Author: Charles John BareisPublisher: Illinois Transportation
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
American Bottom Archaeology
Author: Charles John BareisPublisher: Illinois Transportation
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
American Bottom Archaeology
Author: The Lohmann Site
Author: Duane EsareyPublisher: Illinois Transporatation Archaeological Research Program
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
One of the few documented excavations at an American Bottom single-mound Mississippian temple town that has provided revealing insights into town organization as well as evidence of specialized celt manufacturing.
Archaeology in the American Bottom
Author: Charles John BareisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Dash Reeves Site
Author: Andrew C. FortierPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252070198
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This newest addition to the American Bottom Archaeology series reports on the Dash Reeves site, an extensive Middle Woodland habitation site that represents a major floodplain village and locality for the production of stone tools. The village area consists of clusters of pits and a dense refuse heap containing hundreds of diagnostic Middle Woodlands artifacts: an extensive collection of lamellar blades and blade cores, projectile points, Hill Lake ceramics, a diversity of flake, blade, and core tools, and several exotic Hopewell-like pieces, including earspool and human figurine fragments. Inhabited between 150 A.D. and 300 A.D., during the Hill Lake phase, Dash Reeves appears to have been an important locus of interaction with peoples far to the south. The production of blades at Dash Reeves, especially those made of local colorful red and blue Ste. Genevieve cherts, possibly served as the focal point of a far-reaching blade-exchange system in the Midwest. America, the American Bottom Archaeology series documents the excavation of sites affected by the construction of Interstate Highway 270 on the Mississippi River floodplain in Illinois counties across the river from St. Louis. The series is cosponsored by the Federal Highway Administration and the Illinois Department of Transportation. Volumes on individual sites are supplemented by a summary volume on the FAI-270 Project's contribution to the culture history of the Mississippi River Valley.
American Bottom Archaeology
Author: Charles John BareisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780252063466
Category : American Bottom (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippians
Author: Timothy R. PauketatPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521520669
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Using a wealth of archaeological evidence, this book outlines the development of Mississippian civilization.
Selected Early Mississippian Household Sites in the American Bottom
Author: Douglas K. JacksonPublisher: Illinois Transportation
ISBN:
Category : American Bottom (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Cahokia, the Great Native American Metropolis
Author: Biloine W. YoungPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068218
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Five centuries before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, indigenous North Americans had already built a vast urban center on the banks of the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. This is the story of North America's largest archaeological site, told through the lives, personalities, and conflicts of the men and women who excavated and studied it. At its height the metropolis of Cahokia had twenty thousand inhabitants in the city center with another ten thousand in the outskirts. Cahokia was a precisely planned community with a fortified central city and surrounding suburbs. Its entire plan reflected the Cahokian's concept of the cosmos. Its centerpiece, Monk's Mound, ten stories tall, is the largest pre-Columbian structure in North America, with a base circumference larger than that of either the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt or the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan in Mexico. Nineteenth-century observers maintained that the mounds, too sophisticated for primitive Native American cultures, had to have been created by a superior, non-Indian race, perhaps even by survivors of the lost continent of Atlantis. Melvin Fowler, the "dean" of Cahokia archaeologists, and Biloine Whiting Young tell an engrossing story of the struggle to protect the site from the encroachment of interstate highways and urban sprawl. Now identified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and protected by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Cahokia serves as a reminder that the indigenous North Americans had a past of complexity and great achievement.
Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions
Author: Timothy R. PauketatPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759112509
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary theorizing about human development, as he ponders the evidence of 'chiefdoms' left behind by the Mississippian culture of the American southern heartland. This book challenges all students of history and prehistory to reexamine the actual evidence that archaeology has made available, and to do so with an open mind.