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The Benefit of the Gift

The Benefit of the Gift

Mark Andrew Hill

(2012)

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Abstract

Archaeological data from the Late Archaic (4000-2000 years ago) in the Western Great Lakes are analyzed to understand the production and movement of copper and lithic exchange materials. Also considered in this volume are access to and benefits from exchange networks, as well as social changes accompanying the development of extensive, continental scale, exchange systems of interaction in this period.


Mark Andrew Hill is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Ball State University. He was formerly J Clayton Stephenson Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, and former Curator and Head of the division of Anthropology in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
The Benefit of the Gift i
Copyright ii
Table of Contents iii
List of Figures iv
List of Tables ix
Preface xi
Organization of this Volume xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
Chapter 1. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Development of Intercommunity Interaction and Exchange Networks 1
Chapter 2. The Western Great Lakes 12
Chapter 3. Distribution of Resources and Populations 32
Chapter 4. The Development of Late Archaic Regional Systems 49
Chapter 5. Material Symbols and Social Effects of Exchange 69
Chapter 6. Copper Acquisition and Production at the Duck Lake Site and its Implications for Systems of Regional Exchange 87
Chapter 7. Tracing Exchange and Interaction 109
Chapter 8. Summary and Conclusions 127
Appendix I. Overview of Sites Used in this Study 133
Appendix 2. Site and Population Data for the Western Great Lakes 143
Appendix 3. Riverside Catalog (Features Only) 146
Appendix 4. Reigh Site Catalog 153
Appendix 5. Duck Lake Catalog 155
Appendix 6. Burnt Rollways Site Lithic Tool Catalog 179
Appendix 7. Copper Trace Element Data 182
References Cited 206