Indigenous life around the Great Lakes war, climate, and culture
Culture history and archaeological background -- Risk management and other theoretical considerations -- Methods and methodology -- Results of macrobotanical data collection -- Results of isotopic data collection -- Koshkonong diet -- Regional dietary trends -- Understanding the implications of agri...
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Notre Dame, Indiana
University of Notre Dame Press
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Midwest archaeological perspectives
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Culture history and archaeological background -- Risk management and other theoretical considerations -- Methods and methodology -- Results of macrobotanical data collection -- Results of isotopic data collection -- Koshkonong diet -- Regional dietary trends -- Understanding the implications of agriculture -- Risk management in Oneota economics -- Assessing the relationship between agriculture and political complexity in the midcontinent "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 |
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| Beschreibung: | "MAC Midwest Archaeological Conference, Inc." Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xvii, 283 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780268108182 978-0-268-10818-2 9780268108175 978-0-268-10817-5 |