European metals in native hands [electronic resource] : rethinking the dynamics of technological change, 1640-1683 / Kathleen L. Ehrhardt.
Publication details: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2005.Description: xiv, 253 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 0817314407 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0817351469 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Illinois Indians -- First contact with Europeans
- Illinois Indians -- Industries
- Illinois Indians -- Commerce
- Imports -- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- 17th century
- Exports -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
- Indian copperwork -- Mississippi River Valley
- Copper implements -- Europe -- History
- Technological innovations -- Mississippi River Valley
- Mississippi River Valley -- History -- To 1803
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- E99.I2 E47 2005eb
eBooks
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.
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