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

Title
Feasting with shellfish in the southern Ohio Valley [electronic resource] : Archaic sacred sites and rituals / Cheryl Claassen.
Author
Claassen, Cheryl, 1953-
Publication
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2010.

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Description
1 online resource (xii, 275 p.) : ill., maps.
Uniform Title
Feasting with shellfish in the southern Ohio Valley (Online)
Alternative Title
Feasting with shellfish in the southern Ohio Valley (Online)
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 > Social aspects > History. > Ohio River Valley
  • Excavations (Archaeology) > Ohio River Valley
  • Sacred space > Ohio River Valley > History
  • Landscapes > Social aspects > History. > Ohio River Valley
  • Ohio River Valley > Antiquities
  • Green River Valley (Ky.) > Antiquities
  • Tennessee River Valley > Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-264) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2010011935
OCLC
ssj0000469102
Author
Claassen, Cheryl, 1953-
Title
Feasting with shellfish in the southern Ohio Valley [electronic resource] : Archaic sacred sites and rituals / Cheryl Claassen.
Imprint
Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2010.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-264) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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