Patty Jo Watson

Archaeological Ethnography in Western Iran

C. Wesley Cowan

Nancy L. Benco

The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies. Contributors include: Gary W. Crawford, Robin W. Dennell, and Jack R. Harlan.

An International Perspective

The Origins of Agriculture

Dan Morse

April Allison Zawacki

Howard D. Winters

Kubet Luchterhand

Paul Woodburn Parmalee

J. Thomas Meyers

John E. Guilday

Early Archaic Projectile Points and Hunting Patterns in the Lower Illinois Valley

Archeology of the Mammoth Cave Area

Steven A. LeBlanc

A Halafian site in southeastern Turkey

Girikihaciyan

Southeastern Archeological Conference

Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this volume offer new, contrary evidence to dispute this earlier assumption, and their studies demonstrate the vigor and complexity of prehistoric peoples in the North American Midwest and Midsouth. These peoples gathered at favored places along midcontinental streams to harvest mussels and other wild foods and to inter their dead in the shell mounds that had resulted from their riverside activities. They created a highly successful, pre-maize agricultural system beginning more than 4,000 years ago, established far-flung trade networks, and explored and mined the world's longest cave—the Mammoth Cave System in Kentucky. Contributors include: Kenneth C. Carstens, Cheryl Ann Munson, Guy Prentice, Kenneth B. Tankersley, Philip J. DiBlasi, Mary C. Kennedy, Jan Marie Hemberger, Gail E. Wagner, Christine K. Hensley, Valerie A. Haskins, Nicholas P. Herrmann, Mary Lucas Powell, Cheryl Claassen, David H. Dye, and Patty Jo Watson

Of Caves and Shell Mounds

Patty Jo Watson

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