Feasting with shellfish in the southern Ohio Valley :: Archaic sacred sites and rituals /

"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...

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1. Verfasser: Claassen, Cheryl, 1953-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010.
Ausgabe:1st ed.
Schriftenreihe:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Zusammenfassung:"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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 275 pages :)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-264) and index.
ISBN:9781572337336
1572337338