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

Author/creator Claassen, Cheryl, 1953-
Format Electronic
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoKnoxville : University of Tennessee Press,
Descriptionxii, 275 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete
Subjects
Indians of North America--Ohio River Valley. --Antiquities.
Indians of North America--Ohio River Valley. --Rites and ceremonies.
Kitchen-middens--Ohio River Valley.
Shellfish--Social aspects. --Ohio River Valley. --History.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Ohio River Valley.
Sacred space--Ohio River Valley. --History.
Landscapes--Social aspects. --Ohio River Valley. --History.
Ohio River Valley--Antiquities.
Green River Valley (Ky.)--Antiquities.
Tennessee River Valley--Antiquities.

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.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010011935
ISBN9781572337145 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1572337141 (hardcover : alk. paper)