Of Caves and Shell Mounds |
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| Editor:
| Carstens, Kenneth C.
Watson, Patty Jo |
| Contribution by:
| Carstens, Kenneth C.
Watson, Patty Jo
Wagner, Gail E.
Dye, David H.
Herrmann, Nicholas P,
Powell, Mary Lucas
Prentice, Guy
Munson, Cheryl Ann
Tankersley, Kenneth B.
DiBlasi, Philip J.
Kennedy, Mary C.
Hemberger, Jan Marie
Hensley, Christine K.
Haskins, Valerie A.
Claassen, Cheryl |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8173-0805-6 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1996 |
| Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.