Feasting with shellfish in the southern Ohio Valley : Archaic sacred sites and rituals

by Cheryl Claassen, 1953-

Book, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

E78.O4 C55

Publication

Publisher Unknown

Description

In this provocative work, Cheryl Claassen challenges long-standing notions about hunter-gatherer life in the southern Ohio Valley as it unfolded some 8,000 to 3,500 years ago. Focusing on freshwater shell mounds scattered along the Tennessee, Ohio, Green, and Harpeth rivers, Claassen draws on the latest archaeological research to offer penetrating new insights into the sacred world of Archaic peoples. Some of the most striking ideas are that there were no villages in the southern Ohio Valley during the Archaic period, that all of the trading and killing were for ritual purposes, and th

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34662000931573
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