The Riverton Culture: A Second Millenium Occupation in the Central Wabash Valley
by Howard D. Winters
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Illinois State Museum, 1969. Originals tiff wraps. Illustrated (b/w photographs throughout). Pages are clean (unmarked) but yellowed with age. Hinges are slightly creased but still secure. Inner text block tight and sound. Shelfwear (slight bumping to corners, moderate rubbing to extremities). Nice reading copy. This book deals with excavations in the Robeson Hills, Riverton, and Swan Island shell middens of the central Wabash Valley during the spring, summer, and fall of 1962 and the summer of 1963 at the Riverton Site. All three are closely related components within a hitherto unreported Archaic culture typified by a distinctive micro-tool industry in chert. The culture has been named the Riverton Culture after the site at which the micro-tool tradition was first noted in surface collections.. First Edition. Oversized Softcover. Good -/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Title
- The Riverton Culture: A Second Millenium Occupation in the Central Wabash Valley
- Author
- Howard D. Winters
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good -
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Illinois State Museum
- Date Published
- 1969
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12&
- Keywords
- Anthopology History Ancient Civilizations
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology; Ancient Civilizations;
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