Upland Rockshelters and Late Woodland Communities in the Hocking Valley, Southeastern Ohio

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ID11380265
AuthorsStaci E Spertzel Black (Heberling Associates, Inc., Alexandria, Pennsylvania, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume31
Issue3
Pages405-426
Publication date2010-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNorth American Archaeologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0197-6931 • E-ISSN: 1541-3543
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/na.31.3-4.g
OpenAlexW2060524802
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

More than 50 years of studies in the southeastern region of Ohio confirm an intensification of the use of rockshelters as specialized task localities during the Late Woodland period. This article addresses rockshelters within the broader community organization of the Late Woodland landscape involving hunting and lithic resource procurement activities. In the Hocking Valley, settlement studies have shown a transition from dispersed Early to Middle Woodland household hamlets situated along the upper tributaries of Monday and Sunday creeks to Late Woodland nucleated household villages along the main stem of the Hocking River proper. Facing Monday Creek Rockshelter is offered as an example of the Late Woodland community's use of the region's many upland rockshelters. I propose that the Late Woodland exploitation of upper tributary rockshelter settings for the hunting and gathering of target resources was fundamental to the larger residential farming settlements situated in the alluvial valley

Archaeology · Geography · Human settlement · Period (music · Resource (disambiguation · Settlement (finance · Tributary · Woodland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology

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