Hunting for Hides - Deerskins, Status, And Cultural Change in the Protohistoric

Informationen zum Autor Heather A. Lapham is Curator of the Center for Archaeological Investigations at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and a specialist in zooarchaeology. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Investigates the use of deer! deerskins! and nonlocal goods in the period from AD 1400 to 1700. This study reveals changes in economic organization and mortuary practices that provide insights into how participation in the colonial deerskin trade initially altered Native American social relations and political systems.

Product details

• Authors: Heather A Lapham, Heather A. Lapham
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2006
• EAN: 9780817352769
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5276-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity