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Placing radiocarbon dating at the center of collective archaeological practice Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Carey J. Garland, Victor D. Thompson, Jennifer Birch, Stefan Brannan, Brett Parbus, Claire Auerbach, Jordan Chapman, Sarah Love, James L. Strawn
Radiocarbon analysis is a common tool used to obtain the absolute ages of materials from archaeological contexts. This method underlies the basis of most archaeological chronologies across the glob...
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Cultivating inclusivity: strategies field school directors use to promote safe and supportive field schools Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Carol E. Colaninno, Shawn P. Lambert, Emily L. Beahm, Morgan D. Tallman, Carl G. Drexler, Clark H. Sturdevant
We report the results of a survey that assessed self-reported actions field school directors take to reduce and prevent sexual harassment at field schools. Using the Contextual Model of Learning fr...
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Bending Archaeology toward Social Justice: Transformational Action for Positive Peace Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Brittany Brown
Published in Southeastern Archaeology (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2024)
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Above and below the Green Line: a social history of divergent Mississippian cultures Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Jessica A. Kowalski, Erin S. Nelson
A cultural boundary between Late Mississippi period groups has long been observed in the Yazoo Basin corresponding with the mouth of the Arkansas River. However, similarities in mound site structur...
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Rock Art in an Indigenous Landscape: From Atlantic Canada to Chesapeake Bay Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Johannes H. N. Loubser
Published in Southeastern Archaeology (Vol. 43, No. 1, 2024)
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All that glitters isn’t calcite: a research update on crystalline artifacts from the Middle Cumberland Region Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Michael C. Moore, Kevin E. Smith, Aaron Deter-Wolf, Emily L. Beahm, Sierra M. Bow
This report offers updated information from crystalline artifact research results initially presented in 2014 by Michael C. Moore and colleagues. At that time, worked and raw crystal items from fou...
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Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey and spatial analysis of the George and Addie Giddens Cemetery, Opelika, Alabama Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Hayden Malloch, Stephanie L. Shepherd, Lorraine Wolf, Meghan Buchanan
Interest in locating and preserving the cemeteries of enslaved African Americans has increased the need for new methodologies coupled with efficient, noninvasive geophysical techniques, such as gro...
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Air and sound: Indigenous wind instruments made of bone in the Southeast United States Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Matthew C. Sanger, Rachel Cajigas, Elliot H. Blair, Anna Semon
By studying the distribution of wind instruments made of bone, we investigate the presence of musical traditions in the American Southeast and nearby regions during the last few centuries prior to ...
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Bluff Field (9CH160) ceramics and radiocarbon dating and their implications for chronology building on Ossabaw Island and the Georgia coast Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Brett Parbus, Victor D. Thompson, Carey J. Garland, Bryan Tucker
ABSTRACT We present the results of the 2022 excavations at the Bluff Field site (9CH160), wherein we consider the juxtaposition of Bayesian radiocarbon modeling against the current ceramic chronologies derived for the Georgia coast. New evidence from AMS radiocarbon dating and statistical modeling pushes both the timing and span of Wilmington series ceramics beyond the ranges afforded by current models
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Captain Kidd’s Lost Ship: The Wreck of the Quedagh Merchant Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Jennifer Marie Cantú Trunzo
Published in Southeastern Archaeology (Vol. 42, No. 4, 2023)
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Archaeological identification of historically referenced sixteenth-century Native provinces: the example of Soto's Capachequi Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Dennis B. Blanton
Archaeological confirmation of the location of the Native province of Capachequi is presented along with new details concerning its Late Mississippian character. Previously, the polity has been kno...
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Spanish Olive Jar and other shipping containers of sixteenth-century Florida: quantifying the documentary record Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-08-14 John E. Worth
Spanish Olive Jar is a ubiquitous marker of the Spanish colonial period in the southeastern United States, appearing on both terrestrial and maritime sites where colonists resided and traveled betw...
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Death and rebirth of structures in the Middle Woodland period of the Appalachian Summit Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Thomas R. Whyte, Alice P. Wright
Postholes that were filled with sand or rocks after pulling the posts have been found on two Middle Woodland sites with Hopewell connections in the Appalachian Summit of western North Carolina. Pre...
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The minor mounds at the Moundville site Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Vernon James Knight
ABSTRACT Thirty-four mounded features at the Moundville site in Alabama have received alphanumeric designations in the past, but the nomenclature of the smaller, less prominent mounds has not been standardized. This paper standardizes their naming and discusses the research conducted at each. The minor mounds show substantial diversity. Some are multistage constructions of clay with evidence of summit
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Reassessing Early Archaic projectile point typologies in the Carolina Piedmont through gross morphometric analysis Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Ian Beggen, Raven Garvey
ABSTRACT Palmer and Kirk Corner-Notched projectile points are common in archaeological assemblages of the Carolina Piedmont dating to the Early Archaic (11,500–9,000 cal BP). These types were initially described by Joffre Lanning Coe ([1964] The Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedmont. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 54(5):1–130. DOI:10.2307/3231919) in his seminal typology and
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Documenting the effects of diagenesis on bone artifacts in coastal Florida through wetting experiments Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Alanna L. Lecher, Gabriel Acevedo Montalvo, April Watson
ABSTRACT Rising sea and groundwater levels in coastal Florida have infringed on and wetted archaeological sites with some sites already submerged by rising sea levels. While studies of moisture-induced artifact diagenesis and destruction have been documented elsewhere, very little documentation exists for Florida and the faunal artifacts typical of Florida. This study sought to fill that gap by documenting
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Cross-mended ceramic sherds as a proxy for depositional processes at two Late Archaic shell rings in coastal Georgia Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Rachel Cajigas, Matthew C. Sanger, Victor D. Thompson
ABSTRACT Characterizing the depositional and temporal nature of sediments lends insight into the construction of monuments and midden accumulation. Identifying discrete deposits at Late Archaic shell rings can be challenging due to the seemingly homogenous nature of shell deposits. Data from cross-mended artifacts can help identify surfaces and determine whether deposits are contemporaneous. We present
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A case study in animal products and urban site formation processes: Charleston, South Carolina (USA) Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Elizabeth J. Reitz, Martha A. Zierden
ABSTRACT Twenty-four zooarchaeological collections from Charleston, South Carolina (USA; ca. 1690s–1820s), suggest choices in the use of animals could extend beyond hierarchical social distinctions, food, and meat utility. The city’s economy incorporated animals and animal products from nonmarket sources for purposes other than meat. Some people raised cattle and smaller livestock on their properties
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Perdiz arrow points from Caddo burial contexts aid in defining discrete behavioral regions Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Robert Z. Selden, John E. Dockall
ABSTRACT Recent research into Caddo bottle and biface morphology yielded evidence for two distinct behavioral regions, across which material culture from Caddo burials expresses significant morphological differences. This study asks whether Perdiz arrow points differ across the same geography, which would extend the pattern of morphological differences to a third category of Caddo material culture
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An evaluation of the distribution of imported lithics within the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta during the Poverty Point period Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-04-15 William A. Mitch
ABSTRACT One cultural hallmark of the Poverty Point culture in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta is the importation of lithic materials for fashioning everyday tools from sources in Arkansas, the Ohio and Tennessee River valleys, and southeastern Missouri. Previous research characterizing the distribution of imported cherts has documented a high intensity of imported chert usage at a cluster of sites near
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Isotope Research in Zooarchaeology: Methods, Applications, and Advances Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Carol E. Colaninno
Published in Southeastern Archaeology (Vol. 42, No. 2, 2023)
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Reframing the question of Baytown food production: plant remains from the Oliver site, northern Yazoo Basin, Mississippi Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Gayle J. Fritz, John M. Connaway
ABSTRACT Site densities in Mississippi's Upper Yazoo Basin indicate that populations increased in numbers during the Late Woodland period. Plant remains recovered during salvage operations at the Oliver site in Coahoma County contribute to a database confirming the importance of both wild and cultivated resources for Baytown people of that time. Because the samples reported here were retrieved by water
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Comments on Early Archaic papers Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Kandace D. Hollenbach, I. Randolph Daniel , Jr., David G. Anderson
Published in Southeastern Archaeology (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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The origins of engraved marine shell cups, copper repoussé plates, and ritual centers: disentangling early Cahokia symbolism from post–AD 1200 SECC iconography Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Thomas E. Emerson
ABSTRACT The development of Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC) iconography has been posited to have had its origins in pre–AD 1200 Greater Cahokia. The recovery of fragments of an engraved shell cup, a few engraved pottery sherds, and copper residue from Mound 34 at Cahokia as well as two regional rock-art sites are said to confirm that the early Braden art style had a Cahokian heritage. Furthermore
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Early Holocene landscape use in the upper Tombigbee River valley Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-01-23 James L. Strawn, D. Shane Miller, Derek T. Anderson, Stephen B. Carmody
ABSTRACT We draw on the distribution of recorded archaeological sites, temporally diagnostic projectile points, sources of lithic raw materials, and fossil pollen projections to evaluate existing models for Early Holocene landscape use in the upper Tombigbee River valley (UTRV) in northeast Mississippi. We then discuss the applicability of Anderson and Hanson (1988), Daniel (2001), and Hollenbach (2009)
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Early Archaic landscape use, cultural transmission, and aggregation in the lower Ohio River valley Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Thomas A. Jennings, Ashley M. Smallwood, Jacob Ray, Vanessa Hanvey, Shaylee Scott, Heather L. Smith, Don Miller, Devin Stephens
ABSTRACT In this paper, we use GIS and 2D geometric morphometrics to explore landscape use and social interaction among Kirk Cluster populations in the lower Ohio River valley. Using cultural transmission as a theoretical foundation, we develop models for identifying assemblages produced by macroband aggregations. We show that two distinct populations occupied northern Indiana and southwestern Kentucky
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A brief history of modeling Early Holocene landscape use in the American Southeast Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-01-19 D. Shane Miller, Ashley M. Smallwood, Philip J. Carr
ABSTRACT The Early Holocene is a critical period in the American Southeast and represents the time between the end of the Pleistocene and emerging cultural complexity of the Mid-Holocene. Due to the limitations imposed by a relative lack of site preservation, an important avenue of inquiry for understanding this period has been connecting the few reported, well-dated sites with the distribution of
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Using “cultural continuity” to examine aspects of Early Archaic settlement in Virginia and beyond Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Joseph A. M. Gingerich
ABSTRACT This paper tests aspects of previous models that argue for cultural continuity between Paleoindian and Early Archaic groups. Using data from Virginia, I provide evidence that Paleoindian and Early Archaic settlement strategies were different. In Virginia, Early Archaic sites are closer together and closer to key resources. Early Archaic groups also occupied new areas, and studies of artifact
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The Early Holocene archaeology of Florida: geospatial approaches to understanding Bolen mobility Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Jessi J. Halligan, David K. Thulman, Adam Burke, Morgan Smith
ABSTRACT Three of the most influential archaeological models in the southeastern US have argued that early foragers organized their lifeways via seasonal movement along major drainage basins; around access to raw material sources, crossing drainage basins; or around group foraging needs, following central place foraging models. We examine the distribution of Early Holocene Bolen sites in Florida in
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Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America: An Interpretive Guide Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Taylor Greene
Published in Southeastern Archaeology (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875 Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-11-10 Jennifer Marie Cantú Trunzo
Published in Southeastern Archaeology (Vol. 42, No. 1, 2023)
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A 4,000-year record of multifaceted fisheries in the central Georgia Bight (USA) Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Elizabeth J. Reitz, Carol E. Colaninno, Irvy R. Quitmyer, Nicole R. Cannarozzi
ABSTRACT Data from Georgia’s (USA) coastal fishing communities demonstrate that life on the coast was neither simplistic nor unproductive. Evidence of multifaceted fisheries is found from ca. 2700 BC into the AD 1500s. We draw upon this record to survey fishing strategies and technologies, seasonal periodicity, residential mobility, and resource management before European-sponsored colonization. Flexibility
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Relating tools to tasks: shell hammers and oyster management on Florida's northern Gulf Coast Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Jessica A. Jenkins, Ginessa J. Mahar
ABSTRACT The purposeful management of oyster fisheries has increasingly been used to explain millennial-scale sustainability evident at shell-bearing archaeological sites throughout the Southeast and beyond. While the focus of oyster management has been on the oysters themselves, the tools related to sustainable practices must also be the subject of investigation. Crown conch hammers are common artifacts
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Biocultural and intersectional analyses of Black motherwork and children in Georgia Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Maria Franklin, Samuel M. Wilson, Hugh B. Matternes
ABSTRACT Biocultural studies have illuminated the roles of slavery, racism, and economic marginalization on the health outcomes of African diasporic populations. This paper highlights Black women as historical agents who, after slavery, exerted greater autonomy over their reproductive roles in childbirth and childcare. The paper’s objectives and interpretations are situated within Black feminists’
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Mississippian Culture Heroes, Ritual Regalia, and Sacred Bundles Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Thomas E. Emerson
Published in Southeastern Archaeology (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2022)
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Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean: Exploring the Spaces in Between Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Mark Kostro
Published in Southeastern Archaeology (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2022)
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Interpreting context and chronology of Cahokia-Caddo mythic female stone figures Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Thomas E. Emerson
ABSTRACT While large red stone figurines and pipes were occasionally discovered by early investigators, only recently were they recovered in secure archaeological context demonstrating them to be twelfth-century Cahokian productions geologically sourced to unique flint clay sources near St. Louis. A subset of these are female figures associated with fertility and renewal motifs. Examination of these
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Evaluating the dating and context of long-nosed god maskettes and iconography in the American midcontinent Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Thomas E. Emerson
ABSTRACT Long-nosed god (LNG) maskettes and iconography have traditionally been seen as a pre-Southern Cult phenomena, placed variously in the tenth to thirteenth centuries. Researchers have suggested they were employed in political and religious interactions or to facilitate trade, but few have looked in detail at their chronology, context, and distribution. Here, an in-depth review of radiocarbon
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The Archaeology of Ancient Cities Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Camila A. Cortina
Published in Southeastern Archaeology (Vol. 41, No. 4, 2022)
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Foodways of the Late Archaic people of St. Catherines Island, Georgia: an analysis of vertebrate remains from two shell rings Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Carol E. Colaninno
ABSTRACT The results of a large study of vertebrate remains from two shell rings on St. Catherines Island, Georgia, are presented: the St. Catherines (9LI231) and McQueen (9LI1648) Shell Rings. The vertebrate archaeofaunal collections are used to infer foodways of Late Archaic people on St. Catherines Island, which centered on a limited suite of small-bodied, estuarine fishes. Given the prevalence
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Placing the dead on the Green River: a consideration of Archaic burial on the Middle Green River of Kentucky Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-07-20 R. Berle Clay
ABSTRACT I suggest that all or most of the tightly flexed human burials in Middle Green River Archaic sites represent secondary interments which had been exposed for variable periods of time, a modification of general opinion. Because of this, their delayed burial in the large, impressive mortuary sites of the Middle Green River like Chiggerville, Indian Knoll, and Carlston Annis reflect potentially
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Thoughts on Weeden Island pottery classification: the type-variety system (again) Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Prudence M. Rice, Neill J. Wallis
ABSTRACT The existing classification of Weeden Island pottery does not serve the needs of twenty-first-century archaeology and has long been in need of an overhaul. We propose that the type-variety classificatory system, used in the Southwestern US, the Maya region, and the Lower Mississippi valley, could be applied to Weeden Island ceramics. This robust hierarchical system classifies pottery into
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Regional Settlement Demography in Archaeology Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Maria Ostendorf Smith
Published in Southeastern Archaeology (Vol. 41, No. 3, 2022)
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Pre-Columbian Art of the Caribbean Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Pauline M. Kulstad-González
Published in Southeastern Archaeology (Vol. 41, No. 3, 2022)
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From Colonization to Domestication: Population, Environment, and the Origins of Agriculture in Eastern North America Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Brett Parbus
Published in Southeastern Archaeology (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2022)
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Native crops on the threshold of European contact: ritual seed deposits at Kuykendall Brake, Arkansas Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Gayle J. Fritz, John H. House
ABSTRACT Flexible strategies of crop production and wild food procurement helped late Mississippian farmers withstand environmental and social perturbations that preceded and followed European contact. Beans were fully incorporated by AD 1400, but their economic importance is difficult to assess due to low likelihood of preservation. Likewise, oily native seeds including sumpweed and sunflower are
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American Antiquities: Revisiting the Origins of American Archaeology Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-04-06 Carolyn D. Dillian
Published in Southeastern Archaeology (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2022)
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Hickory nut storage and processing at the Victor Mills site (9CB138) and implications for Late Archaic land use in the middle Savannah River valley Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-03-13 Kenneth E. Sassaman, Emily R. Bartz
ABSTRACT Despite the ubiquity of charred hickory nutshell in archaeological contexts throughout the Eastern Woodlands, evidence for nut processing and storage is elusive and ambiguous. To the extent that hickory nuts factored prominently in Indigenous foodways – particularly as a storable resource – mass processing was possibly specialized at times and sited in places for that express purpose. One
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Commemoration of a Mississippian ceremonial structure and ritual practitioner at Walling II, Alabama Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-03-13 John H. Blitz, Dominique Bodoh
ABSTRACT A previously unreported Depression-era excavation at the Walling II site on the Tennessee River, Alabama, revealed a context that may provide insight into Mississippian shamanic ritual. Mound A, a low earthen mound, was erected over the remains of a small circular structure, followed by the burial of a single person accompanied by a human effigy smoking pipe, human calvaria, and other unusual
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“Then Potano”: Archaeological investigations at the Richardson and White Ranch sites in northern-central Florida Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-03-13 Willet A. Boyer III, Dennis Blanton, Gary Ellis, Rochelle Marrinan, Jeffrey M. Mitchem, Marvin T. Smith, John E. Worth
ABSTRACT The town of Potano, refenced in sixteenth-century and in early seventeenth-century Spanish accounts of the exploration and settlement of the Southeast, is one of the named sites associated with the Hernando de Soto entrada that possesses sufficient documentary and archaeological evidence that would allow for its firm identification. The Richardson site, 8AL100, has long been known as a site
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Late Woodland settlement ecology of the Appalachian Summit Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Colin P. Quinn, Emily Walker, Alice Wright
ABSTRACT The Late Woodland (ca. AD 800–1500) was a time of socioeconomic and environmental change in the Appalachian Summit. Changing climatic conditions and the introduction of maize agriculture made permanent settlement in these high-elevation mountain landscapes possible for the first time. We adopt a settlement ecology approach to examine how Late Woodland communities situated themselves in the
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The materiality of the Apalachee diaspora: an Indigenous history of contact and colonialism in the Gulf South Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Michelle M. Pigott
ABSTRACT In 1704 the Apalachee of northern Florida dispersed across the Southeast in the wake of the destruction of their homeland, experiencing a diaspora borne out of colonial violence, disappointing alliances, and the search for economic and political stability. Throughout the eighteenth century, various Apalachee communities traveled and settled across the American South, maintaining their ethnic
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A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism: Finding Meaning on Higher Ground Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Thomas E. Emerson
(2022). A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism: Finding Meaning on Higher Ground. Southeastern Archaeology: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 76-78.
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Archaeological investigations at the Charity Hall mission site (22MO733) Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-01-22 Matthew P. Rooney, Tara Skipton, Brad R. Lieb, Charles R. Cobb
ABSTRACT The Charity Hall mission school was one of dozens of Protestant missions established during the 1820s using federal funding provided by the Civilization Fund Act of 1819. These missions have received little attention from archaeologists due to their short lifespans and limited number. The archaeological investigations at Charity Hall, which was established within the Mississippi territory
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A comparison of rock art and bluff shelter spatial distributions in the eastern Arkansas Ozarks Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-01-21 Jordan L. Schaefer
ABSTRACT This paper examines the spatial distribution of rock art sites in the eastern Arkansas Ozarks in order to identify the types of environments that were preferred by those who made the art. With few exceptions, Ozark rock art tends to appear inside of bluff shelters. Statistical hypothesis testing is therefore used to compare the spatial distribution of rock art sites with that of bluff shelters
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The Caddos and Their Ancestors: Archaeology and the Native People of Northwest Louisiana Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Matthew P. Rooney
(2022). The Caddos and Their Ancestors: Archaeology and the Native People of Northwest Louisiana. Southeastern Archaeology: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 74-75.
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Invisible Founders: How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Katie Zejdlik
(2022). Invisible Founders: How Two Centuries of African American Families Transformed a Plantation into a College. Southeastern Archaeology: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 75-76.
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Spanish Florida’s eighteenth-century presidios and the tale of their ceramics Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Judith A. Bense
ABSTRACT At the turn of the eighteenth century, two military presidios – West Florida and San Agustín – anchored the shrinking and besieged colony of Spanish Florida. Unlike San Agustín that stayed in one place, the West Florida presidio was relocated three times, creating four geographically separate and chronologically sequential sites of the same community and enabling fine-grained temporal analyses
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No gods, no masters: Indigenous environmental knowledge in Mississippian art Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-10-29 L. June Bloch
ABSTRACT Mississippian and Woodland art and iconography is often interpreted as representing supernatural subject matter within a three-tiered cosmos. This approach, what I call the mythological-structural model, has been highly generative. However, it also reproduces assumptions rooted in a social evolutionary definition of religion as essentially “mistaken beliefs,” such that ancestral Southeastern
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Morphological and functional variability in triangular projectile points in the Piedmont Southeast, 1300–1600 CE Southeastern Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-09-30 Matthew Capps, Eric E. Jones
ABSTRACT Triangular arrowheads are overwhelmingly the dominant projectile point form across eastern North America from 600 to 1600 CE. Although triangular points have been studied less than earlier technologies, important research has been conducted over the last 25 years on their morphology, function, and temporal relationships. One important observation from reading these works is that there is noticeable