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

• Pubblicazione: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 974.4/97
• Soggetto topico: Indians of North America - Massachusetts - Nantucket Island - Antiquities; Indians of North America - New England - Antiquities
• Soggetto geografico: Nantucket Island (Mass.) Antiquities; New England Antiquities
• Altri autori: ChiltonElizabeth S. <1963-> RaineyMary Lynne
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Nantucket and other native places
• ISBN: 1-4384-3255-0; 1-4416-5820-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824106503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II