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Modeling Woodland Land Use in the Lower Little Miami River Valley, Hamilton County, Ohio

Connolly, Jocelyn M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479816530691969

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2016, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Anthropology.
This thesis examines Woodland (ca. 1,000 B.C.E. to 1,000 C.E.) land use patterns in the lower Little Miami River valley of Ohio. Theoretically, two models can be applied to the distribution of archaeological sites that date to the Woodland cultural period in this region: an ideological based model on ceremonial and mortuary behavior and an evolutionary model based on the socio-economic optimizing and risk-reducing behaviors of human behavioral ecology. Archaeological data, including artifact typology and composition, distance from food resources, raw material resources, and water at the time of occupation, elevation, geographic location, geological landform, relative and chronometric age, soil type and underlying stratigraphic composition, site size and type, and slope, were collected from the Ohio State Historic Preservation Office (Ohio Archaeological Inventory). These data were supplemented by collector interviews, bucket auguring and soil probes, natural stream and ditch profiles, shovel testing, and systematic and opportunistic surface surveys. These data were digitized and encoded into ArcGIS 10.3.1 and used to evaluate models using multivariate regression analysis. While the availability of clay and upland resources were found to be significant, neither ideological nor human behavioral ecological models explained the distribution of archaeological sites in the lower Little Miami River valley dating to the Woodland cultural period. This situation is likely due to archaeological visibility and an inadequate understanding of Algonquian culture.
Kenneth Tankersley, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Vernon Scarborough, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
148 p.
Archaeology

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  • Connolly, J. M. (2016). Modeling Woodland Land Use in the Lower Little Miami River Valley, Hamilton County, Ohio [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479816530691969

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Connolly, Jocelyn. Modeling Woodland Land Use in the Lower Little Miami River Valley, Hamilton County, Ohio. 2016. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479816530691969.

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  • Connolly, Jocelyn. "Modeling Woodland Land Use in the Lower Little Miami River Valley, Hamilton County, Ohio." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479816530691969

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