Koster: Americans in Search of Their Prehistoric Past

Struever, Stuart; Holton, Felicia Antonelli

ISBN 10: 0385004060 / ISBN 13: 9780385004060

Published by Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1979

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0385004060I4N00

Synopsis:

Voted "one of the 100 best sci-tech books of the year" by Library Journal when first published, Koster: Americans in Search of Their Prehistoric Past is the extraordinarily well-told story of the long-term excavation of a deep Archaic site in the Lower Illinois Valley that pieces together a fascinating picture of the earliest known settlers in the Western Hemisphere. The Koster site in Kampsville, Illinois, is considered one of the most important archaeological treasures in North America. Hundreds of students, archaeologists, botanists, and geologists worked to explore the many layers of this remarkable settlement. From clues as small as pollen grains, mussel shells, and animal bone fragments unearthed at the Koster farm, they have been able to solve many intriguing mysteries about these earliest Americans--what they ate, how their tools were made and used, what diseases plagued them, and how they built their homes. Koster is a highly readable true-life adventure that offers clear, take-the-reader-along explanations of the thought processes involved in generating and testing hypotheses and inferences from available data.

From the Publisher: Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Fagan, Quest for the Past: Great Discoveries in Archaeology, Second Edition (ISBN 9780881337914); Kamp, Life in the Pueblo: Understanding the Past Through Archaeology (ISBN 9780881339642); and Kehoe-Pleger, Archaeology: A Concise Introduction (ISBN 9781577664505).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Koster: Americans in Search of Their ...
Publisher: Anchor Press/Doubleday
Publication Date: 1979
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket