Pottery and chronology at Angel /

Pottery and chronology at Angel /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hilgeman, Sherri Lynn, 1958-
Imprint:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Indians of North America -- Indiana -- Antiquities. Mississippian culture -- Indiana. Antiquities. Indians of North America -- Antiquities. Mississippian culture. Angel Mounds State Historic Site (Ind.) Indiana -- Antiquities. Indiana. Indiana -- Angel Mounds State Historic Site. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11226384

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ISBN:	9780817383725 0817383727 0817310355 9780817310356 0817310355 9780817310356
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Located near present-day Evansville, Indiana, the Angel site is one of the important archaeological towns associated with prehistoric Mississippian society. More than two million artifacts were collected from this site during excavations from 1939 to 1989, but, until now, no systematic survey of the pottery sherds had been conducted. This volume, documenting the first in-depth analysis of Angel site pottery, also provides scholars of Mississippian culture with a chronology of this important site. Angel is generally thought to have been occupied from before A.D. 1200 to 1450, but scholars have b.
Other form:	Print version: Hilgeman, Sherri Lynn, 1958- Pottery and chronology at Angel. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Pottery studies in Mississippian archaeology
Decorated plates, bottles, bowls, and jars
Closed and open handles
Angel negative painted plates
Chronology of the Angel site and phase
Angel in regional perspective.