James L Phillips, James A Brown

"This is a collection of 15 well written articles on the Archaic Indians of the Midwest. The text is easy to read and covers the classic sites, population, environment-ecology and artifacts of this interesting age." Dental Anthropology Newsletter, 1987

• 1: Introduction; 2: Summary; 3: The Nebo Hill Phase: Late Archaic Prehistory in the Lower Missouri Valley; 4: Archaic Period Research in the Western Ozark Highland, Missouri; 5: An Archaic Projectile Point Sequence from the Southern Prairie Peninsula; 6: Archaic Adaptations to the Illinois Prairie; 7: Archaic Mortuary Sites in the Central Mississippi Drainage; 8: Napoleon Hollow and Koster Site Stratigraphy; 9: What Happened in the Middle Archaic? Introduction to an Ecological Approach to Koster Site Archaeology; 10: The Labras Lake Site and the Paleogeographic Setting of the Late Archaic in the American Bottom; 11: A Settlement-Subsistence Model of the Terminal Late Archaic Adaptation in the American Bottom, Illinois; 12: Settlement and Subsistence at the Go-Kart North Site; 13: Modoc Rock Shelter Revisited; 14: Dimensions of Middle Archaic Cultural Adaptation at the Black Earth Site, Saline County, Illinois; 15: The Shell Mound Archaic of Western Kentucky