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Woodland Period Systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley
University of Alabama Press, 2005 Paper: 978-0-8173-5237-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8306-0 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-1465-1 Library of Congress Classification E99.W84M54 2002 Dewey Decimal Classification 977.01
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This collection provides a comprehensive vocabulary for defining the cultural manifestation of the term “Woodland”
The Middle Ohio Valley is an archaeologically rich region that stretches from southeastern Indiana, across southern Ohio and northeastern Kentucky, and into northwestern West Virginia. In this area are some of the most spectacular and diverse Woodland Period archaeological sites in North America, but these sites and their rich cultural remains do not fit easily into the traditional Southeastern classification system. This volume, with contributions by most of the senior researchers in the field, represents an important step toward establishing terminology and taxa that are more appropriate to interpreting cultural diversity in the region.
The important questions are diverse. What criteria are useful in defining periods and cultural types, and over what spatial and temporal boundaries do those criteria hold? How can we accommodate regional variation in the development and expression of traits used to delineate periods and cultural types? How does the concept of tradition relate to periods and cultural types? Is it prudent to equate culture types with periods? Is it prudent to equate archaeological cultures with ethnographic cultures? How does the available taxonomy hinder research? Contributing authors address these issues and others in the context of their Middle Ohio Valley Woodland Period research See other books on: Brose, David S. | Clay, Rudolf Berle | Mainfort, Robert C. | Ohio River Valley | Woodland culture See other titles from University of Alabama Press |
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Woodland Period Systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley
The important questions are diverse. What criteria are useful in defining periods and cultural types, and over what spatial and temporal boundaries do those criteria hold? How can we accommodate regional variation in the development and expression of traits used to delineate periods and cultural types? How does the concept of tradition relate to periods and cultural types? Is it prudent to equate culture types with periods? Is it prudent to equate archaeological cultures with ethnographic cultures? How does the available taxonomy hinder research? Contributing authors address these issues and others in the context of their Middle Ohio Valley Woodland Period research
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University of Alabama Press, 2005
Paper: 978-0-8173-5237-0
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8306-0
Cloth: 978-0-8173-1465-1
Paper: 978-0-8173-5237-0
eISBN: 978-0-8173-8306-0
Cloth: 978-0-8173-1465-1
This collection provides a comprehensive vocabulary for defining the cultural manifestation of the term “Woodland”
The Middle Ohio Valley is an archaeologically rich region that stretches from southeastern Indiana, across southern Ohio and northeastern Kentucky, and into northwestern West Virginia. In this area are some of the most spectacular and diverse Woodland Period archaeological sites in North America, but these sites and their rich cultural remains do not fit easily into the traditional Southeastern classification system. This volume, with contributions by most of the senior researchers in the field, represents an important step toward establishing terminology and taxa that are more appropriate to interpreting cultural diversity in the region.
The important questions are diverse. What criteria are useful in defining periods and cultural types, and over what spatial and temporal boundaries do those criteria hold? How can we accommodate regional variation in the development and expression of traits used to delineate periods and cultural types? How does the concept of tradition relate to periods and cultural types? Is it prudent to equate culture types with periods? Is it prudent to equate archaeological cultures with ethnographic cultures? How does the available taxonomy hinder research? Contributing authors address these issues and others in the context of their Middle Ohio Valley Woodland Period research
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
