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Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast
Edited by Kenneth E. Sassaman and David G. Anderson
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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.
Contents:
Section I. Mid-Holocene Environments
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.
Florida Museum of Natural History Ripley
P. Bullen Series
1996. 416 pp. 6 X 9.
10 b&w photographs, 79
drawings, tables,
maps,bibliography, index.
ISBN 0-8130-1434-4
Cloth, $60.00s
ISBN 0-8130-1855-2
Paper, $29.95
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"Sassaman and Anderson's volume is among the best of its kind. It is expertly edited and tightly organized, there is thematic consistency throughout, and virtually all of the illustrations are well-executed. While Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast deals specifically with the American Southeast, it will be indispensable to any researcher (including those in the Northeast) who wishes to place the archaeology of his or her region in a relevant comparative context."--
Northeast Anthropology
"With the publication of Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast, we see a regional and chronological variation in the Archaic that includes mound building, long-distance exchange, intergroup strife, and a better understanding of technology and subsistence practices. Quite simply, Sassaman and Anderson, along with the contributors to this volume, have succeeded in redefining the Archaic."--
Florida Anthropologist
From the foreword by Jerald T. Milanich:
"With this important volume, the editors serve notice that
old characterizations of the cultures of the Archaic period have
been buried under the back dirt of new excavations and new
interpretations. . . . It places the Archaic cultures squarely at
the forefront of archaeological theory."
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