Data on the nature and location of archaeological and historical sites in the Root River Basin of southeastern Minnesota were compiled from records in the Archaeology Laboratory, University of Minnesota. The region lies within portions of Dodge, Fillmore, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, and Winona counties where the Root River and its tributaries cut through the so-called driftless area of Minnesota. No archaeological or historic sites are recorded for the portions of the Root River basin lying in Dodge, Mower and Winona Counties so that these counties do not appear in the following table. It should be noted that, while a few significant archaeological sites within the basin have been excavated and a number of sites have been recorded, no systematic and intensive archaeological or historical survey has been conducted in the basin. Based on the number of sites that are known, and being aware of the significant number of known sites in the adjacent and comparable areas of southwestern Wisconsin and northeastern Iowa, an intensive archaeological site survey would increase the site inventory many times over.

Traces the story of India's expansion that is woven into the culture of Southeast Asia.

From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s length from any organized state society For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states. In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of “internal colonialism.” This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott’s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.