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Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain

Albert C. Goodyear,Christopher R. Moore

Author : Albert C. Goodyear,Christopher R. Moore
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683403012

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Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain by Albert C. Goodyear,Christopher R. Moore Pdf

Bringing together major archaeological research projects from Virginia to Alabama, this volume explores the rich prehistory of the Southeastern Coastal Plain. Contributors consider how the region’s warm weather, abundant water, and geography have long been optimal for the habitation of people beginning 50,000 years ago. They highlight demographic changes and cultural connections across this wide span of time and space. New data are provided here for many sites, including evidence for human settlement before the Clovis period at the famous Topper site in South Carolina. Contributors track the progression of sea level rise that gradually submerged shorelines and landscapes, and they discuss the possibility of a comet collision that triggered the Younger Dryas cold reversion and contributed to the extinction of Pleistocene megafauna like mastodons and mammoths. Essays also examine the various stone materials used by prehistoric foragers, the location of chert quarries, and the details stone tools reveal about social interaction and mobility. This volume synthesizes more than fifty years of research and addresses many of today’s controversial questions in the archaeology of the early Southeast, such as the sudden demise of the Clovis technoculture and the recognition of the mysterious "Middle Paleoindian" period. Contributors: Robert J. Austin | Mark J. Brooks |Christopher R. Moore | I. Randolph Daniel, Jr. | Joseph E. Wilkinson | Joseph Schuldenrein | Allen West | David K. Thulman | James K. Feathers | Terry E. Barbour II | Douglas Sain | Thomas A. Jennings | Albert C. Goodyear | Andrew H. Ivester | Dr. Malcolm A. LeCompte | Adam M. Burke | James S. Dunbar | Jon Endonino | Richard Estabrook | H. Blaine Ensor | A. Victor Adedeji | Douglas J. Kennett | Ashley M. Smallwood | Kara Bridgman Sweeney | Sam Upchurch | James P. Kennett | Wendy S. Wolbach | M. Scott Harris | Ted Bunch | David G. Anderson | C. Andrew Hemmings | James. M. Adovasio | Dr. Frank J. Vento | Dr. Anthony J. Vega

Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain

Albert C. Goodyear,Christopher R. Moore

Author : Albert C. Goodyear,Christopher R. Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 168340100X

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Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain by Albert C. Goodyear,Christopher R. Moore Pdf

This text is a collection of articles written by established researchers on the early prehistory of the Coastal Plain of the Southeastern US.

Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast

Alice P. Wright,Edward R. Henry

Author : Alice P. Wright,Edward R. Henry
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813065281

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Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast by Alice P. Wright,Edward R. Henry Pdf

Fourteen in-depth case studies incorporate empirical data with theoretical concepts such as ritual, aggregation, and place-making, highlighting the variability and common themes in the relationships between people, landscapes, and the built environment that characterize this period of North American native life in the Southeast.

The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age

D. Shane Miller,Ashley M. Smallwood,Jesse W. Tune

Author : D. Shane Miller,Ashley M. Smallwood,Jesse W. Tune
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817321284

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The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age by D. Shane Miller,Ashley M. Smallwood,Jesse W. Tune Pdf

"In 1996, the University of Alabama Press published a prodigious benchmark volume, The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast, edited by David G. Anderson and Kenneth E. Sassaman. It was the first to provide a state-by-state record of the Paleolithic and early Archaic eras (to approximately 8,000 years ago) in this region as well as models to interpret data excavated from those eras. It summarized what was known of the peoples who lived in the Southeast when ice sheets covered the northern part of the continent and mammals such as elephants, saber-toothed tigers, and ground sloths roamed the landscape. In the United States, the Southeast has some of most robust data on these eras. The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age is the updated, definitive synthesis of current archaeological research gleaned from an array of experts in the region. The volume is organized in three parts: state records, the regional perspective, and perspective and future directions. State-by-state chapter overviews of the eras are followed by chapters with regional coverage on lithics (point types), submerged archaeology, gatherers, megafauna, chipped-stone technology, and spatial demography. Chapters on ethical concerns regarding the use of data from avocational collections, insight from outside the Southeast, and considerations for future research round out the volume. The contributors address five questions: When did people first arrive? How did they get there? Who were they? How did they adapt to local resources and environmental change? Then what?"--

Paleoindian Societies of the Coastal Southeast

James S. Dunbar

Author : James S. Dunbar
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813065311

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Paleoindian Societies of the Coastal Southeast by James S. Dunbar Pdf

The late Pleistocene-early Holocene landscape hosted more species and greater numbers of them in the Southeast compared to any other region in North America at that time. Yet James Dunbar posits that a misguided reliance on using Old World origins to validate New World evidence has stalled research in this area. Rejecting the one-size-fits-all approach to Pleistocene archaeological sites, Dunbar analyzes five areas of contextual data—stratigraphy; chronology; paleoclimate; the combined consideration of habitat, resource availability, and subsistence; and artifacts and technology—to resolve unanswered questions surrounding the Paleoindian occupation of the Americas. Through his extensive research, Dunbar demonstrates a masterful understanding of the lifeways of the region’s people and the animals they hunted, showing that the geography and diversity of food sources was unique to that period. He suggests that the most important archaeological and paleontological resources in the Americas still remain undiscovered in Florida’s karst river basins. Building a case for the wealth of information yet to be unearthed, he provides a fresh perspective on the distant past and an original way of thinking about early life on the land mass we call Florida. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology

Robbie Ethridge,Eric E. Bowne

Author : Robbie Ethridge,Eric E. Bowne
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683401902

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The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology by Robbie Ethridge,Eric E. Bowne Pdf

This volume uses case studies to capture the recent emphasis on history in archaeological reconstructions of America’s deep past. Previously, archaeologists studying “prehistoric” America focused on long-term evolutionary change, imagining ancient societies like living organisms slowly adapting to environmental challenges. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how today’s researchers are incorporating a new awareness that the precolonial era was also shaped by people responding to historical trends and forces. Essays in this volume delve into sites across what is now the United States Southeast—the St. Johns River Valley, the Gulf Coast, Greater Cahokia, Fort Ancient, the southern Appalachians, and the Savannah River Valley. Prominent scholars of the region highlight the complex interplay of events, human decision-making, movements, and structural elements that combined to shape native societies. The research in this volume represents a profound shift in thinking about precolonial and colonial history and begins to erase the false divide between ancient and contemporary America. Contributors: Susan M. Alt | Robin Beck | Eric E. Bowne | Robert A. Cook | Robbie Ethridge | Jon Bernard Marcoux | Timothy R. Pauketat | Thomas J. Pluckhahn | Asa R. Randall | Christopher B. Rodning | Kenneth E. Sassaman | Lynne P. Sullivan | Victor D. Thompson | Neill J. Wallis | John E. Worth A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Time, Typology, and Point Traditions in North Carolina Archaeology

I. Randolph Daniel

Author : I. Randolph Daniel
Publisher : University Alabama Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817320867

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Time, Typology, and Point Traditions in North Carolina Archaeology by I. Randolph Daniel Pdf

A reconsideration of the seminal projectile point typology In the 1964 landmark publication The Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedmont, Joffre Coe established a projectile point typology and chronology that, for the first time, allowed archaeologists to identify the relative age of a site or site deposit based on the point types recovered there. Consistent with the cultural-historical paradigm of the day, the “Coe axiom” stipulated that only one point type was produced at one moment in time in a particular location. Moreover, Coe identified periods of “cultural continuity” and “discontinuity” in the chronology based on perceived similarities and differences in point styles through time. In Time, Typology, and Point Traditions in North Carolina Archaeology: Formative Cultures Reconsidered, I. Randolph Daniel Jr. reevaluates the Coe typology and sequence, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses. Daniel reviews the history of the projectile point type concept in the Southeast and revisits both Coe’s axiom and his notions regarding cultural continuity and change based on point types. In addition, Daniel updates Coe’s typology by clarifying or revising existing types and including types unrecognized in Coe’s monograph. Daniel also adopts a practice-centered approach to interpreting types and organizes them into several technological traditions that trace ancestral- descendent communities of practice that relate to our current understanding of North Carolina prehistory. Appealing to professional and avocational archaeologists, Daniel provides ample illustrations of points in the book as well as color versions on a dedicated website. Daniel dedicates a final chapter to a discussion of the ethical issues related to professional archaeologists using private artifact collections. He calls for greater collaboration between professional and avocational communities, noting the scientific value of some private collections.

New Directions in the Search for the First Floridians

David K. Thulman,Ervan G. Garrison

Author : David K. Thulman,Ervan G. Garrison
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683400806

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New Directions in the Search for the First Floridians by David K. Thulman,Ervan G. Garrison Pdf

Presenting the most current research and thinking on prehistoric archaeology in the Southeast, this volume reexamines some of Florida’s most important Paleoindian sites and discusses emerging technologies and methods that are necessary knowledge for archaeologists working in the region today. Using new analytical methods, contributors explore fresh perspectives on sites including Old Vero, Guest Mammoth, Page-Ladson, and Ray Hole Spring. They discuss the role of hydrology—rivers, springs, and coastal plain drainages—in the history of Florida’s earliest inhabitants. They address both the research challenges and the unique preservation capacity of the state’s many underwater sites, suggesting solutions for analyzing corroded lithic artifacts and submerged midden deposits. Looking towards future research, archaeologists discuss strategies for finding additional pre-Clovis and Clovis-era sites offshore on the southeastern continental shelf. The search is important, these essays show, because Florida’s prehistoric sites hold critical data for the debate over the nature and timing of the first human colonization of the Western Hemisphere.

Submerged Prehistory in the Americas

John M. O’Shea

Author : John M. O’Shea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000871333

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Submerged Prehistory in the Americas by John M. O’Shea Pdf

This book presents an overview of the exciting new developments in underwater research in North America, ranging from new approaches for discovering submerged sites to an assessment of how these findings challenge the understanding of the North American past. Archaeological sites preserved on the world’s continental shelves are relevant to a wide range of major research questions and their importance increases with the heightened awareness of climate change and rising modern sea levels. Once thought lost forever, these sites survive underwater, preserved from the ravages of modern farming and development. To investigate the submerged landscapes, archaeologists use many of the same technologies developed for discovery of shipwrecks but, couple them with anthropological and environmental models to identify and study the way of life of people residing in these ancient lands. In this book, leading figures associated with submerged site exploration share an emphasis on the conduct and results of underwater research. It will be a fascinating read for advanced students of Archaeology, History and Environmental Studies. This volume was originally published as a special issue of The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology.

Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States

Edmond A. Boudreaux III,Maureen Meyers,Jay K. Johnson

Author : Edmond A. Boudreaux III,Maureen Meyers,Jay K. Johnson
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683401360

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Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States by Edmond A. Boudreaux III,Maureen Meyers,Jay K. Johnson Pdf

The years AD 1500–1700 were a time of dramatic change for the indigenous inhabitants of southeastern North America, yet Native histories during this era have been difficult to reconstruct due to a scarcity of written records before the eighteenth century. Using archaeology to enhance our knowledge of the period, Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States presents new research on the ways Native societies responded to early contact with Europeans. Featuring sites from Kentucky to Mississippi to Florida, these case studies investigate how indigenous groups were affected by the expeditions of explorers such as Hernando de Soto, Pánfilo de Narváez, and Juan Pardo. Contributors re-create the social geography of the Southeast during this time, trace the ways Native institutions changed as a result of colonial encounters, and emphasize the agency of indigenous populations in situations of contact. They demonstrate the importance of understanding the economic, political, and social variability that existed between Native and European groups. Bridging the gap between historical records and material artifacts, this volume answers many questions and opens up further avenues for exploring these transformative centuries, pushing the field of early contact studies in new theoretical and methodological directions. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

New Histories of Village Life at Crystal River

Thomas J. Pluckhahn,Victor D. Thompson

Author : Thomas J. Pluckhahn,Victor D. Thompson
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683400639

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New Histories of Village Life at Crystal River by Thomas J. Pluckhahn,Victor D. Thompson Pdf

This volume explores how native peoples of the Southeastern United States cooperated to form large and permanent early villages, using the site of Crystal River on Florida's Gulf Coast as a case study. Crystal River was once among the most celebrated sites of the Woodland period (ca. 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1000), consisting of ten mounds and large numbers of diverse artifacts from the Hopewell culture. But a lack of research using contemporary methods at this site and nearby Roberts Island limited a full understanding of what these sites could tell scholars. Thomas Pluckhahn and Victor Thompson reanalyze previous excavations and conduct new field investigations to tell the whole story of Crystal River from its beginnings as a ceremonial center, through its growth into a large village, to its decline at the turn of the first millennium while Roberts Island and other nearby areas thrived. Comparing this community to similar sites on the Gulf Coast and in other areas of the world, Pluckhahn and Thompson argue that Crystal River is an example of an "early village society." They illustrate that these early villages present important evidence in a larger debate regarding the role of competition versus cooperation in the development of human societies. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Bears

Heather A. Lapham,Gregory A. Waselkov

Author : Heather A. Lapham,Gregory A. Waselkov
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683401452

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Bears by Heather A. Lapham,Gregory A. Waselkov Pdf

Although scholars have long recognized the mythic status of bears in Indigenous North American societies of the past, this is the first volume to synthesize the vast amount of archaeological and historical research on the topic. Bears charts the special relationship between the American black bear and humans in eastern Native American cultures across thousands of years. These essays draw on zooarchaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic evidence from nearly 300 archaeological sites from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico. Contributors explore the ways bears have been treated as something akin to another kind of human—in the words of anthropologist Irving Hallowell, “other than human persons”—in Algonquian, Cherokee, Iroquois, Meskwaki, Creek, and many other Native cultures. Case studies focus on bear imagery in Native art and artifacts; the religious and economic significance of bears and bear products such as meat, fat, oil, and pelts; bears in Native worldviews, kinship systems, and cosmologies; and the use of bears as commodities in transatlantic trade. The case studies in Bears demonstrate that bears were not only a source of food, but were also religious, economic, and political icons within Indigenous cultures. This volume convincingly portrays the black bear as one of the most socially significant species in Native eastern North America. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean

Lynsey A. Bates,John M. Chenoweth,James A. Delle

Author : Lynsey A. Bates,John M. Chenoweth,James A. Delle
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683400714

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Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean by Lynsey A. Bates,John M. Chenoweth,James A. Delle Pdf

Caribbean plantations and the forces that shaped them--slavery, sugar, capitalism, and the tropical, sometimes deadly environment--have been studied extensively. This volume brings together alternate stories of sites that fall outside the large cash-crop estates. Employing innovative research tools and integrating data from Dominica, St. Lucia, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Barbados, Nevis, Montserrat, and the British Virgin Islands, the contributors investigate the oft-overlooked interstitial spaces where enslaved Africans sought to maintain their own identities inside and outside the fixed borders of colonialism. Despite grueling work regimes and social and economic restrictions, people held in bondage carved out places of their own at the margins of slavery's reach. These essays reveal a complex world within and between sprawling plantations--a world of caves, gullies, provision grounds, field houses, fields, and the areas beyond them, where the enslaved networked, interacted, and exchanged goods and information. The volume also explores the lives of poor whites, Afro-descendant members of military garrisons, and free people of color, demonstrating that binary models of black slaves and white planters do not fully encompass the diversity of Caribbean identities before and after emancipation. Together, the analyses of marginal spaces and postemancipation communities provide a more nuanced understanding of the experiences of those who lived in the historic Caribbean, and who created, nurtured, and ultimately cut the roots of empire. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

En Bas Saline

Kathleen Deagan

Author : Kathleen Deagan
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683403593

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En Bas Saline by Kathleen Deagan Pdf

Life in an Indigenous town during an understudied era of Haitian history This book details the Indigenous Taíno occupation at En Bas Saline in Hispaniola between AD 1250 and 1520, showing how the community coped with the dramatic changes imposed by Spanish contact. En Bas Saline is the largest late precontact Taíno town recorded in what is now Haiti; the only one that has been extensively excavated and analyzed; and one of few with archaeologically documented occupation both before and after the arrival of Columbus in 1492. It is thought to be the site of La Navidad, Columbus’s first settlement, where the cacique Guacanagarí offered refuge and shelter after the sinking of the Santa María. Kathleen Deagan provides an intrasite and spatial analysis of En Bas Saline by focusing on households, foodways, ceramics, and crafts and offers insights into social organization and chiefly power in this political center through domestic and ornamental material culture. Postcontact changes are seen in patterns of gendered behavior, as well as in the power base of the caciques, challenging the traditional assumption that Taíno society was devastatingly disrupted almost immediately after contact. En Bas Saline is the only archaeological account of the consequences of contact from the perspective of the Taíno peoples’ lived experience. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Falls of the Ohio River

David Pollack,Anne Tobbe Bader,Justin N. Carlson

Author : David Pollack,Anne Tobbe Bader,Justin N. Carlson
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683402381

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Falls of the Ohio River by David Pollack,Anne Tobbe Bader,Justin N. Carlson Pdf

Falls of the Ohio River presents current archaeological research on an important landscape feature: a series of low, cascading rapids along the Ohio River on the border of Kentucky and Indiana. Using the perspective of historical ecology and synthesizing data from recent excavations, contributors to this volume demonstrate how humans and the environment mutually affected each other in the area for the past 12,000 years. These essays show how the Falls region was an attractive place to live due to its diverse ecological zones and its abundance of high-quality chert. In chronological studies ranging from the Early Archaic to the Late Mississippian periods, contributors portray the rapids as at times a boundary between Native American groups living upstream and downstream and at other times a hub where cultures converged and blended into a distinct local identity. The essays analyze and track changes in stone tool styles, mortuary traditions, settlement patterns, plant consumption, and ceramic production. Together, the chapters in this volume illustrate that the Falls of the Ohio was a focal point on the human landscape throughout the Holocene era. Providing a foundation for future work in this location, they show how the region’s geography and ecology shaped the ways humans organized themselves within it and how in turn these groups impacted the area through their changing social, economic, and political circumstances. Contributors: Anne Tobbe Bader | Rick Burdin | Justin N. Carlson | Richard W. Jefferies | Michael French | Robert G. McCullough | Greg J. Maggard | Stephen T. Mocas | Cheryl Ann Munson | David Pollack | Jack Rossen | Christopher W Schmidt| Claiborne Daniel | Duane B. Simpson | C. Russell, Stafford | Gary E. Stinchcomb | Jocelyn C. Turner A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Early Human Life On The Southeastern Coastal Plain

Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain by Albert C. Goodyear,Christopher R. Moore Pdf

Early Human Life on the Southeastern Coastal Plain by Albert C. Goodyear,Christopher R. Moore Pdf

Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast by Alice P. Wright,Edward R. Henry Pdf

The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age by D. Shane Miller,Ashley M. Smallwood,Jesse W. Tune Pdf

Paleoindian Societies of the Coastal Southeast by James S. Dunbar Pdf

The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology by Robbie Ethridge,Eric E. Bowne Pdf

Time, Typology, and Point Traditions in North Carolina Archaeology by I. Randolph Daniel Pdf

New Directions in the Search for the First Floridians by David K. Thulman,Ervan G. Garrison Pdf

Submerged Prehistory in the Americas by John M. O’Shea Pdf

Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States by Edmond A. Boudreaux III,Maureen Meyers,Jay K. Johnson Pdf

New Histories of Village Life at Crystal River by Thomas J. Pluckhahn,Victor D. Thompson Pdf

Bears by Heather A. Lapham,Gregory A. Waselkov Pdf

Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean by Lynsey A. Bates,John M. Chenoweth,James A. Delle Pdf

En Bas Saline by Kathleen Deagan Pdf

Falls of the Ohio River by David Pollack,Anne Tobbe Bader,Justin N. Carlson Pdf

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