| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Pottery studies in Mississippian archaeology -- Decorated plates, bottles, bowls, and jars -- Closed and open handles -- Angel negative painted plates -- Chronology of the Angel site and phase -- Angel in regional perspective. |
| Summary |
Located near present-day Evansville, Indiana, the Angel site is one of the important archaeological towns associated with prehistoric Mississippian society. More than two million artifacts were collected from this site during excavations from 1939 to 1989, but, until now, no systematic survey of the pottery sherds had been conducted. This volume, documenting the first in-depth analysis of Angel site pottery, also provides scholars of Mississippian culture with a chronology of this important site. Angel is generally thought to have been occupied from before A.D. 1200 to 1450, but scholars have b. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Angel Mounds State Historic Site (Ind.)
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Indians of North America -- Indiana -- Antiquities.
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Indians of North America. |
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Indiana. |
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Antiquities. |
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Mississippian culture -- Indiana.
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Mississippian culture. |
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Indiana -- Antiquities.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hilgeman, Sherri Lynn, 1958- Pottery and chronology at Angel. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000 (DLC) 99050763 (OCoLC)42976768 |
| ISBN |
9780817383725 (electronic book) |
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0817383727 (electronic book) |
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0817310355 |
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9780817310356 |
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0817310355 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817310356 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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