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A Comparative Analysis of the Archaic through Woodland Period Landscape Usage and Occupation History of the Nazarene Rockshelter (33HO701), Hocking County, Ohio

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2009, Master of Science (MS), Ohio University, Environmental Studies (Arts and Sciences).
In the Hocking Valley, southeastern Ohio, rockshelter occupations date primarily to the Late Archaic Period and Late Woodland Period. The transition from the Archaic Period to the Woodland Period represents a shift in the usage of the landscape by prehistoric peoples and a change in occupational patterns. This transitional period is marked by a shift from mobile hunter-gatherers to more sedentary horticulturists who are associated with the advent of ceramics and burial mounds. The changes in occupational and settlement patterns are correlated with climatic shifts in the valley that resulted in altered resource availability and, as a result, prehistoric peoples altered their usage of certain landforms. These shifts in landscape and resource usage along with fluctuations in mobility and settlement patterns are reflected at Nazarene Rockshelter. These shifts correspond with changes in site density and usage at Nazarene Rockshelter. At the completion of the analysis of the Woodland component at this site and incorporation of these data with the previously studied Archaic component, these changes are now better defined.
Elliot M. Abrams, PhD (Advisor)
Freter-Abrams Anncorinne, PhD (Committee Member)
Springer Gregory, PhD (Committee Member)
105 p.

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  • Nelson, N. R. (2009). A Comparative Analysis of the Archaic through Woodland Period Landscape Usage and Occupation History of the Nazarene Rockshelter (33HO701), Hocking County, Ohio [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1256751859

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Nelson, Natasha. A Comparative Analysis of the Archaic through Woodland Period Landscape Usage and Occupation History of the Nazarene Rockshelter (33HO701), Hocking County, Ohio. 2009. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1256751859.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Nelson, Natasha. "A Comparative Analysis of the Archaic through Woodland Period Landscape Usage and Occupation History of the Nazarene Rockshelter (33HO701), Hocking County, Ohio." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1256751859

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)