Mounds, Modoc, and Mesoamerica
Subtitle: papers in honor of Melvin L. Fowler
By: edited by Steven R. Ahler.
Contributors: Ahler, Steven R.; Fowler, Melvin L. 1924-; Illinois State Museum.
Series: Illinois State Museum scientific papers series,; vol. 28; Scientific papers (Illinois State Museum) ;; v. 28.
Publisher: Illinois State Museum
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Springfield, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Fowler, Melvin L. 1924-; Mississippian culture -- Illinois -- American Bottom.; Indians of North America -- Illinois -- American Bottom -- Antiquities.; Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities.; Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.); Modoc Rockshelter (Ill.); American Bottom (Ill.) -- Antiquities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Steven R. Ahler; title: An introduction to Melvin L. Fowler / Elizabeth D. Benchley and Steven R. Ahler; title: The significance of Early radiocarbon dates on extinct bison priscus bones from Engigstciak, Yukon Arctic Coast / Richard S. MacNeish; title: Changing perspectives on the archaic : contributions from Modoc Rock Shelter / Bonnie W. Styles and Steven R. Ahler; title: Archaic escargot : a consideration of evidence for snails as a human food source at Modoc Rock Shelter, Illinois / James L. Theler; title: Postmolds and possible domestic structures at Modoc Rock Shelter, Illinois / Steven R. Ahler; title: Time-trend analysis of Lake Woodland pottery from Western Illinois / Blane H. Nansel and William Green; title: Belief and ritual in prehispanic water management among the Northern Lowland Maya / Linda Forman; title: Geomorphology and ancient cultural landscapes of Southern Veracruz / Ann Cyphers and Mario Arturo Ortiz; title: Implications of a buried preclassic site in Western Belize / George R. Holley, Rinita A. Dalan, William I. Woods, and Harold W. Waters; title: Mounds 65 and 66 at Cahokia : additional details of the 1927 excavations / Timothy R. Pauketat and Alex W. Barker; title: The Grassy Lake Site: an historical and archaelogical overview / John E. Kelly; title: Settlement patterns and cultural ecology in the Southern American Bottom / Sissel Schroeder; title: Mississippian ritual as viewed through the practice of secondary disposal of the dead / Lynne Goldstein; title: Human and nonhuman surplus display at Mound 72, Cahokia / Paula J. Porubcan; title: Sacred landscapes at Cahokia : Mount 72 and the Mound 72 Precinct / Robert J. Watson; title: Sacrificed foursomes and green corn ceremonialism / Robert J. Hall; title: Mississippian Mound orientations and solar calendar / Elizabeth D. Benchley; title: The Washington Irving Site : Langford tradition adaptation in Northern Illinois / Robert J. Jeske; title: Inside Morton House 7 : an Oneota structure from the Central Illinois River Valley / Alan D. Ham and Nicholas W. Klobuchar; title: Archeobotanical summary of House 7 and five Oneota features from the Morton Site (11Fv19), Fulton County, Illinois / Marjorie B. Schroeder; title: 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 and Phyllis A. Morse; title: Turquoise, rasps, and heartlines : the Oneota Bison Pull / Robert F. Boszhardt; title: Patterns of Oneota settlement within the middle portion of the Upper Mississippi Valley / Roland L. Rodell; title: Cultural dynamics of the Late Prehistoric Period in Southern Wisconsin / David F. Overstreet; title: A reconsideration of the cultural processes linking Cahokia to its northern hinterlands during the period a.d. 1000-1200 / James B. Stoltman; title: Fluorite figurines from the midcontinent / Thomas R. Wolforth and Lynne Mackin Wolforth; title: Cahokia and the Southeastern Ceremonial Comples / James Brown and John Kelly; title: Serpents, female deities, and fertility symbolism in the early Cahokian countryside / Thomas E. Emerson, Brad Koldehoff, and Timothy R. Pauketat.