Hunting for hides : deerskins, status, and cultural change in the protohistoric Appalachians /

Hunting for hides : deerskins, status, and cultural change in the protohistoric Appalachians /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lapham, Heather A. (Heather Alynn), 1969-
Imprint:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2005.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 184 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Indians of North America -- Hunting -- Appalachian Region, Southern. Indians of North America -- Appalachian Region, Southern. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Appalachian Region, Southern. Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) Indians of North America. Indians of North America -- Hunting. Appalachian Region, Southern -- Antiquities. Southern Appalachian Region. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11123589

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ISBN:	9780817383770 0817383778 0817314938 9780817314934 0817352767 9780817352769
Notes:	"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication"--Page [ii]. Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Virginia). Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-177) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Changes in Native American communities as they adapted to advancing Europeans. ℗¡ This volume investigates the use of deer, deerskins, and nonlocal goods in the period from A.D. 1400 to 1700 to gain a comprehensive understanding of historic-era cultural changes taking place within Native American communities in the southern Appalachian Highlands. In the 1600s, hunting deer to obtain hides for commercial trade evolved into a substantial economic enterprise for many Native Americans in the Middle Atlantic and Southeast.℗¡ An overseas market demand for animal hides and furs imported from the Americ.
Other form:	Print version: Lapham, Heather A. (Heather Alynn), 1969- Hunting for hides. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2005 0817314938

Table of Contents:

Economic intensification and cultural change
Late Woodland and protohistoric archaeology in the southern ridge and valley
Ridge and valley animal exploitation
Deer hunting and hide production
Mortuary practices and prestige goods use
Understanding cultural change in the protohistoric southern Appalachian highlands.