An Interpretation of the Two-Climax Model of Illinois Prehistory

Chapters in this book

1. I-XIV I
2. SECTION ONE. Pleistocene Man in North America
3. Introduction 3
4. The Calico Mountains Site: Pleistocene Archaeology in the Mojave Desert, California 7
5. The Metate: An Early Grain-Grinding Implement in the New World 21
6. Wisconsin and Pre-Wisconsin Stone Industries of New York State and Related Tools from a Shop Site near Tula, Mexico 41
7. The Trimmed-Core Tradition in Asiatic-American Contacts 69
8. Fractured Cherts from Pleistocene Fossiliferous Beds at Medicine Hat, Alberta 83
9. The California Coastal Region: Its Late Pleistocene and Holocene Climate and Function as an Ice Age Refugium 99
10. SECTION TWO. Microblade Traditions and Migrations
11. Introduction 117
12. Early Migrations to America in the Light of a Study of the Dyuktai Paleolithic Culture in Northeast Asia 119
13. Concerning the Cultural Contacts Between Asia and America in the Late Paleolithic 133
14. Fluted Points at the Batza Téna Obsidian Source, Northwestern Interior Alaska 141
15. Late Paleolithic Cultures in Alaska 161
16. Microblades and Prehistory: Technological and Cultural Considerations for the North Pacific Coast 189
17. SECTION THREE. Paleodemography
18. Introduction 201
19. An Ecological Interpretation of Variation in Mortality Within Three Prehistoric American Indian Populations From Dickson Mounds 203
20. Patterns of Microscopic Bone Remodeling in Three Aboriginal American Populations 239
21. Epigenetic Distance: A Study of Biological Variability in the Lower Illinois River Region 271
22. A Sample of Northern North American Hunter-Gatherers and the Malthusian Thesis: An Explicitly Quantified Approach 301
23. SECTION FOUR. Later Cultural Adaptations and Technological Studies
24. Introduction 323
25. Prehistoric Diet and Parasites in the Desert West of North America 325
26. Prehistoric Basketry of Western North America and Mexico 341
27. The Introduction, Use, and Technology of Fiber-Tempered Pottery in the Southeastern United States 363
28. Coding and Cluster Analysis of Wisconsin Ceramics 373
29. The Temple Town Community: Cahokia and Amalucan Compared 391
30. An Interpretation of the Two-Climax Model of Illinois Prehistory 401
31. Biographical Notes 463
32. Index of Names 467
33. Index of Subjects 473