Essential overview of American Indian societies during the Archaic period across central North America.
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Sweeping and detailed, this long-awaited volume is an indispensable guide to the Archaic period across the midcontinent. Archaeologists throughout the region share the latest excavation results and analytical perspectives to reveal and reinterpret the worlds of those Native peoples who lived there for some 9,000 years (up to about 3,000 years ago). Of particular concern is the establishment of relative and absolute chronologies for the Archaic period, the relationships between the artifacts left behind and the peoples who made and used them, and the changing interactions between cultures, climate, and landscape. Archaeologists offer useful, up-to-date overviews of Archaic societies, assessment of stratigraphic sequences, and detailed discussions of finds and interpretations from the Mississippi and Ohio river regions and the Great Lakes. Comprehensive and accessible, this landmark book is a must for anyone wanting to understand a crucial but little-understood period in North America's prehistory.
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Thomas E. Emerson is Director of the Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program (ITARP), a joint program of the University of Illinois and the Illinois Department of Transportation. At ITARP, Dale L. McElrath is Senior Cultural Resource Archaeologist and Statewide Survey Coordinator, and Andrew C. Fortier is Special Projects Coordinator. Archaic Societies is a companion volume to their Late Woodland Societies: Tradition and Transformation across the Midcontinent.
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Excellent read. Packed with good detailed information about Archaic societies. Includes information on areas that is hard to find like the upper midwest. I'm working on a research paper and this book has been well worth every penny. If you're intensely interested in North American Archaeology then this book on the fairly poorly understood time period is a must. Worth every penny and then some. Covers complex issues like the spacial vs. time relationship of the various periods, ie what was the middle archaic in Sothern Illinois for example might not have been the same in Northern Wisconsin. Also covers a lot of key factors that might be used to better define the various periods within the Archaic.
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red ocher, main shelter, archaeological investigations, southeastern archaeology, multicomponent site, human prehistory, main trench, site phase, temporal models, lower southeast, scenic vista, paleoenvironmental studies, lithic analysis, archaeological potential, little green heron, lithic technology, faunal analysis, early agriculture, holocene climatic change, stone tool use, settlement distribution, fossil pollen spectra, field season, anthropology laboratory, settlement organization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, Early Archaic, American Bottom, Illinois River, Big Eddy, American Antiquity, Department of Anthropology, Illinois State Museum, Academic Press, Mississippi River, Graham Cave, Unglaciated Plateau, Ohio River, Southern Illinois University, Napoleon Hollow, Modoc Rock Shelter, Illinois Valley, Table Rock, Reports of Investigations, Ann Arbor, French Lick, Great Lakes, University of Illinois, Till Plains Browse Sample Pages:
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red ocher, main shelter, archaeological investigations, southeastern archaeology, multicomponent site, human prehistory, main trench, site phase, temporal models, lower southeast, scenic vista, paleoenvironmental studies, lithic analysis, archaeological potential, little green heron, lithic technology, faunal analysis, early agriculture, holocene climatic change, stone tool use, settlement distribution, fossil pollen spectra, field season, anthropology laboratory, settlement organization Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, Early Archaic, American Bottom, Illinois River, Big Eddy, American Antiquity, Department of Anthropology, Illinois State Museum, Academic Press, Mississippi River, Graham Cave, Unglaciated Plateau, Ohio River, Southern Illinois University, Napoleon Hollow, Modoc Rock Shelter, Illinois Valley, Table Rock, Reports of Investigations, Ann Arbor, French Lick, Great Lakes, University of Illinois, Till Plains Browse Sample Pages:
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