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The Laurel culture in Minnesotabook chapter 1973 • Stoltman, James B.
Initial Shield Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Stoltman describes the excavations and findings from several Laurel sites (mostly funerary mounds) in Minnesota. These sites had been excavated by Lloyd A. Wilford in 1933, 1939, 1940 and 1956. The Pearson Site was excavated by the author and others ...The Prairie Phaseessay 1986 • Stoltman, James B.
Eastern Early Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Stoltman describes another late Early Woodland phase, the Prairies phase, first described in the Prairie du Chien locality. Stoltman describes the ceramics associated with this phase, the settlement and subsistence patterns, and the dates. Only two r...Middle Woodland stage communities of southwestwestern Wisconsinessay 1979 • Stoltman, James B.
Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Stoltman reviews the Middle Woodland data from southwestern Wisconsin and is able to point out that in some areas there seems to be no earlier local development (no Early Woodland). This may indicate Hopewell people moved into the area from Illinois....Petrographic observations of selected sherds from Wind Mountainbook chapter 1996 • Stoltman, James B.
Mogollon • North America > Southwest and Basin
From the Wind Mountain site in New Mexico, twenty painted and unpainted sherds were selected for petrographic analysis. Thin sections of the sherds were then subjected to both qualitative and quantitative observation. Quantitative data were based upo...Cultural interaction within Swift Creek societyessay 1998 • Stoltman, James B. & Snow, Frankie
Eastern Middle Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
The goal of this study was to use petrographic analyses to evaluate the between-site distribution of designs to determine whether it was the pots or the paddles that had circulated between communities. Sixty-nine sherds from eleven sites were studied...Recent discoveries and some thoughts on early urbanization at Anyangessay 2013 • Jing, Zhichun et al.
Yellow River Bronze Age • Asia > East Asia
The authors present a brief discussion of some recent discoveries at the Middle to Late Shang cities of Huanbei and Yinxu (located the modern city of Anyang), and theorize about urbanization processes at Yinxu, home to the kings of the Late Shang. Br...