Beschreibung:
Cheryl Claassen is a professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University, the author of Feasting with Shellfish in the Southern Ohio Valley: Archaic Sacred Sites and Rituals, and coeditor of Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica.
Describes, illustrates, and offers non-dogmatic interpretations of rituals and beliefs in Archaic America. In compiling a wealth of detailed entries, author Cheryl Claassen has created both an exhaustive reference as well as an opening into new archaeological taxonomies, connections, and understandings of Native American culture.