Archaeology of Minnesota [electronic resource] : the prehistory of the upper Mississippi river region / Guy Gibbon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibbon, Guy E., 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleo-Indians--Minnesota.

Paleo-Indians.

Mississippian culture--Minnesota.

Mississippian culture.

Indians of North America--Minnesota--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Minnesota--Antiquities.

Minnesota.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Histories of Minnesota typically begin with seventeenth-century French fur traders exploring the western shores of Lake Superior. And yet, archaeology reveals that Native Americans lived in the region at least 13,000 years before such European incursions. Archaeology of Minnesota tells their story-or as much as the region's wealth of artifacts, evidence of human activity, and animal and plant remains can convey.From archaeological materials, Guy Gibbon reconstructs the social, economic, and political systems-the lifeways-of those who inhabited what we now call Minnesota

Contents:

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Tools of the Trade; 1. Environments of Minnesota; Paleoindian and Archaic Period, circa 11,200 to 500 BC; 2. First People: Paleoindian and Early Eastern Archaic Adaptations; 3. Prairie Everywhere: Middle and Late Archaic Adaptations; Initial Woodland Period, circa 1000-500 BC to AD 500-700; 4. Southern Deer Hunters, Gardeners, and Bison Hunters: Initial Woodland Adaptations in Southern Minnesota; 5. Northern Hunters, Fishers, and Wild Rice Harvesters: Initial Woodland Adaptations in Central and Northern Minnesota

Terminal Woodland and Mississippian Period, circa AD 500-700 to 16506. Terminal Woodland Effigy Mound Builders and Bison Hunters: Terminal Woodland Adaptations in Southern Minnesota; 7. First Tribes in Southern Minnesota:Mississippian and Plains Village Adaptations; 8. First Tribes in Central and Northern Minnesota:Terminal Woodland Adaptations; Conclusion: Long-Term Pattern in the Past; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8176-7

OCLC:

829461159