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Sedentism in the Middle Woodland: Archaeobotanical Evidence from the Strait Site

Leone, Karen L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392307246

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2007, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Anthropology.
As paleoethnobotanists and archaeologists try to gain an understanding of why prehistoric hunter-gatherers became farmers, they do so by analyzing evolutionary changes in subsistence strategies, settlement patterns, and social organization. Archaeobotanical analysis of the Strait site, a late Middle Woodland nucleated Hopewell village in Fairfield County, Ohio is the focus of this thesis. The Strait villagers subsisted on hunting, gathered wild foods that included a substantial nut component, and low-level farming of domesticates of the Eastern Agricultural Complex. Further, the earliest known tobacco seeds in Ohio have been recovered from the site. Using paleoethnobotanical indicators of occupation intensity, I have concluded that the Strait village was most likely occupied on a year-round basis, thus supporting the Aggregated Village Settlement Pattern Model. A comparative study demonstrates that although Strait’s subsistence strategy patterning transpired within the late Middle Woodland period, it is part of a trend that shows a shifting of importance of food resources that generally occurs with more frequency in the early Late Woodland period, after the decline of the Hopewell culture complex. The Strait site is an example of a peripheral Hopewell community that was changing its relationship to the land, as evidenced in shifts in subsistence and settlement patterns, a century or more before the core communities did the same.
Kristen J. Gremillion (Advisor)
William S. Dancey (Committee Member)
Jeffrey Cohen (Committee Member)
72 p.
Archaeology; Paleoecology

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  • Leone, K. L. (2007). Sedentism in the Middle Woodland: Archaeobotanical Evidence from the Strait Site [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392307246

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Leone, Karen. Sedentism in the Middle Woodland: Archaeobotanical Evidence from the Strait Site. 2007. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392307246.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Leone, Karen. "Sedentism in the Middle Woodland: Archaeobotanical Evidence from the Strait Site." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392307246

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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