The Archaeological Northeast

The Archaeological Northeast

Department

Anthropology

Document Type

Book

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Despite the advances made in archaeology over the past generation, the Northeast remains the most misunderstood of all the archaeological regions of North America. With a complex environmental history shaped by ice sheets from the last glaciation, and highly acidic soils characteristic of the area, the kinds of organic artifacts found in other areas have been destroyed in the Northeast. The result is a sometimes evasive, particularly complicated, and always fragmentary archaeological record. As the chapters in this volume demonstrate, the Northeast is a region that inspires the development of innovative research designs and thoughtful and relevant questions. Each author has been a graduate student of Dena Dincauze, who has done much to foster understanding of the prehistory of Northeastern North America.

ISBN

0897895177

Publication Date

1999

Publisher

Bergin & Garvey

City

Westport

Disciplines

Anthropology

Citation for published book

Dincauze, D., Levine, M., Sassaman, K., & Nassaney, M. (1999). The Archaeological Northeast / edited by Mary Ann Levine, Kenneth E. Sassaman, Michael S. Nassaney ; foreword by Alice B. Kehoe. (Native peoples of the Americas).

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