Hunting for Hides [electronic resource] : Deerskins, Status, and Cultural Change in the Protohistoric Appalachians

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lapham, Heather A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Appalachian Region, Southern--Antiquities.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Indians of North America--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Indians of North America--Hunting--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Local Subjects:

Appalachian Region, Southern--Antiquities.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Indians of North America--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Indians of North America--Hunting--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Changes in Native American communities as they adapted to advancing Europeans. This volume investigates the use of deer, deerskins, and non-local goods in the period from A.D. 1400 to 1700 to gain a comprehensive understanding of historic-era cultural changes taking place within Native American communities in the southern Appalachian Highlands. In the 1600's, hunting deer to obtain hides for commercial trade evolved into a substantial economic enterprise for many Native Americans in the Middle Atlantic and Southeast. An overseas market demand for animal hides

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Economic Intensification and Cultural Change; 2. Late Woodland and Protohistoric Archaeology in the Southern Ridge and Valley; 3. Ridge and Valley Animal Exploitation; 4. Deer Hunting and Hide Production; 5. Mortuary Practices and Prestige Goods Use; 6. Understanding Cultural Change in the Protohistoric Southern Appalachian Highlands; References Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8377-8

OCLC:

773826997