Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables xvii
5. Preface xix
6. Acknowledgments xxiii
7. An Archaic Overview
8. An Introduction to the Archaic Societies of the Midcontinent 3
9. The Eastern Woodlands Archaic and the Tyranny of Theory 23
10. Archaic Faunal Exploitation in the Prairie Peninsula and Surrounding Regions of the Midcontinent 39
11. A Regional and Chronological Synthesis of Archaic Period Plant Use in the Midcontinent 81
12. Archaic Burial Sites in the American Midcontinent 115
13. Dalton and the Early Holocene Midcontinent: Setting the Stage 137
14. Stratigraphic Sequences in the Archaic Period
15. Archaic Prehistory of the Western Ozarks of Southwest Missouri 155
16. Dated Projectile Point Sequences from Modoc Rock Shelter and Applications of Assemblage-Based Analysis 199
17. The Archaic Period in the Lower Illinois River Basin 229
18. Archaic Period Chronology in the Hill Country of Southern Indiana 287
19. The Mississippi River Region
20. The American Bottom: An Archaic Cultural Crossroads 317
21. Archaic Period of East-Central Missouri 377
22. Archaic Cultural Variation and Lifeways in West-Central Illinois 401
23. Archaic Periods in Eastern Iowa 491
24. The Ohio River Region and Southeast
25. The Ohio Archaic: A Review 565
26. Land between the Rivers: The Archaic Period of Southernmost Illinois 607
27. Archaic Cultures of Western Kentucky 635
28. The View from the Southeast 667
29. The Great Lakes
30. The Archaic Tradition in Wisconsin 697
31. Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations and Alternative Perspectives on the Michigan Archaic: Research Problems in Context 725
32. Defining the Archaic in Northern Illinois 755
33. At the Crossroads and Periphery: The Archaic Archaeological Record of Southern Ontario 787
34. Concluding Comments
35. Concluding Thoughts on the Archaic Occupation of the Eastern Woodlands 841
36. Index 857