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Of caves and shell mounds /

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 v...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Southeastern Archaeological Conference
Other Authors: Carstens, Kenneth Charles, Watson, Patty Jo, 1932-
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1996.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Cheryl Ann Munson
  • Toward building a culture history of the Mammoth Cave area / Kenneth C. Carstens
  • Site distribution modeling for Mammoth Cave National Park / Guy Prentice
  • Prehistoric mining in the Mammoth Cave system / Kenneth B. Tankersley
  • Prehistoric expressions from the central Kentucky karst / Philip J. DiBlasi
  • Radiocarbon dates from Salts and Mammoth Caves / Mary C. Kennedy
  • Managing Kentucky's caves / Jan Marie Hemberger
  • Botanizing along Green River / Gail E. Wagner
  • Lithic materials from the Read Shell Mound: a reanalysis of a Works Progress Administration collection / Christine K. Hensley
  • Shell mound bioarchaeology / Valerie A. Haskins and Nicholas P. Herrmann
  • Health and disease in the Green River Archaic / Mary Lucas Powell
  • Research problems with shells from Green River shell matrix sites / Cheryl Claassen
  • Riverine adaptation in the Midsouth / David H. Dye
  • Of caves and shell mounds in west-central Kentucky / Patty Jo Watson.