The Fort Ancient Aspect
The Fort Ancient Aspect

Author: James Bennett Griffin

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1966-01-01

Total Pages: 755

ISBN-13: 1949098176

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James B. Griffin presents an analysis of the archaeological remains from central Ohio Valley. He reports on sites in Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky, including the Baum site, the Feurt site, the Madisonville site, and more. This encyclopedic work is based in large part on Griffin’s study of the pottery collection in the Ceramic Repository for the Eastern United States, held at the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. Lavishly illustrated with 185 black and white photographs, maps, and figures.

The Prehistoric People of the Fort Ancient Culture of the Central Ohio Valley
The Prehistoric People of the Fort Ancient Culture of the Central Ohio Valley

Author: Louise M. Robbins

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1972-01-01

Total Pages: 726

ISBN-13: 093220645X

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Louise M. Robbins analyzes prehistoric human remains from sites in the central Ohio Valley. She organizes them into five groups and describes the varieties. She also sorts the remains by culture (Baum, Feurt, Anderson, Madisonville). Extensive appendices on metrical and morphological terminology, data, descriptions, drawings, and more.

Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture
Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture

Author: Darla Spencer

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1467118516

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Once thought of as Indian hunting grounds with no permanent inhabitants, West Virginia is teeming with evidence of a thriving early native population. Today's farmers can hardly plow their fields without uncovering ancient artifacts, evidence of at least ten thousand years of occupation. Members of the Fort Ancient culture resided along the rich bottomlands of southern West Virginia during the Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric periods. Lost to time and rediscovered in the 1880s, Fort Ancient sites dot the West Virginia landscape. This volume explores sixteen of these sites, including Buffalo, Logan and Orchard. Archaeologist Darla Spencer excavates the fascinating lives of some of the Mountain State's earliest inhabitants in search of who these people were, what languages they spoke and who their descendants may be.

Mississippian Settlement Patterns
Mississippian Settlement Patterns

Author: Bruce D. Smith

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2014-05-10

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 1483220249

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Studies in Archeology: Mississippian Settlement Patterns explains the cultural organization of many of the prehistoric societies in the Eastern United States during the last 1000 years of their existence. This book emphasizes the difference between the central core of Mississippian societies and those peripheral societies that preceded its development. Readers are advised to begin the examination of this compilation by reading Chapter 16 first, followed by Chapters 8 to 13 and 15, in order to understand the variations of patterning among societies that are commonly regarded as nascent or developed Mississippian. The rest of the chapters analyze cultural groups on the West, North, and Northeast that are not Mississippian societies, including a discussion of late prehistoric societies that are in some ways divergent but are sometimes regarded as Mississippian. This publication is valuable to archeologists, historians, and researchers conducting work on Mississippian societies.

Continuity and Change in the Native American Village
Continuity and Change in the Native American Village

Author: Robert A. Cook

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-11-02

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1107043794

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Cook demonstrates that we can better allow for affiliation of archaeological sites with living descendants by more fully examining the complexity of the past.

W. C. McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method
W. C. McKern and the Midwestern Taxonomic Method

Author: R. Lee Lyman

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0817312226

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This volume explains the deep influence of biological methods and theories on the practice of Americanist archaeology by exploring W.C. McKern's use of Linnaean taxonomy as the model for development of a pottery classification system.