Claassen, Cheryl, 1953-

Feasting with Shellfish in the Southern Ohio Valley Archaic Sacred Sites and Rituals / [Recurso electrónico] : Cheryl Claassen. - 1st ed. - Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 275 p. :) ill., maps ; - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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

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.

Libro Electrónico

9781572337336 1572337338




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


Tennessee River Valley--Antiquities.
Green River Valley (Ky.)--Antiquities.
Ohio River Valley--Antiquities.


Electronic books.

E78.O4 / C55 2010

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