Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America

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• I. Introduction.- 1 • Systematics of the Study of Prehistoric Regional Exchange in North America.- II. Eastern North America.- 2 • Evidence for Prehistoric Exchange on the Maritime Peninsula.- 3 • The Prehistoric Transportation of Goods in the St. Lawrence River Basin.- 4 • Late Archaic through Late Woodland Exchange in the Middle Atlantic Region.- 5 • Prehistoric Exchange in the Southeast.- 6 • Empirical Characterization of Exchange Systems in Lower Mississippi Valley Prehistory.- 7 • Prehistoric Exchange in the Lower Mississippi Valley.- 8 • Trade and Exchange in the Midwestern United States.- III. The North American West.- 9 • Prehistoric Plains Trade.- 10 • Prehistoric Trade and Exchange in the Interior Plateau of Northwestern North America.- 11 • Trade and Exchange in Prehistoric British Columbia.- 12 • Mosiac Patterning in Prehistoric California—Great Basin Exchange.- 13 • Prehistoric Exchange Systems in California.- IV. Conclusion.- 14 • Positioning Exchange in the Evolution of Human Society.