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Archaeology of Minnesota: The Prehistory of the Upper Mississippi River Region

Archaeology of Minnesota: The Prehistory of the Upper Mississippi River Region

Gibbon, Guy

Hardcover

AnthropologyRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 0816679096
ISBN13: 9780816679096
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Nov 19 2012
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.10 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Histories of Minnesota typically begin with seventeenth-century French fur traders exploring the western shores of Lake Superior. And yet, archaeology reveals that Native Americans lived in the region at least 13,000 years before such European incursions. Archaeology of Minnesota tells their story--or as much as the region's wealth of artifacts, evidence of human activity, and animal and plant remains can convey.

From archaeological materials, Guy Gibbon reconstructs the social, economic, and political systems--the lifeways--of those who inhabited what we now call Minnesota for thousands of years before the first contact between native peoples and Europeans. From the boreal coniferous forests to the north, to the tall grass prairie to the west and southwest, to the deciduous forest to the east and southeast, the richly diverse land of the upper Mississippi River region, crossed and bordered by all manner of waterways, was a virtual melting pot of prehistoric cultures.

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