Research Catalog

Title

Mounds, Modoc, and Mesoamerica : papers in honor of Melvin L. Fowler / edited by Steven R. Ahler.

Publication

Springfield, Ill. : Illinois State Museum, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Ahler, Steven R.
• Fowler, Melvin L. (Melvin Leo), 1924-2008.
• Illinois State Museum.

Description

xix, 522 p. : ill., maps, plans; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Illinois State Museum scientific papers series, 0445-3395 ; vol. 28

Uniform Title

Scientific papers (Illinois State Museum) ; v. 28.

Subject

• American Bottom (Ill.) > Antiquities
• Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)
• Fowler, Melvin L. 1924-2008
• Indians of Central America > Antiquities
• Indians of Mexico > Antiquities
• Indians of North America > American Bottom > Antiquities
• Mississipian culture > American Bottom
• Modoc Rockshelter (Ill.)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• An introduction to Melvin L. Fowler / Elizabeth D. Benchley, Steven R. Ahler -- The significance of early radiocarbon dates on extinct Bison priscus bones from Engigstciak, Yukon Arctic Coast / Richard S. MacNeish -- Changing perspectives on the Archaic / Bonnie W. Styles, Steven R. Ahler -- Archaic escargot / James L. Theler -- Postmolds and possible domestic structures at Modoc Rock Shelter, Illinois / Steven R. Ahler -- Time-trend analysis of Late Woodland pottery from western Illinois / Blane H. Nansel, William Green -- Belief and ritual in prehispanic water management among the nothern Lowland Maya / Linda Forman -- Geomorphology and ancient cultural landscapes of southern Veracruz / Ann Cyphers, Mario Arturo Ortiz -- Implications of a buried Preclassic site in western Belize / George R. Holley ... [et al.] -- Mounds 65 and 66 at Cahokia / Timothy R. Pauketat, Alex W. Barker -- The Grassy Lake Site / John E. Kelly -- Settlement patterns and cultural ecology in the southern American Bottom / Sisel Schroeder -- Mississippian ritual as viewed through the practice of secondary disposal of the dead / Lynne Goldstein.
• Human and nonhuman surplus display at Mound 72, Cahokia / Paula J. Porubcan -- Sacred landscapes at Cahokia / Robert J. Watson -- Sacrificed foursomes and green corn ceremonialism / Robert L. Hall -- Mississippian mound orientations and a solar calendar / Elizabeth D. Benchley -- The Washington Irving Site / Robert J. Jeske -- Inside Morton House 7 / Alan D. Harn, Nicholas W. Klobuchar -- Archaeobotanical summary of House 7 and five Oneota features from the Morton Site (11Fv19), Fulton County, Illinois / Marjorie B. Schroeder -- Social interaction between the American Bottom of Cahokia and the Crowley's Ridge lowlands division of the Lower Mississippi River a.d. 800-1200 / Dan F. Morse, Phyllis A. Morse -- Turquoise, rasps, and heartlines / Robert F. Boszhardt -- Patterns of Oneota settlement within the middle portion of the Upper Mississippi Valley / Roland L. Rodell -- Cultural dynamics of the Late Prehistoric period in southern Wisconsin / David F. Overstreet -- A reconsideration fo the cultural processes linking Cahokia to its northern hinterlands during the period a.d. 1000-1200 / James B. Stoltman -- Fluorite figurines from the midcontinent / Thomas R. Wolforth, Lynne Mackin Wlforth -- Cahokia and the southeastern ceremonial complex / James Brown, John Kelly -- Serpents, female deities, and fertility symbolism in the Early Cahokian countryside / Thomas E. Emerson, Brad Koldehoff, Timothy R. Pauketat.

ISBN

0897921615

LCCN

^^2001315260

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library