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An old place, safe and quiet : a Blackstone River Valley cremation burial site

Title: An old place, safe and quiet : a Blackstone River Valley cremation burial site / Alan Leveillee.
Author: Leveillee, Alan.
Publication: Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2002.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	E78.M4 L48 2002	Off-site

Description

xxii, 185 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm

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Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Environmental Setting. Blackstone River Drainage Ecology. Pre-Glacial History. Glacial History. Soils. Post-Glacial Vegetative Sequence -- 3. Cultural Context. Landscape Contexts. Regional and Local Prehistory. A History of the Transitional Archaic Period in Southern New England. Mortuary Practice. Cremation from an Anthropological Perspective -- 4. Research Design and Methodologies. Settlement Pattern Studies. Methodology -- 5. The Archaeological Record: Features and Artifacts. Features. Summary. Lithic Artifacts. Projectile Points. Ground Stone Tools. Pigments -- 6. Analytical Results. Radiocarbon Dates. Faunal Remains. Floral Remains. Statistical Relationships Between Stone Tools and Human Bone. Thin Section Analysis of Tool Fragments -- 7. Interpretations. Review of the Goals of the Data Recovery Program. Depositional History of Millbury III. The Millbury III Cremation Complex. Ceremonialism at Millbury III.
Specialization in Lithic Manufacture and Body Treatment. Susquehanna Origins. Cognitive Landscapes. Epilogue: Closing Ceremonies -- App. A. Transcripts of Native American Representative Conversation Logs.

ISBN

0897898605 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001043014

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Columbia University Libraries