Of Caves and Shell Mounds

Contents

Contents Figures and Tables ix Preface xi Kenneth C. Carstens Acknowledgments xvii 1. Introduction 1 Cheryl Ann Munson 2.. Toward Building a Culture History of the Mammoth Cave Area 5 Kenneth C. Carstens 3. Site Distribution Modeling for Mammoth Cave National Park 12 Guy Prentice 4. Prehistoric Mining in the Mammoth Cave System 33 Kenneth B. Tankersley 5. Prehistoric Expressions from the Central Kentucky Karst 40 Philip J. DiBlasi 6. Radiocarbon Dates from Salts and Mammoth Caves 48 Mary C. Kennedy 7. Managing Kentucky's Caves 82 Jan Marie Hemberger 8. Botanizing along Green River 88 Gail E. Wagner 9. Lithic Materials from the Read Shell Mound: A Reanalysis of a Works Progress Administration Collection 94 Christine K. Hensley 10. Shell Mound Bioarchaeology 107 Valerie A. Haskins and Nicholas P. Herrmann 11. Health and Disease in the Green River Archaic 119 Mary Lucas Powell 12.. Research Problems with Shells from Green River Shell Matrix Sites 132 Cheryl Claassen vii viii I Contents 13. Riverine Adaptation in the Midsouth David H. Dye 14. Of Caves and Shell Mounds in West-Central Kentucky Patty 10 Watson References Contributors Index 159 165 199 203 ...