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Holocene hunter-gatherers of the lower Ohio River Valley /

By the Early Holocene (10,000 to 8,000 B.P.), small wandering bands of Archaic hunter-gatherers began to annually follow the same hunting trails, basing their temporary camps on seasonal conditions and the presence of food. The Pleistocene glaciers had receded by this time, making food more plentifu...

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Main Author: Jefferies, Richard W.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ℗♭2009.
Subjects:
Paleo-Indians > Ohio River Valley.
Hunting and gathering societies > Ohio River Valley.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Ohio River Valley.
Land settlement > Ohio River Valley > History.
Landscapes > Social aspects > Ohio River Valley > History.
Paleo-Indians > Agriculture > Ohio River Valley.
Paleoecology > Ohio River Valley.
Human ecology > Ohio River Valley > History.
Social archaeology > Ohio River Valley.
History.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Human ecology.
Hunting and gathering societies.
Land settlement.
Landscapes > Social aspects.
Paleo-Indians.
Paleo-Indians > Agriculture.
Paleoecology.
Social archaeology.
Ohio River Valley > Antiquities.
Ohio River Valley.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Physical landscape
  • Hunter-gatherer archaeological research in the lower Ohio Valley
  • Peopling the valley : the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene transition
  • Early Holocene foragers
  • The Middle Holocene : settling into the valley
  • The Late Holocene : filling the landscape
  • Hunter-gatherer landscapes in space and time.

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