European metals in native hands rethinking the dynamics of technological change, 1640-1683 / [electronic resource] :
Kathleen L. Ehrhardt.
- Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2005.
- xiv, 253 p. : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-234) and index.
Native technologies, European contact, and the processes and meanings of material change -- Setting aside the "standard view" : revealing "style" and change in technological systems -- Recovering Illinois copper-base metalworking style : the analytical program -- Indigenous copper working in the midcontinent : situating Illinois copper-base metal use in late protohistory -- Lost sheep-- in the jaws of the wolf : the mid-seventeenth-century Illinois in ethnohistorical and archaeological perspective -- From kettle sheet to ornament : artifact forms, production, and use -- Finding "style" beneath the surface : artifact composition and manufacturing history -- Illinois metalworking style in contexts of social action and technological change.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Illinois Indians--First contact with Europeans. Illinois Indians--Industries. Illinois Indians--Commerce. Imports--History--Mississippi River Valley--17th century. Exports--History--Europe--17th century. Indian copperwork--Mississippi River Valley. Copper implements--History.--Europe Technological innovations--Mississippi River Valley.