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Title Archaic hunters and gatherers in the American Midwest / edited by James L. Phillips, James A. Brown
Published Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 349 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series New World archaeological record
New World archaeological record.
Contents The Nebo Hill phase: Late Archaic prehistory in the lower Missouri Valley / Kenneth C. Reid -- Archaic period research in the western Ozark highland, Missouri / Marvin Kay -- An Archaic projectile point sequence from the southern Prairie Peninsula: the Pigeon Roost Creek Site / Michael J. O'Brien and Robert E. Warren -- Archaic adaptations to the Illinois prairie: the Salt Creek region / R. Barry Lewis -- Archaic mortuary sites in the central Mississippi drainage: distribution, structure, and behavioral implications / Douglas K. Charles and Jane E. Buikstra -- Napoleon Hollow and Koster Site stratigraphy: implications for Holocene landscape evolution and studies of Archaic period settlement patterns in the lower Illinois River Valley / Michael D. Wiant, Edwin R. Hajic, and Thomas R. Styles -- What happened in the Middle Archaic? Introduction to an ecological approach to Koster Site archaeology / James A. Brown and Robert K. Vierra -- The Labras Lake Site and the paleogeographic setting of the Late Archaic in the American Bottom / James L. Phillips and Bruce G. Gladfelter -- A settlement-subsistence model of the Terminal Late Archaic adaptation in the American Bottom, Illinois / Thomas E. Emerson and Dale L. McElrath -- Settlement and subsistence at the Go-Kart North Site: a Late Archaic Titterington occupation in the American Bottom, Illinois / Andrew C. Fortier -- Modoc Rock Shelter revisited / Bonnie W. Styles, Steven R. Ahler, and Melvin L. Fowler -- Dimensions of Middle Archaic cultural adaptation at the Black Earth Site, Saline County, Illinois / Richard W. Jefferies and B. Mark Lynch -- The shell mound Archaic of western Kentucky / William H. Marquardt and Patty Jo Watson
Summary 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
Notes Based on a symposium held at the Midwest Archaeological Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, October 1980
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle West -- Congresses
Hunting and gathering societies -- Middle West -- Congresses
Indians of North America -- Food -- Middle West -- Congresses
Indians of North America -- Hunting -- Middle West -- Congresses
Indians of North America -- Middle West -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Indians of North America -- Middle West -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Indians -- Hunting -- Middle West -- Congresses
Indians -- Food -- Middle West -- Congresses
Hunting and gathering societies -- Middle West -- Congresses
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle West -- Congresses
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Indians -- Food
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Hunting and gathering societies
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
Indians of North America -- Food
Indians of North America -- Hunting
Arqueologia.
SUBJECT Middle West -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Middle West -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Subject Middle West
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Brown, James A
Phillips, James L
Midwest Archaeological Conference (1980 : University of Illinois at Chicago)
ISBN 9781598747676
1598747673
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9781598744521
9781315433530
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