Prairie Peninsula
Part of: Eastern Archaic Faunal Working Group
Archaic Faunal Datasets from the Prairie Peninsula Region
Site Name Keywords
Koster
Culture Keywords
Archaic •
Early Archaic •
Middle Archaic
Material Types
Fauna
Temporal Keywords
Middle Archaic •
Early Archaic •
Archaic
Geographic Keywords
Green County, Illinois •
United States of America (Country) •
Illinois (State / Territory) •
Greene County (County) •
North America (Continent) •
USA (Country)
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EARLY-MIDDLE ARCHAIC SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES: CHANGES IN FAUNAL EXPLOITATION AT THE KOSTER SITE (1982)
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This study uses faunal remains from Horizons 11-8A of the Koster Site, Greene County, Illinois, as the basis for examining subsistence change during the Early-Middle Archaic transition in the Midwest. Two related issues are considered. First, did significant changes in subsistence strategies occur? Second, what were the probable causes of subsistence change? Current evidence from the lower Illinois River Valley suggests that subsistence change is closely related to changes in settlement or...