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1 online resource : illustrations |
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SpringerBriefs in plant science |
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SpringerBriefs in plant science.
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Contents |
What Is Hopewell?: The Lower Illinois Valley in a Regional Context -- Middle Woodland Subsistence and Settlement -- in the Lower Illinois Valley -- The Eastern Agricultural Complex -- Settlement Structure and Site Function -- Plant Use at Mound House -- Previous Investigations -- Methods -- Results -- Comparative Analysis -- Non-mound Habitation Sites -- Other Mound Centers -- Conclusions: Mounds and Seed Exchange |
Summary |
At Middle Woodland sites in the eastern United States, excavations have uncovered naturalistic art worked on exotic materials from points as distant Wyoming, Ontario, and the Gulf Coast, revealing a network of ritual exchange referred to as the Hopewell phenomenon. Simultaneously, Middle Woodland societies developed the earliest agricultural system in eastern North American using now-extinct native cultivars. Mound Centers and Seed Security: A Comparative Analysis of Botanical Assemblages from Middle Woodland Sites in the Lower Illinois Valley integrates an interpretation of these two historic |
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Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2012) |
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Springer eBooks |
Subject |
Hopewell culture -- Agriculture -- Illinois -- Illinois River Valley
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Woodland culture -- Agriculture -- Illinois -- Illinois River Valley
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Agriculture -- Technology transfer -- Illinois -- Illinois River Valley
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Agriculture, Prehistoric -- Illinois -- Illinois River Valley
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Plant remains (Archaeology) -- Illinois -- Illinois River Valley
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Paleoethnobotany -- Illinois -- Illinois River Valley
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Anthropology -- history
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Agriculture -- history
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Ethnobotany -- history
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Agriculture, Prehistoric
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Agriculture -- Technology transfer
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Paleoethnobotany
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Plant remains (Archaeology)
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SUBJECT |
Mound House Site (Ill.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97009065
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Illinois River Valley |
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Illinois |
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Illonois River Valley |
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Illinois -- Illinois River Valley
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Illinois -- Mound House Site
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781461459217 |
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1461459214 |
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1461459206 |
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9781461459200 |
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1283908824 |
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9781283908825 |
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