The Archaeology Of The Caddo

Author : Timothy K. Perttula,Chester P. Walker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803220966

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This landmark volume provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the prehistory and archaeology of the Caddo peoples. The Caddos lived in the Southeastern Woodlands for more than 900 years beginning around AD 800?900, before being forced to relocate to Oklahoma in 1859. They left behind a spectacular archaeological record, including the famous Spiro Mound site in Oklahoma as well as many other mound centers, plazas, farmsteads, villages, and cemeteries. The Archaeology of the Caddo examines new advances in studying the history of the Caddo peoples, including ceramic analysis, reconstructions of settlement and regional histories of different Caddo communities, Geographic Information Systems and geophysical landscape studies at several spatial scales, the cosmological significance of mound and structure placements, and better ways to understand mortuary practices. Findings from major sites and drainages such as the Crenshaw site, mounds in the Arkansas River basin, Spiro Mound, the Oak Hill Village site, the George C. Davis site, the Willow Chute Bayou Locality, the Hughes site, Big Cypress Creek basin, and the McClelland and Joe Clark sites are also summarized and interpreted. This volume reintroduces the Caddos? heritage, creativity, and political and religious complexity.

Author : Timothy K. Perttula,Chester P. Walker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803240469

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The Archaeology of the Caddo by Timothy K. Perttula,Chester P. Walker Pdf

This landmark volume provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the prehistory and archaeology of the Caddo peoples. The Caddos lived in the Southeastern Woodlands for more than 900 years beginning around A.D. 800–900, before being forced to relocate to Oklahoma in 1859. They left behind a spectacular archaeological record, including the famous Spiro Mound site in Oklahoma as well as many other mound centers, plazas, farmsteads, villages, and cemeteries. The Archaeology of the Caddo examines new advances in studying the history of the Caddo peoples, including ceramic analysis, reconstructions of settlement and regional histories of different Caddo communities, Geographic Information Systems and geophysical landscape studies at several spatial scales, the cosmological significance of mound and structure placements, and better ways to understand mortuary practices. Findings from major sites and drainages such as the Crenshaw site, mounds in the Arkansas River basin, Spiro Mound, the Oak Hill Village site, the George C. Davis site, the Willow Chute Bayou Locality, the Hughes site, Big Cypress Creek basin, and the McClelland and Joe Clark sites are also summarized and interpreted. This volume reintroduces the Caddos’ heritage, creativity, and political and religious complexity.

Author : Timothy K. Perttula
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292774230

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The Caddo Nation by Timothy K. Perttula Pdf

First published in 1992 and now updated with a new preface by the author and a foreword by Thomas R. Hester, "The Caddo Nation" investigates the early contacts between the Caddoan peoples of the present-day Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas region and Europeans, including the Spanish, French, and some Euro-Americans. Perttula's study explores Caddoan cultural change from the perspectives of both archaeological data and historical, ethnographic, and archival records. The work focuses on changes from A.D. 1520 to ca. A.D. 1800 and challenges many long-standing assumptions about the nature of these changes.

Author : Jeffrey S. Girard
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807167038

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The Caddos and Their Ancestors by Jeffrey S. Girard Pdf

Taking an archaeological perspective on the past, Jeffrey S. Girard traces native human habitation in northwest Louisiana from the end of the last Ice Age, through the formation of the Caddo culture in the tenth century BCE, to the early nineteenth century. Employing the results of recent scientific investigations, The Caddos and Their Ancestors depicts a distinct and dynamic population spanning from precolonial times to the dawn of the modern era. Girard grounds his research in the material evidence that defined Caddo culture long before the appearance of Europeans in the late seventeenth century. Reliance solely on documented observations by explorers and missionaries—which often reflect a Native American population with a static past—propagates an incomplete account of history. By using specific archaeological techniques, Girard reveals how the Caddos altered their lives to cope with ever-changing physical and social environments across thousands of years. This illuminating approach contextualizes the remnants of houses, mounds, burials, tools, ornaments, and food found at Native American sites in northwest Louisiana. Through ample descriptions and illustrations of these archaeological finds, Girard deepens understanding of the social organization, technology, settlement, art, and worldviews of this resilient society. This long-overdue examination of an often-overlooked cultural force provides a thorough yet concise history of the 14,000 years the Caddo people and their predecessors survived and thrived in what is now Louisiana.

Author : Jeffrey S. Girard,Timothy K. Perttula,Mary Beth Trubitt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759122888

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Caddo Connections by Jeffrey S. Girard,Timothy K. Perttula,Mary Beth Trubitt Pdf

Drawing on the latest archaeological fieldwork, Caddo Connections looks at the highly dynamic cultural landscape of the Caddo Area and its complex interconnections and exchanges with surrounding regions. The authors employ a multiscalar approach to examine cultural diversity through time and across space within the Caddo Area. They explore how and why this diversity developed, consider what allowed it to stabilize during the Mississippian period, and analyze changes following contact between historic Caddo peoples and Europeans. Looking beyond individual river valleys to the broader macroregion, they also address the linkages connecting the Caddo Area with the Southeast, southern Plains, and Southwest.

Author : Cecile Elkins Carter
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080613318X

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Caddo Indians by Cecile Elkins Carter Pdf

This narrative history of the Caddo Indians creates a vivid picture of daily life in the Caddo Nation. Using archaeological data, oral histories, and descriptions by explorers and settlers, Cecile Carter introduces impressive Caddo leaders past and present. The book provides observations, stories, and vignettes on twentieth-century Caddos and invites the reader to recognize the strengths, rooted in ancient culture, that have enabled the Caddos to survive epidemics, enemy attacks, and displacement from their original homelands in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Caddoan Indians
ISBN : WISC:89082368051

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Caddoan Archeology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rory Becker,Kenneth L. Kvamme,Jay K. Johnson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817319595

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Archaeological Remote Sensing in North America by Rory Becker,Kenneth L. Kvamme,Jay K. Johnson Pdf

10. Anthropologically Focused Geophysical Surveys and Public Archaeology: Engaging Present-Day Agents in Placemaking - Edward R. Henry, Philip B. Mink II, and W. Stephen McBride -- Part 4. Earthen Mound Construction and Composition -- 11. The Role of Geophysics in Evaluating Structural Variation in Middle Woodland Mounds in the Lower Illinois River Valley - Jason L. King, Duncan P. McKinnon, Jason T. Herrmann, Jane E. Buikstra, and Taylor H. Thornton -- 12. The Anthropological Potential of Ground-Penetrating Radar for Southeastern Earthen Mound Investigations: A Case Study from Letchworth Mounds, Tallahassee, Florida - Daniel P. Bigman and Daniel M. Seinfeld -- 13. Exploring the Deepest Reaches of Arkansas's Tallest Mounds with Electrical Resistivity Tomography - James Zimmer-Dauphinee -- Part 5. Commentary -- 14. A Decade of Geophysics and Remote Sensing in North American Archaeology: Practices, Advances, and Trends - Kenneth L. Kvamme -- References -- Contributors -- Index

Author : George Amos Dorsey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0803266022

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Traditions of the Caddo by George Amos Dorsey Pdf

First encountered by explorer Hernando de Soto in the 16th century, the Caddoan tribes, found along the Red River in present-day Arkansas and Louisiana, practiced agriculture long before they hunted buffalo. These tales vibrate with both earthly and unearthly forces.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Caddoan Indians
ISBN : WISC:89082368069

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Caddoan Archeology Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Reed Swanton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806128569

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Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians by John Reed Swanton Pdf

First published in 1942, John R. Swanton’s Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians is a classic reference on the Caddos. Long regarded as the dean of southeastern Native American studies, Swanton worked for decades as an ethnographer, ethnohistorian, folklorist, and linguist. In this volume he presents the history and culture of the Caddos according to the principal French, Spanish, and English sources. In the seventeenth century, French and Spanish explorers encountered four regional alliances-Cahinnio, Cadohadacho, Hasinai, and Natchitoches-within the boundaries of the present-day states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma. Their descriptions of Caddo culture are the earliest sources available, and Swanton weaves the information from these primary documents into a narrative, translated into English, for the benefit of the modern reader. For the scholar, he includes in an appendix the extire test of three principal documents in their original Spanish. The first half of the book is devoted to an extensive history of the Caddos, from De Soto’s encounters in 1521 to the Caddos’ involvement in the Ghost Dance Religion of 1890. The second half discusses Caddo culture, including origin legends and religious beliefs, material culture, social relations, government, warfare, leisure, and trade. For this edition, Helen Hornbeck Tanner also provides a new foreword surveying the scholarship published on the Caddos since Swanton’s time.

Author : Gregory D. Wilson
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683401469

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Mississippian Beginnings by Gregory D. Wilson Pdf

Using fresh evidence and nontraditional ideas, the contributing authors of Mississippian Beginnings reconsider the origins of the Mississippian culture of the North American Midwest and Southeast (A.D. 1000–1600). Challenging the decades-old opinion that this culture evolved similarly across isolated Woodland popu¬lations, they discuss signs of migrations, missionization, pilgrimages, violent conflicts, long-distance exchange, and other far-flung entanglements that now appear to have shaped the early Mississippian past. Presenting recent fieldwork from a wide array of sites including Cahokia and the American Bottom, archival studies, and new investigations of legacy collections, the contributors interpret results through contemporary perspectives that emphasize agency and historical contingency. They track the various ways disparate cultures across a sizeable swath of the continent experienced Mississippianization and came to share simi¬lar architecture, pottery, subsistence strategies, sociopolitical organization, iconography, and religion. Together, these essays provide the most comprehensive examination of early Mississippian culture in over thirty years. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Author : Bretton T. Giles,Shawn P. Lambert
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781683402466

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New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery by Bretton T. Giles,Shawn P. Lambert Pdf

In this volume, contributors show how stylistic and iconographic analyses of Mississippian imagery provide new perspectives on the beliefs, narratives, public ceremonies, ritual regimes, and expressions of power in the communities that created the artwork. Exploring various methodological and theoretical approaches to pre-Columbian visual culture, these essays reconstruct dynamic accounts of Native American history across the U.S. Southeast.  These case studies offer innovative examples of how to use style to identify and compare artifacts, how symbols can be interpreted in the absence of writing, and how to situate and historicize Mississippian imagery. They examine designs carved into shell, copper, stone, and wood or incised into ceramic vessels, from spider iconography to owl effigies and depictions of the cosmos. They discuss how these symbols intersect with memory, myths, social hierarchies, religious traditions, and other spheres of Native American life in the past and present. The tools modeled in this volume will open new horizons for learning about the culture and worldviews of past peoples. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series  Contributors: David Dye | Shawn P. Lambert | Bretton T. Giles | Vernon J. Knight, Jr. | Anna Semon | J. Grant Stauffer | Jesse Nowak | George E Lankford

Author : Mason D. Miller, M.A.,Timothy K. Perttula, Ph.D.,Rachel J. Feit, M.A.
Publisher : The Texas Department of Transportation and AmaTerra Environmental, Inc.
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Peering Through the Sands of Time by Mason D. Miller, M.A.,Timothy K. Perttula, Ph.D.,Rachel J. Feit, M.A. Pdf

Explore the rich cultural heritage and history of the Caddo in northeast Texas through the archeological excavations of the Kitchen Branch site (41CP220), a late Titus Phase occupation (15th through 17th Centuries A.D.) site in Camp County. Who are the Caddo and why were they so influential in Texas history and prehistory? Archeologists working on behalf of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) use the materials the prehistoric Caddo left behind to narrate one small part of their story. Immerse yourself in the excavations of a Caddo homestead. Discussions focus on Caddo ceramics and the rich ceramic-making tradition that contributes to their heritage. Learn how the Caddo made pots for everyday use as well as special, ceremonial occasions. See photos of actual vessels recovered from other sites in the region and virtual three-dimensional models of both archeological and modern analogs. Includes a detailed, illustrated glossary of terms. This is a direct PDF export of a fully-interactive electronic document of the same name available for iPad and Mac computer devices through the iTunes Store. Interactive components are therefore not preserved.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Caddo Indians
ISBN : WISC:89096008891

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A Rediscovering of Caddo Heritage by Anonim Pdf