Revisiting Mckeithen Weeden Island

Author : Prudence M. Rice
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817361143

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Revisiting Mckeithen Weeden Island by Prudence M. Rice Pdf

Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theories Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island further illuminates an Indigenous Late Woodland (ca. AD 200-900) mound-and-village community in northern Florida that was first excavated in the late 1970s. Since then, some artifacts received additional analyses, and the topic of prechiefdom societies has been broadly reconsidered in anthropology and archaeology. These developments allow new perspectives on McKeithen's history and significance. Prudence M. Rice, a Mayanist who began her career at the University of Florida, revisits what is known about McKeithen and recontextualizes the 1970s excavations. Weeden Island and McKeithen are best known through mortuary mounds and mortuary ritual, mainly involving unusual pottery bird effigies. Rice discusses current theoretical trends in studies of ritual and belief systems and their relation to mound-building at McKeithen in early stages of developing societal complexity. Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island serves as a masterful example of an esteemed archaeologist advancing the field through rethought and updated interpretations of the site and its significance, primarily through its pottery. Rice's case study ultimately also fosters understanding of later Mississippian society and other civilizations around the world at this time period. Archaeologists, anthropologists, and social historians as well as students and avocational readers will welcome Rice's insight.

Author : Ann S. Cordell,Jeffrey M. Mitchem
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683403388

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Methods, Mounds, and Missions by Ann S. Cordell,Jeffrey M. Mitchem Pdf

Methods, Mounds, and Missions offers innovative ways of looking at existing data, as well as compelling new information, about Florida’s past. Diverse in scale, topic, time, and region, the volume’s contributions span the late Archaic through historic periods and cover much of the state’s panhandle and peninsula, with forays into the larger Southeast and circum-Caribbean area. Subjects explored in this volume include coastal ring middens, chiefly power and social interaction in mound-building societies, pottery design and production, faunal evidence of mollusk harvesting, missions and missionaries, European iron celts or chisels, Hernando de Soto’s sixteenth-century expedition, and an early nineteenth-century Seminole settlement. The essays incorporate previously underexplored markers of culture histories such as clay sources and non-chert lithic tools and address complex issues such as the entanglement of utilitarian artifacts with sociocultural and ritual realms. Experts in their topical specializations, this volume’s contributors build on the research methods and interpretive approaches of influential anthropologist Jerald Milanich. They update current archaeological interpretations of Florida history, developing and demonstrating the use of new and improved tools to answer broader and larger questions. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Author : Martin Menz,Analise Hollingshead,Haley Messer
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817361556

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The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities by Martin Menz,Analise Hollingshead,Haley Messer Pdf

Provides case studies of social dynamics and evolution of ring-shaped communities of the Eastern Woodlands

Author : Thomas J. Pluckhahn,Victor D. Thompson
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683400639

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New Histories of Village Life at Crystal River by Thomas J. Pluckhahn,Victor D. Thompson Pdf

This volume explores how native peoples of the Southeastern United States cooperated to form large and permanent early villages, using the site of Crystal River on Florida's Gulf Coast as a case study. Crystal River was once among the most celebrated sites of the Woodland period (ca. 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1000), consisting of ten mounds and large numbers of diverse artifacts from the Hopewell culture. But a lack of research using contemporary methods at this site and nearby Roberts Island limited a full understanding of what these sites could tell scholars. Thomas Pluckhahn and Victor Thompson reanalyze previous excavations and conduct new field investigations to tell the whole story of Crystal River from its beginnings as a ceremonial center, through its growth into a large village, to its decline at the turn of the first millennium while Roberts Island and other nearby areas thrived. Comparing this community to similar sites on the Gulf Coast and in other areas of the world, Pluckhahn and Thompson argue that Crystal River is an example of an "early village society." They illustrate that these early villages present important evidence in a larger debate regarding the role of competition versus cooperation in the development of human societies. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Author : Neill J. Wallis,Asa R. Randall
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813048970

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New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida by Neill J. Wallis,Asa R. Randall Pdf

Given its pivotal location between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, its numerous islands, its abundant flora and fauna, and its subtropical climate, Florida has long been ideal for human habitation. Yet Florida traditionally has been considered peripheral in the study of ancient cultures in North America, despite what it can reveal about social and climate change. The essays in this book resoundingly argue that Florida is in fact a crucial hub of archaeological inquiry. New Histories of Pre-Columbian Florida represents the next wave of southeastern archaeology. Contributors use new data to challenge well-worn models of environmental determinism and localized social contact. Indeed, this volume makes a case for considerable interaction and exchange among Native Floridians and the greater Southeastern United States as seen by the variety of objects of distant origin and mound-building traditions that incorporated extraregional concepts. Themes of monumentality, human alterations of landscapes, the natural environment, ritual and mortuary practices, and coastal adaptations demonstrate the diversity, empirical richness, and broader anthropological significance of Florida’s aboriginal past.

Author : Jennifer Birch,Victor D. Thompson
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683400530

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The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America by Jennifer Birch,Victor D. Thompson Pdf

The emergence of village societies out of hunter-gatherer groups profoundly transformed social relations in every part of the world where such communities formed. Drawing on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, this volume explores the development of villages in eastern North America from the Late Archaic period to the eighteenth century. Sites analyzed here include the Kolomoki village in Georgia, Mississippian communities in Tennessee, palisaded villages in the Appalachian Highlands of Virginia, and Iroquoian settlements in New York and Ontario. Contributors use rich data sets and contemporary social theory to describe what these villages looked like, what their rules and cultural norms were, what it meant to be a villager, what cosmological beliefs and ritual systems were held at these sites, and how villages connected with each other in regional networks. They focus on how power dynamics played out at the local level and among interacting communities. Highlighting the similarities and differences in the histories of village formation in the region, these essays trace the processes of negotiation, cooperation, and competition that arose as part of village life and changed societies. This volume shows how studying these village communities helps archaeologists better understand the forces behind human cultural change.

Author : Mirjana Roksandic,Sheila Mendonça de Souza,Sabine Eggers,Meghan Burchell,Daniela Klokler
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826354570

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The Cultural Dynamics of Shell-Matrix Sites by Mirjana Roksandic,Sheila Mendonça de Souza,Sabine Eggers,Meghan Burchell,Daniela Klokler Pdf

The excavation of shell middens and mounds is an important source of information regarding past human diet, settlement, technology, and paleoenvironments. The contributors to this book introduce new ways to study shell-matrix sites, ranging from the geochemical analysis of shellfish to the interpretation of human remains buried within. Drawing upon examples from around the world, this is one of the only books to offer a global perspective on the archaeology of shell-matrix sites. “A substantial contribution to the literature on the subject and . . . essential reading for archaeologists and others who work on this type of site.”—Barbara Voorhies, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Coastal Collectors in the Holocene: The Chantuto People of Southwest Mexico

Author : Dean R. Snow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317350057

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Archaeology of Native North America by Dean R. Snow Pdf

This comprehensive text is intended for the junior-senior level course in North American Archaeology. Written by accomplished scholar Dean Snow, this new text approaches native North America from the perspective of evolutionary ecology. Succinct, streamlined chapters present an extensive groundwork for supplementary material, or serve as a core text.The narrative covers all of Mesoamerica, and explicates the links between the part of North America covered by the United States and Canada and the portions covered by Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and the Greater Antilles. Additionally, book is extensively illustrated with the author's own research and findings.

Author : Vernon J. Knight
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107022638

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Iconographic Method in New World Prehistory by Vernon J. Knight Pdf

This book offers an overview of iconographic methods and their application to archaeological analysis. It offers a truly interdisciplinary approach that draws equally from art history and anthropology. Vernon James Knight, Jr., begins with a historigraphical overview, addressing the methodologies and theories that underpin both archaeology and art history. He then demonstrates how iconographic methods can be integrated with the scientific methods that are at the core of much archaeological inquiry. Focusing on artifacts from the pre-Columbian civilizations of North and Meso-American sites, Knight shows how the use of iconographic analysis yields new insights into these objects and civilizations.

Author : J. Mark Williams,Daniel T. Elliott
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817309121

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A World Engraved by J. Mark Williams,Daniel T. Elliott Pdf

Collects 15 essays concerning the archaeological culture of the Swift Creek people, a culture centered in Georgia and surrounding states from AD 100 to 700. While little is known of the Swift Creek culture's language and social rules, their social interactions are documented using analysis of the stamps used to decorate their intricately patterned pots, as well as through their extraordinary wood carvings. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Peter N. Peregrine,Melvin Ember
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0306462605

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Encyclopedia of Prehistory by Peter N. Peregrine,Melvin Ember Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Prehistory represents temporal dimension. Major traditions are an attempt to provide basic information also defined by a somewhat different set of on all archaeologically known cultures, sociocultural characteristics than are eth covering the entire globe and the entire nological cultures. Major traditions are prehistory of humankind. It is designed as defined based on common subsistence a tool to assist in doing comparative practices, sociopolitical organization, and research on the peoples of the past. Most material industries, but language, ideology, of the entries are written by the world's and kinship ties play little or no part in foremost experts on the particular areas their definition because they are virtually and time periods. unrecoverable from archaeological con The Encyclopedia is organized accord texts. In contrast, language, ideology, and ing to major traditions. A major tradition kinship ties are central to defining ethno is defined as a group of populations sharing logical cultures.

Author : Susan M. Alt
Publisher : Foundations of Archaeological
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076002914526

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Ancient Complexities by Susan M. Alt Pdf

A current overview of what is meant by cultural c omplexity and how archaeologists study the developoment of complex societies in North America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : IND:30000085311011

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The Florida Anthropologist by Anonim Pdf

Contains papers of the Annual Conference on Historic Site Archeology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : IND:30000107422036

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Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : University of Georgia. Laboratory of Archaeology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UGA:32108027852055

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Report by University of Georgia. Laboratory of Archaeology Pdf