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Falls of the Ohio River

Name: Falls of the Ohio River
Author: David Pollack
ISBN: 9781683402039

Archaeology of Native American Settlement

Edited by David Pollack, Anne Tobbe Bader and Justin N. Carlson

Published by: University of Florida Press

Series: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Falls of the Ohio River presents current archaeological research on an important landscape feature of what is now Louisville, Kentucky, demonstrating how humans and the environment mutually affected each other in the area for the past 12,000 years.

318 Pages6.13 × 9.2560 b/w illus., 14 tables, notes, bibliography, and index

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Published: May 25, 2021

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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.

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.

“Synthesizes a considerable body of archaeological research and will serve as a significant benchmark for future researchers.”—Mark Seeman, editor of Cultural Variability in Context: Woodland Settlements of the Mid-Ohio Valley
“An essential volume for anyone who follows Ohio Valley archaeology. An excellent compendium of state-of-the-art knowledge.”—Brian M. Butler, emeritus faculty, Southern Illinois University

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Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction
David Pollack, Anne Tobbe Bader, and Justin N. Carlson

Chapter 2. Early Archaic Dating, Chert Use, and Settlement Mobility in the Falls Region
C. Russell Stafford

Chapter 3. Middle Archaic Lifeways and the Holocene Climatic Optimum in the Falls Region
Justin N. Carlson, Greg J. Maggard, Gary E. Stinchcomb, and Claiborne Daniel Sea

Chapter 4. The Late Middle/Early Late Archaic in the Falls Region
Anne Tobbe Bader

Chapter 5. The Late Archaic in the Falls Region: A Riverpark Site Perspective
Duane B. Simpson and Stephen T. Mocas

Chapter 6. Increased Sedentism and Signaling During the Late Archaic
Rick Burdin

Chapter 7. Middle and Late Archaic Trophy-Taking in the Falls Region
Christopher W. Schmidt

Chapter 8. The Riverton and Buck Creek Phases of the Falls Region
Stephen T. Mocas and Duane B. Simpson

Chapter 9. The Woodland Period of the Falls Region
Stephen T. Mocas

Chapter 10. Plant Use at the Falls of the Ohio: 10 Years of Regional Systems, a Sociocultural Boundary and Interaction
Jack Rossen and Jocelyn C. Turner

Chapter 11. The Early Mississippian Occupation in the Falls Region: A View from the Prather Mound Center
Cheryl Ann Munson and Robert G. McCullough

Chapter 12. Mississippian/Fort Ancient Interaction and Identity in the Falls Region
Michael W. French and David Pollack

Chapter 13. The Falls: A Changing Cultural Landscape
David Pollack, Anne Tobbe Bader, Justin N. Carlson, and Richard W. Jefferies

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