Title Feasting with shellfish in the southern Ohio Valley : Archaic sacred sites and rituals / Cheryl Claassen.

Publication Info.	Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Edition	1st ed.
Description	1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-264) and index.
Contents	Thinking about Archaic hunter-gatherers -- Archaic shell-bearing sites of the southern Ohio Valley -- Locations of shell-bearing sites -- Overexploitation of mollusks -- Demise of the Hypsithermal -- Ohio River Valley shell-bearing sites : villages? -- Ceremonial districts of the southern Ohio Valley -- Archaic rituals at shell-bearing sites -- From Archaic villages to ritual camps : the theoretical landscape.
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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	History.
	Tennessee River Valley -- Antiquities.
	Kitchen-middens -- Ohio River Valley.
	Green River Valley (Ky.) -- Antiquities.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
	Ohio River Valley -- Antiquities.
	HISTORY -- State & Local.
	Sacred space -- Ohio River Valley -- History.
	Indians of North America -- Ohio River Valley -- Antiquities.
	Landscapes -- Social aspects -- Ohio River Valley -- History.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- Ohio River Valley -- Antiquities.
Subject	Excavations (Archaeology) -- Ohio River Valley.
	HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- Ohio River Valley -- Rites and ceremonies.
Subject	Shellfish -- Social aspects -- Ohio River Valley -- History.
	Indians of North America -- Ohio River Valley -- Rites and ceremonies.
Other Form:	Print version: Claassen, Cheryl, 1953- Feasting with shellfish in the southern Ohio Valley. 1st ed. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2010 9781572337145 (DLC) 2010011935 (OCoLC)605014008
ISBN	9781572337336 (electronic bk.)
	1572337338 (electronic bk.)

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