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Falls of the Ohio River - Archaeology of Native American Settlement (Hardcover)
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Falls of the Ohio River - Archaeology of Native American Settlement (Hardcover)
Series: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
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Falls of the Ohio River presents current archaeological research on
an important landscape feature: a series of low, cascading rapids
along the Ohio River on the border of Kentucky and Indiana. Using
the perspective of historical ecology and synthesizing data from
recent excavations, contributors to this volume demonstrate how
humans and the environment mutually affected each other in the area
for the past 12,000 years. These essays show how the Falls region
was an attractive place to live due to its diverse ecological zones
and its abundance of high-quality chert. In chronological studies
ranging from the Early Archaic to the Late Mississippian periods,
contributors portray the rapids as at times a boundary between
Native American groups living upstream and downstream and at other
times a hub where cultures converged and blended into a distinct
local identity. The essays analyze and track changes in stone tool
styles, mortuary traditions, settlement patterns, plant
consumption, and ceramic production. Together, the chapters in this
volume illustrate that the Falls of the Ohio was a focal point on
the human landscape throughout the Holocene era. Providing a
foundation for future work in this location, they show how the
region's geography and ecology shaped the ways humans organized
themselves within it and how in turn these groups impacted the area
through their changing social, economic, and political
circumstances.
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