Author: White, William P.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Geomorphic Investigations at the Julien (11-S-63), Byron (11-S-432), and Florence Street (11-S-458)
Author: White, William P.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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The Florence Street Site (11-S-458)
Author: Thomas E. EmersonPublisher: Illinois Transportation
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
This was a multicomponent site that included a 13th century Mississippian charnel house and cemetery and a catastrophically-buried Early Woodland component. The total excavation of this cemetery provided additional information on 13th century Mississippian burial practices, health, and social organization. The Early Woodland occupation contained extensive midden deposits as well as hearths and pits. These cultural features, along with the grog-tempered ceramics and contracting stem points, formed the basis for the definition of the Florence phase (300-500 B.C.). This phase has its closest connections to contemporaneous cultures in the Mid-south.
Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest
Author: James L PhillipsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315433516
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This volume reports on a series of multidisciplinary projects involving the Archaic period of the American Midwest. A period of innovation and technical achievement, the articles focus on changes in environmental, social, and economic factors operating in this period, and the adaptation of the hunter gatherer peoples living at this time.
Prehistoric Life on the Mississippi Floodplain
Author: Richard W. YerkesPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226951510
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
At the confluence of the Illinois, the Missouri, and the Mississippi Rivers lies the "American Bottom," a broad floodplain that prehistoric peoples inhabited for millennia. Precisely how did they live? What were their ties to the natural world around them? In this study, based upon some six years of intensive archeological and geological research at Labras Lake in St. Clair County, Illinois, Richard W. Yerkes interprets a wealth of important new data in a stimulating and original fashion. With a fine-tuned control of the data, Yerkes challenges prevailing theories based on simple classifications of stone tools according to shape or on simple models of diffuse and focal economies. He views environment as a dynamic factor in economic and cultural life, rather than as merely a backdrop to it. Using incident light microscopy, he examines wear patterns on stone tools to determine what activities were performed during each period the site was inhabited—the Late Archaic, the Late Woodland, and the Mississippian. As he documents environmental change at Labras Lake, he analyzes plant and animal remains in context to explore diet and seasonal patterns of subsistence and settlement. The result is a more accurate and detailed picture than ever before what prehistoric life on the Mississippi floodplain was like. Yerkes shows how to assess the duration and size of occupations and how to determine where and when true permanent settlements arose. What others call "sedentary encampments" he reveals as sequences of small residental occupations for a narrow range of activities during shorter, seasonal periods. His contribution to the study of the development of sedentism is potentially far-reaching and will interest many North American anthropologists and archeologists.
Geomorphic Research Conducted at the Fish Lake Site (11-Mo-608)
Author: William P. WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Annual Report of Investigations
Author: American Bottom Archaeology
Author: Charles John BareisPublisher: Illinois Transportation
ISBN: 9780252011115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Scientific Papers - Illinois State Museum
Author: A Bibliography of Illinois Archaeology
Author: Gwen Patrice BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
American Bottom Archaeology
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Bottom (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description