Encyclopedia of Prehistory

1. Harder

   • Peter N. Peregrine

   Pages 213-214

2. High Plains Late Prehistoric

   • Peter N. Peregrine

   Pages 215-216

3. Hopewell

   • Peter N. Peregrine

   Pages 217-220

4. Hotchkiss

   • Peter N. Peregrine

   Pages 221-222

5. Late Anasazi

   • Michael Adler

   Pages 223-240

6. Late Desert Archaic

   • Peter N. Peregrine

   Pages 241-242

7. Late Eastern Archaic

   • Kenneth E. Sassaman

   Pages 243-247

8. Late Eastern Woodland

   • George Christiansen

   Pages 248-268

9. Late High Plains Archaic

   • Mary Lou Larson

   Pages 269-271

10. Late Hohokam

    • David Doyel

    Pages 278-286

11. Late Mogollon

    • J. Jefferson Reid

    Pages 287-290

12. Late Paleoindian

    • Peter N. Peregrine

    Pages 291-292

13. Late Sierra Nevada

    • Joanne Mack

    Pages 293-296

14. Late Southern California

    • John R. Johnson, Sarah Berry

    Pages 297-305

15. Middle Desert Archaic

    • W. H. Wills

    Pages 306-317

16. Middle Eastern Archaic

    • Kenneth E. Sassaman

    Pages 318-321

17. Middle Eastern Woodland

    • Jay K. Johnson

    Pages 322-334

18. Mississippian

    • Peter Peregrine

    Pages 335-338

19. Northeast Late Woodland

    • Dean Snow

    Pages 339-357

20. Northeast Middle Woodland

    • David Smith

    Pages 358-376

The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents temporal dimension. Major traditions are an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth­ covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory of humankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries, but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world's and kinship ties play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and time periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con­ The Encyclopedia is organized accord­ texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties are central to defining ethno­ is defined as a group of populations sharing logical cultures.

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