Hunting for Hides: Deerskins, Status, and Cultural Change in the Protohistoric Appalachians. By Heather A. Lapham. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xiv], 184. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8173-5276-9; cloth, $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8173-1493-4.)
Heather A. Lapham's Hunting for Hides: Deerskins, Status, and Cultural Change in the Protohistoric Appalachians is an innovative, thorough examination of the transformative Late Woodland and Protohistoric peltry trade in Virginia's southern Ridge and Valley region. The volume is a well-structured elaboration of her 2002 University of Virginia dissertation. Lapham demonstrates in-depth knowledge of pertinent ...