Feasting with shellfish in the southern Ohio Valley
Subtitle: Archaic sacred sites and rituals
By: Cheryl Claassen
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781572337145
Subjects: Shellfish; Indians of North America; Antiquities; Rites and ceremonies; Kitchen-middens; Excavations (Archaeology); Landscapes; Sacred space; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking about Archaic hunter-gatherers; title: Archaic shell-bearing sites of the southern Ohio Valley; title: Locations of shell-bearing sites; title: Overexploitation of mollusks; title: Demise of the Hypsithermal; title: Ohio River Valley shell-bearing sites : villages?; title: Ceremonial districts of the southern Ohio Valley; title: Archaic rituals at shell-bearing sites; title: From Archaic villages to ritual camps : the theoretical landscape.