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Varying Form of Title: | Of caves & shell mounds
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Other authors / contributors: | Carstens, Kenneth Charles.
Watson, Patty Jo, 1932-
Southeastern Archaeological Conference (1989 : Tampa, Fla.)
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ISBN: | 0585140804 9780585140803 9780817383428 0817383425 0817308059 9780817308056
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Notes: | Based on a symposium for the Southeastern Archaeological Conference held in Tampa, Florida, 1989. Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-198) and index. English. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Of caves and shell mounds. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1996 0817308059
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