The Archaeological Northeast

by Michael Nassaney, Kenneth E. Sassaman, Mary Ann E. Levine

Despite the advances made in archaeology over the past generation, the Northeast remains the most misunderstood of all the archaeological regions of North America. With a complex environmental history shaped by ice sheets from the last glaciation, and highly acidic soils characteristic of the area, the kinds of organic artifacts found in other areas have been destroyed in the Northeast. The result is a sometimes evasive, particularly complicated,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897895177
• ISBN13: 9780897895170
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"