ABSTRACT
This volume reports on a series of multidisciplinary projects involving the Archaic period of the American Midwest. A period of innovation and technical achievement, the articles focus on changes in environmental, social, and economic factors operating in this period, and the adaptation of the hunter gatherer peoples living at this time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 5|28 pages
An Archaic Projectile Point Sequence from the Southern Prairie Peninsula
The Pigeon Roost Creek Site
chapter 7|30 pages
Archaic Mortuary Sites in the Central Mississippi Drainage
Distribution, Structure, and Behavioral Implications
chapter 8|18 pages
Napoleon Hollow and Koster Site Stratigraphy
Implications for Holocene Landscape Evolution and Studies of Archaic Period Settlement Patterns in the Lower Illinois River Valley
chapter 12|18 pages
Settlement and Subsistence at the Go-Kart North Site
A Late Archaic Titterington Occupation in the American Bottom, Illinois
