The archaeology of caves in Ireland

M Dowd - 2015 - torrossa.com
“This book provides a synthesis of what we currently know about how caves were used and
perceived by communities spanning the 10,000 years of human occupation of Ireland, from …

Early Woodland ritual use of caves in eastern North America

GM Crothers - American Antiquity, 2012 - cambridge.org
Mammoth and Salts caves in west-central Kentucky were Intensively mined for gypsum and
other sulfate minerals during the Early Woodland period (ca. 1000–200 BC). I propose that …

Faunal remains from an archaic period cave in the Southeastern United States

TM Peres, A Deter-Wolf, J Keasler, SC Hodge - Journal of Archaeological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Ancient Native American use of caves in the Eastern Woodlands occurred
throughout the entire span of regional prehistory; however, the ways that these natural …

Distribution and context of worked crystalline artifacts from the middle Cumberland region of Tennessee

MC Moore, KE Smith, A Deter-Wolf… - Southeastern …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Antiquarian and modern explorations within the Middle Cumberland region of Tennessee
have uncovered vast quantities of ceramic, stone, bone, and shell artifacts. Objects made …

Forty years' pursuit of human prehistory in the world underground

PJ Watson - Sacred Darkness: A Global Perspective on the …, 2012 - books.google.com
In Eastern North America, systematic archaeology in big caves with miles of dark zone
began during the 1960s. Research goals, research techniques, and interpretative …