MHAL - Retrieving Michigan's Buried Past: The Archaeology of the Great Lakes State

Cover of book: Retrieving Michigan's Buried Past

In 1999, the Cranbrook Institute of Science published Retrieving Michigan's Buried Past: The Archaeology of the Great Lakes State, edited by Dr. John R. Halsey, Michigan's state archaeologist.

The occasion of Michigan's 150th anniversary of statehood on January 26, 1987, provided the basis for numerous public celebrations of Michigan's past, present and future. Among the suggested commemorations was a new book on Michigan archaeology. Twelve years later, after an enormous amount of survey work and a significant number of additional excavations, Retrieving Michigan's Buried Past: The Archaeology of the Great Lakes State became a reality. Comprised of 13 chapters contributed by distinguished archaeologists, the book covers not only the full range of prehistoric occupations in the state, but also gives extensive coverage of the archaeology of Michigan from the time of first European exploration to the dawn of the 20th century.

Contents
Introduction	John R. Halsey
1. A Century of Great Lakes Levels Research: Finished or Just Beginning	Curtis E. Larsen
2. Michigan Late Pleistocene, Holocene, and Presettlement Vegetation and Climate	Ronald O. Kapp
3. The Paleo-Indians: Michigan's First People	Michael J. Shott and Henry T. Wright
4. The Early Archaic: Life after the Glaciers	Michael J. Shott
5. The Middle Archaic: Learning to Live in the Woodlands	William A. Lovis
6. The Late Archaic: Hunter-Gatherers in an Uncertain Environment	James A. Robertson, William A. Lovis, and John R. Halsey
7. The Early Woodland: Ceramics, Domesticated Plants, and Burial Mounds Foretell the Shape of the Future	Elizabeth B. Garland and Scott G. Beld
8. The Middle Woodland: A Golden Age of Mound Builders and Fishermen	Robert G. Kingsley, David S. Brose, and Michael J. Hambacher
9. The Late Woodland: Prehistory's Finale, History's Prelude	Janet G. Brashler, John R. Halsey, Margaret B. Holman, James J. Krakker, Susan R. Martin, David M. Stothers, and Richard L. Zurel
10. Upper Mississippian/Oneota: People on the Margins of Michigan and the Fringes of History	Paul W. McAllister, William M. Cremin, and John R. Halsey
11. Cultural Transformation: The Archaeology of Historic Indian Sites in Michigan, 1670-1940	Charles E. Cleland
12. From Fleur-de-Lis to Stars and Stripes: Euro-American Archaeology in Michigan	Donald P. Heldman, Arnold R. Pilling, Dean L. Anderson, and Mark C. Branstner
13. Forts, Shipwrecks, and Thomas Edison?: Late Period Archaeology on Land and Underwater	John R. Davis, C. Stephan Demeter, John G. Franzen, Gordon L. Grosscup, Bruce Hawkins, Kenneth E. Lewis, Patrick E. Martin, Terrance J. Martin, Kenneth R. Pott, Richard B. Stamps, and Nancy E. Wright
Bibliography, Index

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