Title Archaeology of Carrier Mills : 10,000 Years in the Saline Valley of Illinois / Richard W. Jefferies

Published Southern Illinois University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction -- The Present and Past Environments -- Hunters and Gatherers : 8000-1000 B.C. -- The Woodland People : 1000 B.C.-A.D. 1000 -- Mississippian Farmsteaders : A.D. 1000-1600 --. Lakeview : A Nineteenth Century Black Community -- A Retrospective Look Summary Archaeological sites throughout southern Illinois provide a chronicle of change, of the varying ways people have lived in that area over the past 10,000 years. One of the richest and most environmentally diverse sites (low uplands, lakes, swamps, the Saline River, the Shawnee Hills) in southern Illinois is located approximately two miles south of Carrier Mills. This book focuses on the results of a five-year archaeological investigation at three sites located in a 143-acre area known as the Carrier Mills Archaeological District. This area, rich in archaeological treasures and keys to the prehistoric people of southern Illinois, is also coal mining territory. In cooperation with Peabody Coal Company, archaeologists in this study have sought to learn the ages of the various prehistoric occupations represented at the sites; to better understand the technology and social organization of these prehistoric people; to better understand the environment; to collect information about diet, health, and physical characteristics of the prehistoric inhabitants; and to investigate the remains of the 19th-century Lakeview settlement.-- description provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-161) and index Notes English Print version record Subject African Americans -- Illinois -- Carrier Mills Region -- Antiquities Indians of North America -- Illinois -- Carrier Mills Region -- Antiquities SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. African Americans -- Antiquities Antiquities Indians of North America -- Antiquities SUBJECT Illinois -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064295 Carrier Mills Region (Ill.) -- Antiquities Subject Illinois Illinois -- Carrier Mills Region Form Electronic book ISBN 1306137985 9781306137980 9780809333059 0809333058 9780809333066 0809333066 080931309X 9780809313099

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