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Falls of the Ohio River

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Cemeteries
ceramic production
Chert
Chert Procurement
Domestic Structures
Early Archaic
Environmental Setting
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Falls of the Ohio
Falls of the Ohio River
Historic Accounts
Historical Archaeology
Holocene
Indiana
Kentucky
Knob Creek Complex
local identity
Louisville
Middle Ohio River Geomorphology
Mississippian
Mortuary Traditions
Native American groups
Ohio River
Ohio River Valley
plant consumption
Rapids
regional trends
Sedimentation Histories
Settlement and Mobility Dynamics
Settlement Patterning
Social Bioarchaeology
social boundaries
Social Identity
stone tools
Subsistence Practices
Violence

Product details

  • ISBN 9781683402039
  • Weight: 758g
  • Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 25 May 2021
  • Publisher: University Press of Florida
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description
Falls of the Ohio River presents current archaeological research on an important landscape feature: a series of low, cascading rapids along the Ohio River on the border of Kentucky and Indiana. Using the perspective of historical ecology and synthesizing data from recent excavations, contributors to this volume demonstrate how humans and the environment mutually affected each other in the area for the past 12,000 years.

These essays show how the Falls region was an attractive place to live due to its diverse ecological zones and its abundance of high-quality chert. In chronological studies ranging from the Early Archaic to the Late Mississippian periods, contributors portray the rapids as at times a boundary between Native American groups living upstream and downstream and at other times a hub where cultures converged and blended into a distinct local identity. The essays analyze and track changes in stone tool styles, mortuary traditions, settlement patterns, plant consumption, and ceramic production.

Together, the chapters in this volume illustrate that the Falls of the Ohio was a focal point on the human landscape throughout the Holocene era. Providing a foundation for future work in this location, they show how the region's geography and ecology shaped the ways humans organized themselves within it and how in turn these groups impacted the area through their changing social, economic, and political circumstances.
About
David Pollack, director of the Kentucky Archaeological Survey at Western Kentucky University, is the author of Caborn-Welborn: Constructing a New Society after the Angel Chiefdom Collapse.

Anne Tobbe Bader is the owner of Corn Island Archaeology in Louisville, Kentucky.

Justin N. Carlson is project director for the Kentucky Archaeological Survey at Western Kentucky University.