Feasting with shellfish in the southern Ohio Valley : Archaic sacred sites and rituals
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Feasting with shellfish in the southern Ohio Valley : Archaic sacred sites and rituals
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- Feasting with shellfish in the southern Ohio Valley : Archaic sacred sites and rituals
- Title remainder
- Archaic sacred sites and rituals
- Statement of responsibility
- Cheryl Claassen
- Subject
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- Antiquities
- Electronic book
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Ohio River Valley
- Green River Valley (Ky.) -- Antiquities
- HISTORY -- State & Local
- HISTORY -- State & Local | General
- History
- Indians of North America -- Antiquities
- Indians of North America -- Ohio River Valley -- Antiquities
- Indians of North America -- Ohio River Valley -- Rites and ceremonies
- Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies
- Kentucky -- Green River Valley
- Kitchen-middens
- Kitchen-middens -- Ohio River Valley
- Landscapes -- Social aspects
- Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Ohio River Valley -- History
- Ohio River Valley
- Ohio River Valley -- Antiquities
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- Sacred space
- Sacred space -- Ohio River Valley -- History
- Shellfish -- Social aspects -- Ohio River Valley -- History
- Tennessee River Valley -- Antiquities
- United States -- Tennessee River Valley
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In this provocative work, Cheryl Claassen challenges long-standing notions about hunter-gatherer life in the southern Ohio Valley as it unfolded some 8,000 to 3,500 years ago. Focusing on freshwater shell mounds scattered along the Tennessee, Ohio, Green, and Harpeth rivers, Claassen draws on the latest archaeological research to offer penetrating new insights into the sacred world of Archaic peoples. Some of the most striking ideas are that there were no villages in the southern Ohio Valley during the Archaic period, that all of the trading and killing were for ritual purposes, and that body positioning in graves reflects cause of death primarily"--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 977
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E78.O4
- LC item number
- C55 2010eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- bibliography
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