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Title Of caves and shell mounds / edited by Kenneth C. Carstens and Patty Jo Watson
Published Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 209 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
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
Notes English
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Subject Watson, Patty Jo, 1932- -- Congresses
SUBJECT Watson, Patty Jo, 1932- fast
Subject Indians of North America -- Kentucky -- Green River Region -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Kentucky -- Green River Region -- Congresses
Caves -- Kentucky -- Green River Region -- Surveying -- Congresses
Kitchen-middens -- Kentucky -- Green River Region -- Congresses
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Caves -- Surveying
Excavations (Archaeology)
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
Kitchen-middens
SUBJECT Big Bend Sites (Ky.) -- Congresses
Mammoth Cave National Park (Ky.) -- Congresses
Subject Kentucky -- Big Bend Sites
Kentucky -- Green River Region
Kentucky -- Mammoth Cave National Park
Genre/Form Festschriften
Conference papers and proceedings
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Carstens, Kenneth Charles
Watson, Patty Jo, 1932-
Southeastern Archaeological Conference (1989 : Tampa, Fla.)
LC no. 95020772
ISBN 0585140804
9780585140803
9780817383428
0817383425
Other Titles Of caves & shell mounds