Modeling Archaeological Site Burial in Southern Michigan.Modeling Archaeological Site Burial In Southern Michigan Southern Michigan is a region in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a region of rolling farmland and scattered urban centers. Southern Michigan is commonly considered to be the area west of the Southeast Michigan area and east of Battle Creek, consisting of G. William Monaghan & William A. Lovis Michigan State University Press Michigan State University Press, founded in 1947, is the scholarly publishing arm of Michigan State University. During the past six decades it has become a vital part of the institution's land-grant mission and is a catalyst for positive intellectual, social, and technological 1405 South Harrison Road, Suite 25, East Lansing, Michigan East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located directly east of Lansing, Michigan, the state's capital. Most of the city is within Ingham County, though a small portion lies in Clinton County. 48823-5245 0870137387 $35.95 msupress.msu.edu Modeling Archaeological Site Burial In Southern Michigan: A Geoarchaeological Synthesis is the collaborative work of G. William Monaghan (Associate Research Scientist, Glenn A. Black Laboratory for Archaeology, Indiana University) and William A. Lovis (Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Associate Director for Natural and Social Science Research and Curator of Anthropology, MSU Museum, Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. ) with contributions by Michael J. Hambacher in the chapter "Location and Description of Buried and Stratified stratified /strat·i·fied/ (strat´i-fid) formed or arranged in layers. strat·i·fied adj. Arranged in the form of layers or strata. Sites in Michigan: Geological and Cultural Controls for Site Burial and Stratification". This scholarly presentation of deep site geoarchaeology in Michigan provides an overarching survey of 13,000 years of Great Lakes geology and the impact of lake-level and climatic change on the archaeological record of human occupation with special attention to burial sites. This superbly presented work is organized into two main parts: "Geological and Archaeological Background" and "Site Burial Conceptual Models, GIS Predictive Framework, and Deep-Test Methods and Standards". Enhanced with maps, charts, references, and an exhaustive index, Modeling Archaeological Site Burial in Southern Michigan will prove to be of particular interest to students of upper midwest American archaeology, Native American studies Native American Studies is an academic discipline that studies the experience of people of Native American ancestry in America. Closely related to other Ethnic studies disciplines such as African American studies, Asian American Studies, and Latino/a Studies, Native American , geology, and Great Lakes studies. |
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