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Author Lapham, Heather A. (Heather Alynn), 1969-

Title Hunting for hides : deerskins, status, and cultural change in the protohistoric Appalachians / Heather A. Lapham.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 184 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Note "A Dan Josselyn memorial publication"--Page [ii].
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Virginia).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-177) and index.
Contents Economic intensification and cultural change -- Late Woodland and protohistoric archaeology in the southern ridge and valley -- Ridge and valley animal exploitation -- Deer hunting and hide production -- Mortuary practices and prestige goods use -- Understanding cultural change in the protohistoric southern Appalachian highlands.
Summary Changes in Native American communities as they adapted to advancing Europeans. ℗¡ This volume investigates the use of deer, deerskins, and nonlocal goods in the period from A.D. 1400 to 1700 to gain a comprehensive understanding of historic-era cultural changes taking place within Native American communities in the southern Appalachian Highlands. In the 1600s, hunting deer to obtain hides for commercial trade evolved into a substantial economic enterprise for many Native Americans in the Middle Atlantic and Southeast.℗¡ An overseas market demand for animal hides and furs imported from the Americ.
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Subject Indians of North America -- Hunting -- Appalachian Region, Southern.
Indians of North America -- Hunting.
Southern Appalachian Region.
Indians of North America -- Appalachian Region, Southern.
Indians of North America.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Appalachian Region, Southern.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Chronological Term Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Lapham, Heather A. (Heather Alynn), 1969- Hunting for hides. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2005 0817314938 (DLC) 2005015399 (OCoLC)60550587
ISBN 9780817383770 (electronic book)
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