late Archaic in the American Bottom by James L. Phillips and Bruce G. Gladfelter 11. A Settlement-Subsistence Modle of the Terminal Late Archaic Adaptation in the American Bottom, Illinois by Thomas E. Emerson and Dale L. McElrath; 12. Settlement and Subsistence at the Go-Kart North Site: A Late Archaic Titterington Occupation in the American Bottom, Illinois by Andrew C. Fortier; 13. Modoc Rock Shelter Revisited by Bonnie W. Styles and Steven R. Ahler and Melvin L. Fowler ; 14. Dimensions of Middle Archaic Cultural Adaptation at the Black Earth Site, Saline County, Illinois by Richard W. Jefferies and B. Mark Lynch 15. The Shell Mound Archaic of Western Kentucky by William H. Marquardt and Patty Jo Watson; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Archaic hunters and gatherers in the American Midwest
• ISBN: 1-315-43351-6; 1-315-43352-4; 1-315-43353-2; 1-59874-767-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811432603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II