Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Environmental and Cultural History of the Northern Great Lakes
3. Cuisine and Pottery Technology in the Northern Great Lakes
4. Pottery and Cuisine: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
5. Pottery Taxonomy, Chronology, and Occupational History of the Cloudman Site
6. Pottery Function
7. Diet and Cuisine at the Cloudman Site
8. Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Accounts of Diet and Cooking
9. Culinary and Technological Tradition and Change at the Cloudman Site

About the Author

Susan M. Kooiman is assistant professor of anthropology at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Reviews

"The northern Great Lakes and the region north of it clearly experienced a long history of occupation by various groups of Indigenous peoples over several millennia. Kooiman debates the possibility that the selection of food was connected to the identity of a specific group of occupants. Her tactic of taking 'an integrated theoretical framework' structuring specific methodological and analytical techniques in a specific sequence is to be applauded." —H-Environment "The issue of subsistence practices and how they change through time has dominated the literature of the Northern Great Lakes region for generations. Kooiman's book sheds new light on these age-old questions. By focusing on pottery function and use-alteration analysis she provides a great deal of clarification on ancient cuisine as it changed through time." —James Skibo, author of Understanding Pottery Function "Kooiman provides a well-articulated multidimensional approach to studying pottery in the northern Great Lakes." —Indiana Magazine of History