Download or read book Changes in Prehistoric Settlement Patterns as a Result of Shifts in Subsistence Practices in Eastern Kentucky written by Andrew M. Mickelson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: By 4,000 to 3,000 years before the present (B.P.), prehistoric populations along the western edge of the Appalachian Mountains were engaged in the cultivation of weedy plants such as goosefoot, maygrass, sunflower, and squashes. The incorporation of domesticated plants into the diet has not received detailed examination in terms of its impact upon prehistoric settlement systems. This study acquired regional scale data to evaluate whether or not such an impact can be discerned. The results document that changes in the subsistence base did affect settlement configurations. Increased diet breadth throughout the Late Archaic period in upland contexts resulted in a reorientation of thesettlement pattern in order to better fulfill subsistence requirements. In the case of the more rugged upland portion of the study area, prehistoric populations took advantage of mid-slope rockshelters to locate residential bases. Location of residences within rockshelters afforded foragers an even access to a heterogeneous environment. By gaining access to all available ecological strata, foragers were able to sustain a broad spectrum subsistence pattern in areas where richer floodplain settings were lacking. With the incorporation of cultigens into the subsistence base during the Early Woodland period, the use of rockshelters continued to be an energetically efficient settlement strategy. With the appearance maize by the end of the Late Woodland period, utilization of rockshelter settings as residences was no longer tenable. The advent of a field agricultural subsistence strategy based upon maize by the Late Prehistoric period marked the end of rockshelters used as permanent or semi-permanent residences.
Download or read book Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast written by Alice P. Wright and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen in-depth case studies incorporate empirical data with theoretical concepts such as ritual, aggregation, and place-making, highlighting the variability and common themes in the relationships between people, landscapes, and the built environment that characterize this period of North American native life in the Southeast.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Download or read book The Bibliography of Appalachia written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-02-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This bibliography of books, articles, monographs, and dissertations features more than 4,700 entries, divided into twenty-four subject areas such as activism and protest; Appalachian studies; arts and crafts; community culture and folklife; education; environment; ethnicity, race and identity; health and medicine; media and stereotypes; recreation and tourism; religion; and women and gender. Two indexes conclude the bibliography"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Sedentism in the Middle Woodland written by Karen L. Leone and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: As paleoethnobotanists and archaeologists try to gain an understanding of why prehistoric hunter-gatherers became farmers, they do so by analyzing evolutionary changes in subsistence strategies, settlement patterns, and social organization. Archaeobotanical analysis of the Strait site, a late Middle Woodland nucleated Hopewell village in Fairfield County, Ohio is the focus of this thesis. The Strait villagers subsisted on hunting, gathered wild foods that included a substantial nut component, and low-level farming of domesticates of the Eastern Agricultural Complex. Further, the earliest known tobacco seeds in Ohio have been recovered from the site. Using paleoethnobotanical indicators of occupation intensity, I have concluded that the Strait village was most likely occupied on a year-round basis, thus supporting the Aggregated Village Settlement Pattern Model. A comparative study demonstrates that although Strait's subsistence strategy patterning transpired within the late Middle Woodland period, it is part of a trend that shows a shifting of importance of food resources that generally occurs with more frequency in the early Late Woodland period, after the decline of the Hopewell culture complex. The Strait site is an example of a peripheral Hopewell community that was changing its relationship to the land, as evidenced in shifts in subsistence and settlement patterns, a century or more before the core communities did the same.
Download or read book Prehistoric Settlement Patterns written by Evon Zartman Vogt and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the New World written by Gordon Randolph Willey and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places on record what is known about prehistoric settlement patterns in several American areas. It provides basic source material and areas of interest for future research.
Download or read book Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Big Bottoms of Fulton County Kentucky written by Paul P. Kreisa and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prehistoric Life on the Mississippi Floodplain written by Richard W. Yerkes and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the confluence of the Illinois, the Missouri, and the Mississippi Rivers lies the "American Bottom," a broad floodplain that prehistoric peoples inhabited for millennia. Precisely how did they live? What were their ties to the natural world around them? In this study, based upon some six years of intensive archeological and geological research at Labras Lake in St. Clair County, Illinois, Richard W. Yerkes interprets a wealth of important new data in a stimulating and original fashion. With a fine-tuned control of the data, Yerkes challenges prevailing theories based on simple classifications of stone tools according to shape or on simple models of diffuse and focal economies. He views environment as a dynamic factor in economic and cultural life, rather than as merely a backdrop to it. Using incident light microscopy, he examines wear patterns on stone tools to determine what activities were performed during each period the site was inhabited—the Late Archaic, the Late Woodland, and the Mississippian. As he documents environmental change at Labras Lake, he analyzes plant and animal remains in context to explore diet and seasonal patterns of subsistence and settlement. The result is a more accurate and detailed picture than ever before what prehistoric life on the Mississippi floodplain was like. Yerkes shows how to assess the duration and size of occupations and how to determine where and when true permanent settlements arose. What others call "sedentary encampments" he reveals as sequences of small residental occupations for a narrow range of activities during shorter, seasonal periods. His contribution to the study of the development of sedentism is potentially far-reaching and will interest many North American anthropologists and archeologists.
Download or read book America History and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Download or read book People Places and Plants written by Paul E. Patton and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The transition from foraging to farming has cross-culturally been associated with major changes in human technology, settlement patterns and social organization. This research project tests these relationships among prehistoric human populations inhabiting the Eastern Woodlands by considering how increasing reliance on cultivated foods during the Holocene led to economic circumstances in which investment in the specialization of plant-food processing tools was beneficial. It further identifies that tool investment benefits were only adaptive when seasonally strategic mobility had decreased to such a degree that tool carrying costs were offset by expanded tool use-life. Using the Model of Technological Investment, grounded in neo-Darwinian theory and Human Behavioral Ecology, this study uses quantitative and qualitative archaeological data to 1. Provide a general survey of the changes in human botanical diet from the Hocking Valley, Ohio, for the Late Archaic through Middle Woodland Periods, 2. Determine the relative correlation between investments in food processing technology and the incorporation of cultivated foods into the prehistoric Woodlands diet, and 3. Establish the seasonal occupation at each of the sampled sites in order to determine different degrees of sedentariness and residential stability throughout the temporal periods surveyed. A variety of archaeological methods were utilized in this study, including macro-archaeobotanical analysis, pottery and ground stone macrocharacteristic analysis, and analyses of settlement and feature data from habitation sites The results of these analyses indicate that 1. Relatively high levels of investment in the construction of food-processing technology only occurred after population mobility decreased to such a degree that allowed for an extended use-life of an individual tool, 2. Middle Woodland populations in the Hocking Valley were essentially residentially stable farmers, and 3. The relationship between plant domestication, technological innovation, and sedentariness was co-evolutionary.
Download or read book Prehistoric Settlement Patterns and Subsistence Systems in St Clair County Illinois written by Frederick Terril Norris and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prehistoric Settlement and Subsistence Patterns in the Great Smoky Mountains written by Quentin R. Bass and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the New World written by Gordon Randolph Willey and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Foraging to Incipient Food Production written by C. Wesley Cowan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Native America 3 volumes written by Daniel S. Murphree and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 1726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing innovative research and unique interpretations, these essays provide a fresh perspective on Native American history by focusing on how Indians lived and helped shape each of the United States. Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia comprises 50 chapters offering interpretations of Native American history through the lens of the states in which Indians lived or helped shape. This organizing structure and thematic focus allows readers access to information on specific Indians and the regions they lived in while also providing a collective overview of Native American relationships with the United States as a whole. These three volumes synthesize scholarship on the Native American past to provide both an academic and indigenous perspective on the subject, covering all states and the native peoples who lived in them or were instrumental to their development. Each state is featured in its own chapter, authored by a specialist on the region and its indigenous peoples. Each essay has these main sections: Chronology, Historical Overview, Notable Indians, Cultural Contributions, and Bibliography. The chapters are interspersed with photographs and illustrations that add visual clarity to the written content, put a human face on the individuals described, and depict the peoples and environment with which they interacted.
Download or read book Conceptions of Kentucky Prehistory written by Douglas W. Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
