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An Archaeology of the Red River of the North offers an expansive survey of the indigenous cultures and peoples in the region of the Red River from the recession of Lake Agassiz around 9000 years ago to the intrusion of the Europeans. Beginning with an overview of the practice of regional archaeology and a justification for its pursuit, Michael Michlovic uses a traditional culture-historical sequence as a framework to incorporate archaeological studies from the late nineteenth century to the present time. Relevant research in fields such as ethnohistory, ethnography, radiometric dating, paleoecology, and geomorphology are used throughout the presentation. Dozens of individual sites and survey projects are summarized and take their place in an overview of the characteristic features of past times, from the earliest hunting and gathering cultures to later farming societies.
Michael Michlovic is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Minnesota State University Moorhead, where he taught from 1975 to 2015. His field studies focused on the Red and Sheyenne River Valleys of northwestern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. He served previously as president of the Council for Minnesota Archaeology, and as a member of the Minnesota state review board for the National Register of Historic Places. He is a past editor of The Minnesota Archaeologist, and currently is on the board of the Minnesota Archaeological Society. He is co-author with G.R. Holley of the The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota volume, Archaeological Cultures of the Sheyenne Bend.
ISBN
978-1-966360-05-6
Publication Date
2025
Publisher
The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota
City
Grand Forks, ND
Recommended Citation
Michlovic, Michael G., "An Archaeology of the Red River of the North" (2025). Digital Press Books. 33.
https://commons.und.edu/press-books/33
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