Foragers of the terminal Pleistocene in North America /

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Imprint:Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.
Description:xv, 328 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6328475
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Other authors / contributors:Walker, Renee Beauchamp, 1968-
Driskell, Boyce N.
ISBN:9780803248021 (cloth : alk. paper)
0803248024 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Some chapters originally presented at a Society for American Archaeology symposium in 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-315) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: New Developments in Paleoindian Subsistence Studies
  • 1. Quacks in the Ice: Waterfowl, Paleoindians, and the Discovery of America
  • 2. Faunal Extinction, Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies, and Subsistence Diversity among Eastern Beringian Paleoindians
  • 3. Are Paleoindians of the Great Plains and Rockies Subsistence Specialists?
  • 4. Discerning Clovis Subsistence from Stone Artifacts and Site Distributions on the Southern Plains Periphery
  • 5. Late Paleoindian Subsistence Strategies in the Western Great Lakes Region: Evidence for Generalized Foraging from Northern Wisconsin
  • 6. Hunting in the Late Paleoindian Period: Faunal Remains from Dust Cave, Alabama
  • 7. Seed Collecting and Fishing at the Shawnee Minisink Paleoindian Site: Everyday Life in the Late Pleistocene
  • 8. Gathering in the Late Paleoindian Period: Archaeobotanical Remains from Dust Cave, Alabama
  • 9. Revising the Paleoindian Environmental Picture in Northeastern North America
  • 10. Early Floridians and Late Megamammals: Some Technological and Dietary Evidence from Four North Florida Paleoindian Sites
  • 11. Ethnography, Analogy, and the Reconstruction of Paleoindian Lifeways
  • 12. Making Sense of Paleoindian Subsistence Strategies
  • Bibliography
  • Index