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

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-264) and index.
LCCN 2010011935
ISBN9781572337145 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1572337141 (hardcover : alk. paper)