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Author:

Claassen, Cheryl, 1953-

Title:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Tennessee Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xii, 275 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Ohio River Valley--Antiquities.
Indians of North America--Ohio River Valley--Rites and ceremonies.
Kitchen-middens--Ohio River Valley.
Shellfish--History.--Ohio River Valley--History.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Ohio River Valley.
Sacred space--Ohio River Valley--History.
Landscapes--History.--Ohio River Valley--History.
Ohio River Valley--Antiquities.
Green River Valley (Ky.)--Antiquities.
Tennessee River Valley--Antiquities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-264) and index.

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.

ISBN:

1572337141 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781572337145 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)605014008

LCCN:

2010011935

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)