The archaeology of rockshelters on Fountain Creek Maury County, Tennessee
Robert F. Entorf (Author), Walter E. Klippel (Degree supervisor), University of Tennessee, Knoxville Department of Anthropology (Degree granting institution)
The purpose of this study is to describe and compare 11 archaeological assemblages recovered from six rockshelters located along Fountain Creek, a major tributary of the Duck River in Middle Tennessee. A theoretical model of forager and hunter-gatherer subsistance-settlement organization provide a framework for the evaluation of the rockshelter assemblages. The analytical and comparative procedures indicate that (1) there are significant differences in the content of contemporaneous assemblages, and (2) there is a significant increase in assemblage variability and breadth of activities represented at the rockshelters through time. It is suggested that this patterning may reflect a gradual change in subsistence-settlement organization from more residentially mobile foraging systems to a more logistically orientated hunter-gatherer organization in the study area
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 1985
1985