RT Book
T1 Feasting with shellfish in the southern Ohio Valley: archaic sacred sites and rituals
A2 Claassen, Cheryl 1953-
LA English
PP Knoxville
PB University of Tennessee Press
YR 2010
ED 1st ed.
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1655085972
AB "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
NO Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-264) and index. - Description based on print version record
CN E78.O4
SN 9781572337336
SN 1572337338
K1 Indians of North America : Antiquities : Ohio River Valley
K1 Indians of North America : Rites and ceremonies : Ohio River Valley
K1 Kitchen-middens : Ohio River Valley
K1 Shellfish : Social aspects : History : Ohio River Valley
K1 Excavations (archaeology) : Ohio River Valley
K1 Sacred Space : History : Ohio River Valley
K1 Landscapes : Social aspects : History : Ohio River Valley
K1 Indians of North America : Ohio River Valley : Antiquities
K1 Indians of North America : Ohio River Valley : Rites and ceremonies
K1 Shellfish : Social aspects : Ohio River Valley : History
K1 Sacred Space : Ohio River Valley : History
K1 Landscapes : Social aspects : Ohio River Valley : History
K1 History
K1 Indians of North America ; Antiquities
K1 Indians of North America ; Rites and ceremonies
K1 Kitchen-middens
K1 Landscapes ; Social aspects
K1 Sacred Space
K1 HISTORY ; State & Local
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
K1 Antiquities
K1 Excavations (archaeology)
K1 HISTORY ; State & Local ; General
K1 Ohio River Valley : Antiquities
K1 Green River Valley (Ky.) : Antiquities
K1 Tennessee River Valley : Antiquities
K1 Ohio River Valley
K1 United States ; Tennessee River Valley
K1 Kentucky ; Green River Valley
K1 Electronic books