Indigenous life around the Great Lakes : war, climate, and culture / Richard W. Edwards IV.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Richard W., IV, author.

Conference Name:

Midwest Archaeological Conference.

Series:

Midwest archaeological perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oneota Indians (Great Plains).

Indians of North America--Great Lakes Region (North America)--History.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Great Lakes Region (North America)--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Enormous changes affected the inhabitants of the Eastern Woodlands area during the eleventh through fifteenth centuries AD. At this time many groups across this area (known collectively to archaeologists as Oneota) were aggregating and adopting new forms of material culture and food technology. This same period also witnessed an increase in intergroup violence, as well as a rise in climatic volatility with the onset of the Little Ice Age. In Indigenous Life around the Great Lakes, Richard W. Edwards explores how the inhabitants of the western Great Lakes region responded to the challenges of climate change, social change, and the increasingly violent physical landscape. As a case study, Edwards focuses on a group living in the Koshkonong Locality in what is now southeastern Wisconsin. Edwards contextualizes Koshkonong within the larger Oneota framework and in relation to the other groups living in the western Great Lakes and surrounding regions. Making use of a canine surrogacy approach, which avoids the destruction of human remains, Edwards analyzes the nature of groups' subsistence systems, the role of agriculture, and the risk-management strategies that were developed to face the challenges of their day. Based on this analysis, Edwards proposes how the inhabitants of this region organized themselves and how they interacted with neighboring groups. Edwards ultimately shows how the Oneota groups were far more agricultural than previously thought and also demonstrates how the maize agriculture of these groups was related to the structure of their societies."--publisher description

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: One. Culture History and Archaeological Background

Two. Risk Management and Other Theoretical Considerations

Three. Methods and Methodology

Four. Results of Macrobotanical Data Collection

Five. Results of Isotopic Data Collection

Six. The Koshkonong Diet

Seven. Regional Dietary Trends

Eight. Understanding the Implications of Agriculture

Nine. Risk Management in Oneota Economies

Ten. Assessing the Relationship between Agriculture and Political Complexity in the Midcontinent

Eleven. Conclusions.

Notes:

"MAC Midwest Archaeological Conference, Inc."

Includes bibliographic references (pages 243-279) and index.

ISBN:

9780268108182

0268108188

9780268108175

026810817X

OCLC:

1137855815