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Household economy at Wall Ridge : a fourteenth-century Central Plains farmstead in the Missouri Valley / edited by Stephen C. Lensink, Joseph A. Tiffany and Shirley J. Schermer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Iowa.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Wall Ridge Site (Iowa).
- Mills County (Iowa)--Antiquities.
- Mills County (Iowa).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Household Economy at Wall Ridge tells the story of a Native American household that occupied a lodge on the eastern Plains border during the early 1300s AD. Contributors use cutting-edge methods and the site's unparalleled archaeological record to shed light on the daily technological, subsistence, and dietary aspects of the occupants' lives. This work represents the first comprehensive study of a prehistoric Central Plains household in over half a century"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction / by Joseph A. Tiffany, Stephen C. Lensink, and Shirley J. Schermer
- Site context / by Shirley J. Schermer, Joseph A. Tiffany, and Stephen C. Lensink
- Project overview and methods / by Shirley J. Schermer, Joseph A. Tiffany, and Stephen C. Lensink
- Excavation results / by Stephen C. Lensink, Shirley J. Schermer, and Joseph A. Tiffany
- Radiocarbon dating of the Wall Ridge site / by Stephen C. Lensink
- Ceramics / by Joseph A. Tiffany
- Lithics / by Toby A. Morrow and Michael J. Perry
- Pipes / by Joseph A. Tiffany
- Bone and shell tools / by Joseph A. Tiffany and James L. Theler
- Botanical remains / by William Green
- Zoological remains / by James L. Theler
- Lodge life history / by Stephen C. Lensink and Joseph A. Tiffany
- Lodge housekeeping / by Stephen C. Lensink, Joseph A. Tiffany, and Michael J. Perry
- Interpretations and summary / by Joseph A. Tiffany, Stephen C. Lensink, James L. Theler, William Green, and Shirley J. Schermer.
- Notes:
- "The Wall Ridge site was discovered in 1983 during an archaeological survey for a road project in Mills County, Iowa"--Chapter 2, Site context.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781607817741
- 1607817748
- OCLC:
- 1145922809
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