Mound Centers and Seed Security A Comparative Analysis of Botanical Assemblages from Middle Woodland Sites in the Lower Illinois Valley /

• Main Author: Mueller, Natalie G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Plant Science,
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant Ecology.; Botany.; Archaeology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5921-7

At Middle Woodland sites in the eastern United States, excavations have uncovered naturalistic art worked on exotic materials from points as distant Wyoming, Ontario, and the Gulf Coast, revealing a network of ritual exchange referred to as the Hopewell phenomenon. Simultaneously, Middle Woodland so...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• What is Hopewell?: The Lower Illinois Valley in a Regional Context
• Middle Woodland Subsistence and Settlement in the Lower Illinois Valley
• Plant Use at Mound House
• Comparative Analysis
• Conclusions: Mounds and Seed Exchange.