The archaeology of Carrier Mills : 10,000 years in the Saline Valley of Illinois / Richard W. Jefferies ; illustrated by Thomas W. Gatlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jefferies, Richard W.

Contributor:

Gatlin, Thomas W.

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Illinois--Carrier Mills Region--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

African Americans--Illinois--Carrier Mills Region--Antiquities.

African Americans.

Carrier Mills Region (Ill.)--Antiquities.

Carrier Mills Region (Ill.).

Illinois--Antiquities.

Illinois.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, Center for Archaeological Investigations, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Archaeological sites throughout southern Illinois provide a chronicle of change, of the varying ways people have lived in that area over the past 10,000 years. One of the richest and most environmentally diverse sites (low uplands, lakes, swamps, the Saline River, the Shawnee Hills) in southern Illinois is lo­cated approximately two miles south of Carrier Mills. This book focuses on the results of a five-year archaeological investigation at three sites located in a 143-acre area known as the Carrier Mills Archaeo­logical District. This area, rich in archaeological treasures and keys to the prehistoric people of southern Illinois, is also coal mining territory. In cooperation with Peabody Coal Company, archaeologists in this study have sought to learn the ages of the various prehistoric occupations represented at the sites; to better un­derstand the technology and social organization of these prehistoric people; to better understand the environment; to collect information about diet, health, and physical characteristics of the prehistoric inhabitants; and to investigate the remains of the 19th-century Lakeview settlement"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The Present and Past Environments; 3. Hunters and Gatherers: 8000-1000 B.C.; 4. The Woodland People: 1000 B.C.-A.D. 1000; 5. Mississippian Farmsteaders: A.D. 1000-1600; 6. Lakeview: A Nineteenth Century Black Community; 7. A Retrospective Look; References; Index; Author Biography; Back Cover

Notes:

Originally published: 1987.

"Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8093-1309-X

0-8093-3306-6

OCLC:

863673696