Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest

by James L Phillips (Editor), James A Brown (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598744521
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/15/2009
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	366
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

James L Phillips, James A Brown

Table of Contents

1: Introduction; 2: Summary; 3: The Nebo Hill Phase: Late Archaic Prehistory in the Lower Missouri Valley; 4: Archaic Period Research in the Western Ozark Highland, Missouri; 5: An Archaic Projectile Point Sequence from the Southern Prairie Peninsula; 6: Archaic Adaptations to the Illinois Prairie; 7: Archaic Mortuary Sites in the Central Mississippi Drainage; 8: Napoleon Hollow and Koster Site Stratigraphy; 9: What Happened in the Middle Archaic? Introduction to an Ecological Approach to Koster Site Archaeology; 10: The Labras Lake Site and the Paleogeographic Setting of the Late Archaic in the American Bottom; 11: A Settlement-Subsistence Model of the Terminal Late Archaic Adaptation in the American Bottom, Illinois; 12: Settlement and Subsistence at the Go-Kart North Site; 13: Modoc Rock Shelter Revisited; 14: Dimensions of Middle Archaic Cultural Adaptation at the Black Earth Site, Saline County, Illinois; 15: The Shell Mound Archaic of Western Kentucky

Editorial Reviews

"This is a collection of 15 well written articles on the Archaic Indians of the Midwest. The text is easy to read and covers the classic sites, population, environment-ecology and artifacts of this interesting age." Dental Anthropology Newsletter, 1987

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