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Ancient human groups in the Eastern Woodlands of North America were long viewed as homogeneous and stable hunter-gatherers, changing little until the late prehistoric period when Mesoamerican influences were thought to have stimulated important economic and social developments. The authors in this volume offer new, contrary evidence to dispute this earlier assumption, and their studies demonstrate the vigor and complexity of prehistoric peoples in the North American Midwest and Midsouth. These peoples gathered at favored places along midcontinental streams to harvest mussels and other

Kitchen-middens --- Caves --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Indians of North America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Caverns --- Grottoes --- Rock shelters --- Rockshelters --- Landforms --- Speleology --- Middens, Kitchen --- Sambaquis --- Shell heaps --- Shell middens --- Shell mounds --- Animal remains (Archaeology) --- Terremare --- Congresses. --- Surveying --- Antiquities --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Watson, Patty Jo, --- Mammoth Cave National Park (Ky.) --- Big Bend Sites (Ky.) --- Kentucky