Woodland Subsistence-Settlement Systems in the Lower Illinois Valley

Settling down with anthropomorphic clay figurines in eastern North America

“…In the central Illinois River valley, small, dispersed settlements and the use of crypt-ramp burial mounds appear by the last century BCE (Struever, 1965(Struever, , 1968Ruby et al, 2005). By approximately 50 BCE, settlement expanded south into the largely unoccupied lower Illinois river valley, as evidenced by the bluff-top mound groups that were constructed in a generally north to south chronological trend over several hundred years (Buikstra and Charles, 1999;Ruby et al, 2005;King et al, 2011;Herrmann et al, 2014;Farnsworth and Atwell, 2015, p. 199).…”

Subsistence-Settlement Systems and Intersite Variability in the Moroiso Phase of the Early Jomon Period of Japan

“…Furthermore, archaeologists suggest that the Archaic and the Early and Middle Woodland in eastern North America (Ai kens , Bender 1985a, cf. Bernstein 1990, Sanger 1982, Struever 1968, European Mesolithic (Priee 1981, Rowley-Conwy 1983 and the Natufian in the Near East (Henry 1985, Wright 1978 represent similar kinds of cultural complexity. Using these examples, sorne scholars suggest that complex hunter-gatherers form a distinctive category between "typical" (i.e., less complex) hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists in the evolutionary trajectory of cultural development , Ames 1985, Hayden 1981a, Priee 1981.…”

H Συμβολή Των Φυτολίθων Στην Αναγνώριση Της Χρήσης Του Χώρου Στην Προϊστορία

“…Πρόκειται δηλαδή για µια αρχαιολογικά συνεπή συγκέντρωση καταλοίπων σε έναν αδρά χρονολογηµένο αρχαιολογικό ορίζοντα (Ferring 1984). Η εµφάνιση των καταλοίπων αυτών σε συγκεκριµένη χωρική διάταξη αντανακλά σύµφωνα µε τους περισσότερους αρχαιολόγους ανθρώπινες δραστηριότητες του παρελθόντος (Binford 1962, 1964, Clarke 1968, Hill 1970, Longrace 1970, Struever 1968). Από την άποψη αυτή προκύπτει η πεποίθηση ότι η προέλευση των ευρηµάτων στο χώρο µαρτυρά τις δραστηριότητες που έλαβαν χώρα εκεί.…”