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Feasting with shellfish in the southern Ohio Valley : Archaic sacred sites and rituals /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Claassen, Cheryl, 1953-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2010]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Landscapes > Social aspects > Ohio River Valley > History.
Sacred space > Ohio River Valley > History.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Ohio River Valley.
Shellfish > Social aspects > Ohio River Valley > History.
Kitchen-middens > Ohio River Valley.
Indians of North America > Ohio River Valley > Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of North America > Ohio River Valley > Antiquities.
Tennessee River Valley > Antiquities.
Green River Valley (Ky.) > Antiquities.
Ohio River Valley > Antiquities.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Thinking about Archaic hunter-gatherers
  • Archaic shell-bearing sites of the southern Ohio Valley
  • Locations of shell-bearing sites
  • Overexploitation of mollusks
  • Demise of the Hypsithermal
  • Ohio River Valley shell-bearing sites : villages?
  • Ceremonial districts of the southern Ohio Valley
  • Archaic rituals at shell-bearing sites
  • From Archaic villages to ritual camps : the theoretical landscape.