Contributors; Preface; 1. Introduction by James L. Phillips; 2. Summary by James A. Brown; 3. The Nebo Hill Phase: Late Archaic Prehistory in the Lower Missouri Valley by Kenneth C. Reid; 4. Archaic Period Research in the Western Ozark Highland, Missouri by Marvin Kay; 5. An Archaic Projectile Point Sequence from the Southern Prairie Peninsula: The Pigeon Roost Creek Site by Michael J. O'Brien and Robert E. Warren; 6. Archaic Adaptations to the Illinois Prairie: The Salt Creek Region by R. Barry Lewis
7. Archaic Mortuary Sites in the Central Mississippi Drainage: Distribution, Structure, and Behavioral Implications by Douglas K. Charles and Jane E. Buikstra8. Napoleon Hollow and Koster Site Stratigraphy: Implications for Holocene Landscape Evolution and Studies of Archaic Period Settlement Patterns in the Lower Illinois River Valley by Michael D. Wiant, ; 9. What Happened in the Middle Archaic? Introduction to an Ecological Approach to Koster Site Archaeology by James A. Brown and Robert K. Vierra
10. The Labras Lake Site and the Paleogeographic Setting of the Late Archaic in the American Bottom by James L. Phillips and Bruce G. Gladfelter11. A Settlement-Subsistence Modle of the Terminal Late Archaic Adaptation in the American Bottom, Illinois by Thomas E. Emerson and Dale L. McElrath; 12. Settlement and Subsistence at the Go-Kart North Site: A Late Archaic Titterington Occupation in the American Bottom, Illinois by Andrew C. Fortier; 13. Modoc Rock Shelter Revisited by Bonnie W. Styles and Steven R. Ahler and Melvin L. Fowler
14. Dimensions of Middle Archaic Cultural Adaptation at teh Black Earth Site, Saline County, Illinois by Richard W. Jefferies and B. Mark Lynch15. The Shell Mound Archaic of Western Kentucky by William H. Marquardt and Patty Jo Watson; Index
Summary
This volume brings together articles that reveal the Archaic period of the American Midwest to be one of innovation and technological achievement
