Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast Contributor(s): Sassaman, Kenneth E. (Editor), Anderson, David G. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0813018552 ISBN-13: 9780813018553 Publisher: University Press of Florida OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1996 Annotation: This volume summarizes our archeological knowledge of natives who inhabited the American Southeast from 8,000 to 3,000 years ago and examines evidence of many of the native cultural expressions observed by early European explorers, including long-distance exchange, plant domestication, mound building, social ranking, and warfare. (Archaeology/Anthropology) |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies |
Dewey: 975.01 |
LCCN: 95045466 |
Lexile Measure: 1450 |
Series: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.68" W x 8.44" (1.33 lbs) 416 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From the foreword: This volume summarizes our archaeological knowledge of natives who inhabited the American Southeast from 8,000 to 3,000 years ago and examines evidence of many of the native cultural expressions observed by early European explorers, including long-distance exchange, plant domestication, mound building, social ranking, and warfare. Contents 1. Geoarchaeology and the Mid-Holocene Landscape History of the Greater Southeast, by Joseph Schuldenrein 2. Mid-Holocene Forest History of Florida and the Coastal Plain of Georgia and South Carolina, by William A. Watts, Eric C. Grimm, and T. C. Hussey Section II. Technology 3. Changing Strategies of Lithic Technological Organization, by Daniel S. Amick and Philip J. Carr 4. Technological Innovations in Economic and Social Contexts, by Kenneth E. Sassaman 5. Middle and Late Archaic Architecture, by Kenneth E. Sassaman and R. Jerald Ledbetter Section III. Subsistence and Health 6. The Paleoethnobotanical Record for the Mid-Holocene Southeast, by Kristen J. Gremillion 7. Mid-Holocene Faunal Exploitation in the Southeastern United States, by Bonnie W. Styles and Walter E. Klippel 8. Biocultural Inquiry into Archaic Period Populations of the Southeast: Trauma and Occupational Stress, by Maria O. Smith Section IV. Regional Settlement Variation 9. Approaches to Modeling Regional Settlement in the Archaic Period Southeast, by David G. Anderson 10. Southeastern Mid-Holocene Coastal Settlements, by Michael Russo 11. Accounting for Submerged Mid-Holocene Archaeological Sites in the Southeast: A Case Study from the Chesapeake Bay Estuary, Virginia, by Dennis B. Blanton Section V. Regional Integration and Organization 12. The Emergence of Long-Distance Exchange Networks in the Southeastern United States, by Richard W. Jefferies 13. A Consideration of the Social Organization of the Shell Mound Archaic, by Cheryl P. Claassen 14. Southeastern Archaic Mounds, by Michael Russo 15. Poverty Point and Greater Southeastern Prehistory: The Culture That Did Not Fit, by Jon L. Gibson Kenneth E. Sassaman is archaeologist with the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, and instructor in the Department of History and Anthropology at Augusta College, Augusta, Georgia. He is the author of Early Pottery in the Southeast: Tradition and Innovation in Cooking Technology. David G. Anderson is archaeologist with the Southeast Archaeological Center, National Park Service, Tallahassee, Florida. He is the author of The Savannah River Chiefdoms: Political Change in the Late Prehistoric Southeast. They are coeditors of The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast. |