Of caves and shell mounds /

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Imprint:Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1996.
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 209 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11106420
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Varying Form of Title:Of caves & shell mounds
Other authors / contributors:Carstens, Kenneth Charles.
Watson, Patty Jo, 1932-
Southeastern Archaeological Conference (1989 : Tampa, Fla.)
ISBN:0585140804
9780585140803
9780817383428
0817383425
0817308059
9780817308056
Notes:Based on a symposium for the Southeastern Archaeological Conference held in Tampa, Florida, 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-198) and index.
English.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Of caves and shell mounds. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1996 0817308059