Nantucket and other native places
Subtitle: the legacy of Elizabeth Alden Little
By: edited by Elizabeth S. Chilton and Mary Lynne Rainey.
Contributors: Chilton, Elizabeth S.; Rainey, Mary Lynne.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438432533; 9781438432540
Subjects: Little, Elizabeth A; Indians of North America -- Massachusetts -- Nantucket Island -- Antiquities; Indians of North America -- New England -- Antiquities; Nantucket Island (Mass.) -- Antiquities; New England -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ancient dwelling on Sunset Hill: preliminary archaeological investigations at the Jethro Coffin House / Duncan Ritchie; title: Native American architecture on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts / Mary Lynne Rainey; title: Drift whales at Nantucket: the kindness of moshup / Elizabeth Alden Little; title: Island queens: women sachems on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket in the colonial period / Kathleen J. Bragdon; title: Pilgrim subsistence: a seventeenth century profile from the John and Priscilla Alden House, Duxbury, Massachusetts / Tonya Baroody Largy and Mitchell T. Mulholland; title: The Indian planting fields in Concord, Massachusetts: influence of new techniques on archaeological explanatory models / Shirley Blancke; title: Wampum use in southern New England: the paradox of bead production without the use of political belts / Marshall Joseph Becker; title: The origin and spread of maize in New England / Zea Mays and Elizabeth S. Chilton; title: Limestone, shell, and the archaeological visibility of maize and beans in New England: a fertilizer hypothesis / Elizabeth Alden Little; title: An intellectual biography of Elizabeth Alden Little 1927-2003 / Dena Ferran Dincauze; title: Afterword / Ruel Little.