Archaeological Salvage In The Walter F George Basin Of The Chattahoochee River In Alabama

Author : David DeJarnette
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817356446

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Archaeological Salvage in the Walter F. George Basin of the Chattahoochee River in Alabama by David DeJarnette Pdf

A viable cultural chronology of the Chattahoochee River Valley region from the earliest Paleoindian and Archaic foragers to the period of early European-Indian contact David L. DeJarnette, the founder of scientific archaeology in the state of Alabama, reports on archaeological surveys and excavations undertaken in the Chattahoochee River Valley between 1947 and 1962. The three contributors, Wesley R. Hurt, Edward B. Kurjack, and Fred Lamar Pearson Jr., each made signal contributions to the archaeology of the southeastern states. With their mentor, David L. DeJarnette, they worked out a viable cultural chronology of the region from the earliest Paleoindian and Archaic foragers to the period of early European-Indian contact. They excavated key sites, including the Woodland period Shorter Mound, the protohistoric Abercrombie village, and Spanish Fort Apalachicola, in addition to a number of important Creek Indian town sites of the eighteenth century. All are here, illustrated abundantly by site photographs, maps, and of course, the artifacts recovered from these remarkable investigations. Copublication with the Historic Chattahoochee Commission

Author : Vernon J. Knight,Tim S. Mistovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Alabama
ISBN : WISC:89058382417

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Walter F. George Lake by Vernon J. Knight,Tim S. Mistovich Pdf

Author : Robert A. Cook,Aaron R. Comstock
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030890827

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Following the Mississippian Spread by Robert A. Cook,Aaron R. Comstock Pdf

This book is the first to specifically trace the movement of Mississippian maize farmers throughout the US Midwest and Southeast. By providing a backdrop of shifting climatic conditions during the period, this volume also investigates the relationship between farmers and their environments. Detailed regional overviews of key locations in the Mississippi Valley, the Ohio Valley, and the peripheries of the Mississippian culture area reveal patterns and variation in the expression of Mississippian culture and interactions between migrants and local communities. Methodologically, the case studies highlight the strengths of integrating a variety of data sets to identify migration. The volume provides a broader case study of the links between climate change, migration, and the spread of agriculture that is relevant to archaeologists and anthropologists studying early agricultural societies throughout the world. Key patterns of adaptation to and mitigation of the effects of droughts, for example, provide a framework for understanding the options available to societies in the face of climate change afforded by the time-depth of an archaeological perspective.

Author : David J. Hally
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820334929

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Ocmulgee Archaeology, 1936-1986 by David J. Hally Pdf

From 1933 to 1941, Macon was the site of the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken in Georgia and one of the most significant archaeological projects to be initiated by the federal government during the depression. The project was administered by the National Park Service and funded at times by such government programs as the Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, and Civil Works Administration. At its peak in 1955, more than eight hundred laborers were employed in more than a dozen separate excavations of prehistoric mounds and villages. The best-known excavations were conducted at the Macon Plateau site, the area President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed as the Ocmulgee National Monument in 1936. Although a wealth of material was recovered from the site in the 1930s, little provision was made for analyzing and reporting it. Consequently, much information is still unpublished. The sixteen essays in this volume were presented at a symposium to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Ocmulgee National Monument. The symposium provided archaeologists with an opportunity to update the work begun a half-century before and to bring it into the larger context of southeastern history and general advances in archaeological research and methodology. Among the topics discussed are platform mounds, settlement patterns, agronomic practices, earth lodges, human skeletal remains, Macon Plateau culture origins, relations of site inhabitants with other aboriginal societies and Europeans, and the challenges of administering excavations and park development.

Author : H. Thomas Foster II
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000545258

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Apalachicola by H. Thomas Foster II Pdf

This book is a synthesis of research spanning archaeology, geology, geography, history, ecology, and ethnography. It follows the history of the Apalachicola people who contributed to the culture that was later called the Creek Indians in the Southeastern United States. Apalachicola is the origin story of the Creek Indians and how they adapted to a changing environment and shows that specific institutions, subsistence strategies, and social organizations developed as a risk management strategy and a form of resilience. It is unique in its comprehensive and long-term study of a community. It identifies and demonstrates a new way of understanding the development of political institutions and regime change. Incorporating the role of social groups that are under discussed by archaeological studies, the book offers a new and novel understanding of the development of complex societies in the Southeastern United States. It also includes a holistic view of the entire social and economic organizations rather than just an aspect of the economy or politics and shows how this culture developed a society that dealt with an unpredictable environment by distributing risks, knowledge, and authority throughout the society. The social and political organization of these Native American peoples was adapted to a particular environment that was altered when Europeans immigrated to the Americas. The book is relevant to scholars interested in Southeastern North American archaeology and history, ecological resilience, political change, colonialism, gender studies, ecology, and more.

Author : Benjamin Hawkins
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780817350406

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The Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796–1810 by Benjamin Hawkins Pdf

The Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins provides a comprehensive collection of the most important sources on the late historic Creek Indians and their environment.

Author : Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817309923

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The Northwest Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore by Clarence Bloomfield Moore Pdf

This comprehensive compilation of Moore's archaeological reports on northwest Florida and southern Alabama and Georgia presents the earliest documented investigations of this region.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0738544280

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Lower Chattahoochee River by Anonim Pdf

The Chattahoochee River has dramatically shaped the heritage of the lower Chattahoochee Valley of east and southeast Alabama and west and southwest Georgia. As the region's dominant geographic feature, the Chattahoochee has served residents of the area as an engine for commerce and as an important transportation route for centuries. It has also been a natural and recreational resource, as well as an inspiration for creativity. From the stream's role as one of the South's busiest trade routes to the dynamic array of water-powered industry it made possible, the river has been at the very center of the forces that have shaped the unique character of the area. A vital part of the community's past, present, and future, it binds the Chattahoochee Valley together as a distinctive region. Through a variety of images, including historic photographs, postcards, and artwork, this book illustrates the importance of the Chattahoochee River to the region it has helped sustain.

Author : Jason Baird Jackson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803245419

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Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era by Jason Baird Jackson Pdf

In Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era, folklorist and anthropologist Jason Baird Jackson and nine scholars of Yuchi (Euchee) Indian culture and history offer a revisionist and in-depth portrait of Yuchi community and society. This first interdisciplinary history of the Yuchi people corrects the historical record, which often submerges the Yuchi within the Creek Confederacy instead of acknowledging the Yuchi as a separate tribe. By looking at the oral, historical, ethnographic, linguistic, and archaeological record, contributors illuminate Yuchi political circumstances and cultural identity. Focusing on the pre-Removal era, the volume shows that from the entrada of Hernando de Soto into the American South in 1541 to the Yuchis’ internal migrations throughout the hinterlands of the South and their entanglement with the Creeks to the maintenance of community and identity today, the Yuchis have persisted as a distinct people. This volume provides a voice to an indigenous nation that previous generations of scholars have misidentified or erroneously assumed to be a simple constituent of the Creek Nation. In doing so, it offers a fuller picture of Yuchi social realities since the arrival of Europeans and other non-natives in their Southern homelands.

Author : Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817310196

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The Southern and Central Alabama Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore by Clarence Bloomfield Moore Pdf

"The works by Clarence B. Moore reproduced in this volume were published originally in 1899, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1907, and 1918.".

Author : Fred Brown,Sherri M. L. Smith,Richard Stenger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1580720005

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The Riverkeeper's Guide to the Chattahoochee by Fred Brown,Sherri M. L. Smith,Richard Stenger Pdf

The Chattahoochee is a prototypical American river-from its headwaters in the Blue Ridge Mountains to where it flows into Apalachicola Bay, one of the most productive estuaries in North America. This entertaining, fact-filled guide covers the Chattahoochee's entire 500 mile course and 8,000 square mile watershed. The guide divides the river into ten sections, each of which includes a brief natural history and information on: camping, hiking, fishing, boating, and other recreational pursuits bodies of water that feed into the river cities and towns with river frontage manmade structures such as bridges, dams, and historic ruins environmental threats and preservation efforts Entertaining sidebars throughout highlight the people, history, culture, wildlife, and geography of the entire river valley. Understand the "Hooch," say those dedicated to its conservation, and you will know more about all of our country's waterways. This guide is the place to begin.

Author : Thomas Foster
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780817353650

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Archaeology of the Lower Muskogee Creek Indians, 1715-1836 by Thomas Foster Pdf

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Author : John H. Blitz,Karl G. Lorenz
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817352776

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The Chattahoochee Chiefdoms by John H. Blitz,Karl G. Lorenz Pdf

An overview and model of complex society in the prehistoric Southeast Along the banks of the lower Chattahoochee River, the remains of ancient settlements are abundant, including archaeological sites produced by Native Americans between 900 and 350 years ago, and marked by the presence of large earthen mounds. Like similar monuments elsewhere in the Southeastern United States, the lower Chatta-hoochee River mounds have long attracted the attention of travelers, antiquarians, and archaeologists. As objects from the mounds were unearthed, occasionally illustrated and discussed in print, attention became focused on the aesthetic qualities of the artifacts, the origins of the remains, and the possible relationship to the Creek Indians. Beginning in the 20th century, new concerns emerged as the developing science of archaeology was introduced to the region. As many of the sites became threatened or destroyed by reservoir construction, trained archaeologists initiated extensive excavations of the mounds. Although classification of artifacts and sites into a chronological progression of cultures was the main objective of this effort, a second concern, sometimes more latent than manifest, was the reconstruction of a past way of life. Archaeologists hoped to achieve a better understanding of the sociopolitical organization of the peoples who built the mounds and of how those organizations changed through time. Contemporary archaeologists, while in agreement on many aspects of the ancient cultures, debate the causes, forms, and degrees of sociopolitical complexity in the ancient Southeast. Do the mounds mark the capitals of political territories? If so, what was the scale and scope of these ancient “provinces”? What manner of society constructed the mound settlements? What was the sociopolitical organization of these long-dead populations? How can archaeologists answer such queries with the mute and sometimes ordinary materials with which they work: pottery, stone tools, organic residues, and the strata of remnant settlements, buildings, and mounds?

Author : Nancy Marie White
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817361310

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Apalachicola Valley Archaeology, Volume 2 by Nancy Marie White Pdf

Synthesizes the archaeology of the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia, from 1,300 years ago to recent times

Author : H. Thomas Foster, II,Lisa M. Paciulli
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781611175875

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Viewing the Future in the Past by H. Thomas Foster, II,Lisa M. Paciulli Pdf

Viewing the Future in the Past is a collection of essays that represents a wide range of authors, loci, and subjects that together demonstrate the value and necessity of looking at environmental problems as a long-term process that involves humans as a causal factor. Editors H. Thomas Foster, II, Lisa M. Paciulli, and David J. Goldstein argue that it is increasingly apparent to environmental and earth sciences experts that humans have had a profound effect on the physical, climatological, and biological earth. Consequently, they suggest that understanding any aspect of the earth within the last ten thousand years means understanding the density and activities of Homo sapiens. The essays reveal the ways in which archaeologists and anthropologists have devised methodological and theoretical tools and applied them to pre-Columbian societies in the New World and ancient sites in the Middle East. Some of the authors demonstrate how these tools can be useful in examining modern societies. The contributors provide evidence that past and present ecosystems, economies, and landscapes must be understood through the study of human activity over millennia and across the globe.