This publication concerns the inhabitants of Missouri and adjacent related regions from the earliest settlers until aproximately 1000 B.C. It is organized along the general lines of the broad interpretations of archaeology of the Eastern United Staes.

Archaeology of Missouri, #1

History

Carl H. Chapman

Americas

University of Missouri Press

This is the second volume of the definitive account of Missouri archaeology by the master of the subject. (The first volume describes the physical environment and prehistory of Missouri through the Archaic period.) This volume takes up the record of Missouri's human population at the beginning of the Woodland period, in 1000 B.V., and ends with protohistoric times, just prior to European contact. Because of its central location and favorable environment, the lower Missouri - central Mississippi Valley played a vital role in the development of a succession of North American cultures. The period covered here saw the first great cultural climax of North America, the Hopewellian Interaction Sphere, which affected Missouri during the Middle Woodland period, 500 B.C.-A.D. 400. During this peak of cultural florescence, extensive trade networks reached from the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians, the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Ideas as well as trade goods were continuously exchanged between different regions of the New World. A second period of considerable cultural sophistication occurred in Missouri between the tenth and thirteenth centuries A.D. The Prairie Village Farmers of this Classic Mississippi period used flat-topped mounds as the bases for their important buildings and lived in village settlements that surrounded ceremonial centers. These patterns suggest cultural borrowings from Mesoamerica and South America. Clearly written and profusely illustrated with maps and drawings by Eleanor F. Chapman as well as photographs of sites and artifacts, this book is certain to become a standard reference both for archaeologist and for lay readers.

The Archaeology of Missouri, Vol. 2

This expanded edition of Indians and Archaeology of Missouri gives an excellent introduction to the cultural development of Missouri’s Indians during the past twelve thousand years. Providing a new chapter on the Hunter Foragers of the Dalton period and substantial revision of other chapters to incorporate recent discoveries, the Chapmans present knowledge based upon decades of experience with archaeological excavations in an understandable and fascinating form.The first edition of Indians and Archaeology of Missouri has been recognized in Missouri and nationally as one of the best books of its kind. The Missouri Historical Review called it ";simply indispensable."; The Plains Anthropologist added similar praise: ";Clearly written and exceptionally well illustrated¦it is the answer to the amateur’s prayers."; Archaeology described it as ";a boon to Missouri’s many amateur archaeologists, a

Indians and Archaeology of Missouri University of Missouri Press Handbook Number Five 1964

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