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9780817316433

Foraging in the Tennessee River Valley, 12,500 to 8,000 Years Ago

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    9780817316433

  • ISBN10:

    0817316434

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-04-19
  • Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr
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Summary

Plants are inarguably a significant component of the diets of foraging peoples in non-arctic environments. As such, the decisions and activities associated with the gathering and exploitation of plants are important to foragersrs" subsistence pursuits. Plant remains are particularly important for understanding gathering activities. Inasmuch as plant foods comprised a considerable portion of early foragersrs" diets, and the gathering and processing of these plant resources occupied a significant proportion of the population, namely women, children, and the elderly, an understanding of gathering activities and how they relate to use of the landscape is critical. Organic remains are poorly preserved in the acidic soils of the Southeast and are often limited or absent from open-air sites, but archaeological deposits protected within rockshelters provide an exception. Organic remains are consistently well preserved in their rain-protected deposits, and rockshelters are locations that groups repeatedly visited. Because of this repeated use and remarkable preservation, significant quantities of well-preserved faunal and botanical remains can be recovered from rockshelter deposits. In Foraging, Hollenbach analyzes and compares botanical remains from archaeological excavations in four rockshelters in the Middle Tennessee River Valley. The artifact assemblages of rockshelter and open-air sites are similar, so it is reasonable to assume that faunal and botanical assemblages would be similar, if open-air sites had comparable preservation of organic remains. The rich organic data recovered from rockshelters therefore may be considered representative of general subsistence and settlement strategies, and can significantly inform our views of lifeways of Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic peoples. The data produced from this analysis provides a valuable baseline of plant food use by early foragers in the region, and establishes a model of Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic lifeways in the Southeast.

Author Biography

Kandace Detwiler Hollenbach is a Research Assistant Professor at Archaeological Research Laboratory, University of Tennessee.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
Introductionp. 1
Modeling the Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic Periods in the Southeastp. 15
The Landscape of the Middle Tennessee River Valleyp. 29
Modeling Resource Procurement in the Middle Tennessee River Valleyp. 69
Paleoethnobotanical Analysis-Data and Methodsp. 98
Paleoethnobotanical Analysis-Resultsp. 146
Subsistence and Mobility in Northwest Alabamap. 207
References Citedp. 247
Indexp. 277
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