Download or read book Archaeological Investigations in the Gainesville Lake Area of the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeological Investigations in the Gainesville Lake Area of the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway Biocultural studies in the Gainesville Lake area written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeological Investigations in the Gainesville Lake Area of the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway Gainesville Lake area lithics written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeological Investigations in the Gainesville Lake Area of the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway The Gainesville Lake area excavations written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mississippian Emergence written by Bruce D. Smith and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2007-10-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, addressing a topic of ongoing interest and debate in American archaeology, examines the evolution of ranked chiefdoms in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States during the period A.D. 700–1200. The volume brings together a broad range of professionals engaged in the fieldwork that has vitalized the theoretical debates on the development of Mississippi Valley cultures. The initial chapter provides a general discussion of various explanations for the rise of these distinctive ranked societies in the eastern United States (A.D. 750-1050) and sets the stage for the interdisciplinary analysis from multiple viewpoints that follows. The first section discusses a cluster of individual sites in the Midwest and Southeast and reveals the parallel—and occasionally divergent—paths followed by the inhabitants as they transitioned from Late Woodland into Mississippian lifeways. The chapters in the second half discuss by region the emergence of ranked agricultural societies and examine how these networks played a role in the large-scale and roughly contemporaneous socio-political development. Contributors: C. Clifford Boyd Jr. James A. Brown R. P. Stephen Davis Jr. John House John E. Kelly Richard A. Kerber Dan F. Morse Phyllis Morse Martha Ann Rolingson Gerald F. Schroedl Bruce D. Smith Paul D. Welch Howard D. Winters
Download or read book Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom written by Vernon James Knight and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2007-01-28 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together nine Moundville specialists who trace the site’s evolution and eventual decline Built on a flat terrace overlooking the Black Warrior River in Alabama, the Moundville ceremonial center was at its height a densely occupied town of approximately 1,000 residents, with at least 29 earthen mounds surrounding a central plaza. Today Moundville is not only one of the largest and best-preserved Mississippian sites in the United States but also one of the most intensively studied. This volume brings together nine Moundville specialists who trace the site’s evolution and eventual decline.
Download or read book Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone written by Robbie Franklyn Ethridge and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there fragmented, migrated, coalesced, and reorganized into new and often quite different societies. The editors of this volume, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, argue that such a period and region of instability and regrouping constituted a "shatter zone."
Download or read book Archaeology of the Gainesville Lake Area written by Ned J. Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gainesville Lake Area Excavations written by Ned J. Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Southern and Central Alabama Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore written by Clarence Bloomfield Moore and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2001-04-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The works by Clarence B. Moore reproduced in this volume were published originally in 1899, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1907, and 1918.".
Download or read book An Archaeological Overview of the Tombigbee River Basin Alabama and Mississippi written by Eugene M. Futato and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mound Excavations at Moundville written by Vernon James Knight and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a state-of-the-art, data-rich study of excavations undertaken at the Moundville site in west central Alabama, one of the largest and most complex of the mound sites of pre-contact North America.
Download or read book The Archaeology of Houses and Households in the Native Southeast written by Benjamin A. Steere and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores changes in houses and households in the southeastern United States from the Woodland to the Historic Indian Period (ca. 200 B.C. to A.D. 1800). Most studies of domestic architecture in the Southeast have been conducted at the single-site scale. As a result, broader spatial and temporal patterns of variation in houses and households are not well understood. To address this problem, Steere constructed a database that catalogues the architectural features of 1,258 structures from 65 sites in the Southern Appalachian region and surrounding areas. Significant trends identified by this comparative study include changes in the size and spacing of houses, changes in architectural investment, and a secular trend toward the increasing segmentation of houses. Using a theoretical framework developed from household archaeology and anthropology, Steere argues that certain aspects of this architectural variation can be explained by changes in household economics and household composition, symbolic behavior, status differentiation, and settlement patterning. More generally, he proposes that large-scale patterns of diachronic and synchronic variation in domestic architecture are best explained by changes in social organization"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway Alabama and Mississippi Navigation written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis written by Lane Anderson Beck and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, archaeologists offer a new direction for burial research by expanding the models for mortuary analysis from a site-specific to a regional level. Contributors explore how regional mortuary approaches allow the introduction of new questions about peer polity interactions and regional alliances-extending traditional settlement system and exchange analyses. This volume features case studies examining mortuary sites as components of the archaeological landscape.
Download or read book Archaeology of the Mississippian Culture written by Peter N. Peregrine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. In recent years there has been a general increase of scholarly and popular interest in the study of ancient civilizations. Yet, because archaeologists and other scholars tend to approach their study of ancient peoples and places almost exclusively from their own disciplinary perspectives, there has long been a lack of general bibliographic and other research resources available for the non-specialist. This series is intended to fill that need.
Download or read book Trends and Traditions in Southeastern Zooarchaeology written by Tanya M. Peres and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most works of southeastern archaeology focus on stone artifacts or ceramics, this volume is the first to bring together past and current trends in zooarchaeological studies. Faunal reports are often relegated to appendices and not synthesized with the rest of the archaeological data, but Trends and Traditions in Southeastern Zooarchaeology calls attention to the diversity of information that faunal remains can reveal about rituals, ideologies, socio-economic organization, trade, and past environments. These essays, by leading practitioners in this developing field, highlight the differences between the archaeological focus on animals as the food source of their time and the belief among zooarchaeologists that animals represent a far more complex ecology. With broad methodological and interpretive analysis of sites throughout the region, the essays range in topic from the enduring symbolism of shells for more than 5,000 years to the domesticated dog cemeteries of Spirit Hill in Jackson County, Alabama, and to the subsistence strategies of Confederate soldiers at the Florence Stockade in South Carolina. Ultimately challenging traditional concepts of the roles animals have played in the social and economic development of southeastern cultures, this book is a groundbreaking and seminal archaeological study.
