During the Middle Woodland period, from 200 BC to AD 600, southeastern societies erected monuments, interacted widely, and produced some of the most striking material culture of the pre-Columbian era, but these developments are often overshadowed by the contemporaneous florescence of Hopewell culture in Ohio. I argue that the demonstrable material links between the Middle Woodland Southeast and Midwest demand that we cease to analyze these regional archaeological records in isolation and adopt multiscalar perspectives on the social fields that emerged from and impacted local Middle Woodland societies. In synthesizing recent research on Middle Woodland settlement, monumentality, interaction, and social organization, I make explicit comparisons between the Middle Woodland Southeast and Ohio Hopewell, revealing both commonalities and contrasts. New methodological approaches in the Southeast, including geophysical survey techniques, Bayesian chronological modeling, and high-resolution provenance analyses, promise to further elucidate site-specific histories and intersite connectivity. By implementing theoretical frameworks that simultaneously consider these local and global dimensions of Middle Woodland sociality, we may establish the southeastern Middle Woodland period as an archaeological context capable of elucidating the deep history of the Eastern Woodlands as well as long-standing issues surrounding middle-range societies.

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东南中部林地的本地和“全球”观点

在中林地时期（从公元前200年到公元600年），东南社会竖立着纪念碑，相互影响广泛，并产生了一些前哥伦布时期最引人注目的物质文化，但这些发展常常被合和文化的同时期蓬勃发展所掩盖。在俄亥俄州。我认为，中东中部林地和中西部之间可证明的物质联系要求我们停止孤立地分析这些区域考古记录，并就从中部中部林地社会产生并影响当地社会领域采取多尺度观点。在综合有关中林地定居，纪念性，互动性和社会组织的最新研究的过程中，我对中林地东南部和俄亥俄霍普韦尔进行了明确的比较，揭示了共性和对比。东南部的新方法论方法，包括地球物理勘测技术，贝叶斯年代学模型和高分辨率物源分析，有望进一步阐明特定地点的历史和地点间的连通性。通过实施理论框架，同时考虑到中林地社会性的这些本地和全球维度，我们可以将东南中林地时期确立为能够阐明东林地的深厚历史以及围绕中林地带的长期问题的考古背景。社会。