Stone Tools and Mobility in the Illinois Valley - From Hunter-Gatherer Camps to Agricultural Villages (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)

In this volume, Odell presents a detailed comparative analysis of standardized lithic data from 10 Illinois Valley components spanning 7500 years from the Early Archaic through the Mississippian perhaps the first time that such a comprehensive set of lithic variables has been analyzed for the entire Holocene of a region. A major part of this study constitutes the most extensive application of low-power lithic use-wear analysis to be found in the literature, accompanied by full discussion of the technique and a suite of new experimental data. The results provide significant information on prehistoric mobility and technological organization in mid-continental North America, revealing clearly for the first time a number of significant behavioral trends: e.g., an increase in the hafting of tools, economizing behavior in chert-poor areas, apparent change in projectile technology, changes in tool use intensity, and symboling behavior. These trends are supported by a massive set of easily accessible tables of data located in the appendix."

General

Imprint:	International Monographs in Prehistory
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	International Monographs in Prehistory: Archaeological Series
Release date:	December 1996
First published:	December 1996
Authors:	George H. Odell
Dimensions:	279 x 216mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	418
Edition:	Illustrated Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-879621-22-0
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeology by period / region > Prehistoric archaeology
LSN:	1-879621-22-3
Barcode:	9781879621220

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