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1 online resource (xvii, 209 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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Contents |
Introduction / Cheryl Ann Munson -- Toward building a culture history of the Mammoth Cave area / Kenneth C. Carstens -- Site distribution modeling for Mammoth Cave National Park / Guy Prentice -- Prehistoric mining in the Mammoth Cave system / Kenneth B. Tankersley -- Prehistoric expressions from the central Kentucky karst / Philip J. DiBlasi -- Radiocarbon dates from Salts and Mammoth Caves / Mary C. Kennedy -- Managing Kentucky's caves / Jan Marie Hemberger -- Botanizing along Green River / Gail E. Wagner -- Lithic materials from the Read Shell Mound: a reanalysis of a Works Progress Administration collection / Christine K. Hensley -- Shell mound bioarchaeology / Valerie A. Haskins and Nicholas P. Herrmann -- Health and disease in the Green River Archaic / Mary Lucas Powell -- Research problems with shells from Green River shell matrix sites / Cheryl Claassen -- Riverine adaptation in the Midsouth / David H. Dye -- Of caves and shell mounds in west-central Kentucky / Patty Jo Watson |
Summary |
Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this volume offer new, contrary evidence to dispute this earlier assumption, and their studies demonstrate the vigor and complexity of prehistoric peoples in the North American Midwest and Midsouth. These peoples gathered at favored places along midcontinental streams to harvest mussels and other wild fo |
Notes |
Based on a symposium for the Southeastern Archaeological Conference held in Tampa, Florida, 1989 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-198) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Watson, Patty Jo, 1932- -- Congresses
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SUBJECT |
Watson, Patty Jo, 1932- fast |
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Indians of North America -- Kentucky -- Green River Region -- Antiquities -- Congresses
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Kentucky -- Green River Region -- Congresses
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Caves -- Kentucky -- Green River Region -- Surveying -- Congresses
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Kitchen-middens -- Kentucky -- Green River Region -- Congresses
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Caves -- Surveying
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Indians of North America -- Antiquities
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Kitchen-middens
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Big Bend Sites (Ky.) -- Congresses
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Mammoth Cave National Park (Ky.) -- Congresses
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Kentucky -- Big Bend Sites
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Kentucky -- Green River Region
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Kentucky -- Mammoth Cave National Park
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Festschriften
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Festschriften.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Carstens, Kenneth Charles
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Watson, Patty Jo, 1932-
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Southeastern Archaeological Conference (1989 : Tampa, Fla.)
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LC no. |
95020772 |
ISBN |
0585140804 |
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9780585140803 |
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9780817383428 |
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0817383425 |
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