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Author Hollenbach, Kandace D.

Title Foraging in the Tennessee River Valley, 12,500 to 8,000 years ago / Kandace D. Hollenbach
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Introduction -- Modeling the Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic periods in the southeast -- The landscape of the Middle Tennessee River Valley -- Modeling resource procurement in the Middle Tennessee River Valley -- Paleoethnobotanical analysis: data and methods -- Paleoethnobotanical analysis: results -- Subsistence and mobility in northeast Alabama
Summary Plants are inarguably a significant component of the diets of foraging peoples in non-arctic environments. As such, the decisions and activities associated with the gathering and exploitation of plants are important to foragers' subsistence pursuits. Plant remains are particularly important for understanding gathering activities. Inasmuch as plant foods comprised a considerable portion of early foragers' diets, and the gathering and processing of these plant resources occupied a significant proportion of the population, namely women, children, and the elderly, an understanding of gathering act
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-275) and index
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Subject Paleo-Indians -- Tennessee River Valley
Indians of North America -- Tennessee River Valley -- Antiquities
Plant remains (Archaeology) -- Tennessee River Valley
Hunting and gathering societies -- Tennessee River Valley
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Tennessee River Valley
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Hunting and gathering societies
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
Paleo-Indians
Plant remains (Archaeology)
Iwi taketake.
SUBJECT Tennessee River Valley -- Antiquities
Subject United States -- Tennessee River Valley
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008035775
ISBN 9780817381264
0817381260
Other Titles Foraging in the Tennessee River Valley, twelve thousand five hundred to eight thousand years ago