Author: Douglas K. JacksonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9781930487277
Category : Cook County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
The Hoxie Farm Site Fortified Village
Author: Douglas K. JacksonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9781930487277
Category : Cook County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
Following the Mississippian Spread
Author: Robert A. CookPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030890821
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This book is the first to specifically trace the movement of Mississippian maize farmers throughout the US Midwest and Southeast. By providing a backdrop of shifting climatic conditions during the period, this volume also investigates the relationship between farmers and their environments. Detailed regional overviews of key locations in the Mississippi Valley, the Ohio Valley, and the peripheries of the Mississippian culture area reveal patterns and variation in the expression of Mississippian culture and interactions between migrants and local communities. Methodologically, the case studies highlight the strengths of integrating a variety of data sets to identify migration. The volume provides a broader case study of the links between climate change, migration, and the spread of agriculture that is relevant to archaeologists and anthropologists studying early agricultural societies throughout the world. Key patterns of adaptation to and mitigation of the effects of droughts, for example, provide a framework for understanding the options available to societies in the face of climate change afforded by the time-depth of an archaeological perspective.
Transforming the Dead
Author: Eve A. HargravePublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817318615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The essays in Transforming the Dead: Culturally Modified Bone in the Prehistoric Midwest explore the numerous ways that Eastern Woodland Native Americans selected, modified, and used human bones as tools, trophies, ornaments, and other objects imbued with cultural significance in daily life and rituals.
Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States
Author: Edmond A. Boudreaux IIIPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1683401360
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The years AD 1500–1700 were a time of dramatic change for the indigenous inhabitants of southeastern North America, yet Native histories during this era have been difficult to reconstruct due to a scarcity of written records before the eighteenth century. Using archaeology to enhance our knowledge of the period, Contact, Colonialism, and Native Communities in the Southeastern United States presents new research on the ways Native societies responded to early contact with Europeans. Featuring sites from Kentucky to Mississippi to Florida, these case studies investigate how indigenous groups were affected by the expeditions of explorers such as Hernando de Soto, Pánfilo de Narváez, and Juan Pardo. Contributors re-create the social geography of the Southeast during this time, trace the ways Native institutions changed as a result of colonial encounters, and emphasize the agency of indigenous populations in situations of contact. They demonstrate the importance of understanding the economic, political, and social variability that existed between Native and European groups. Bridging the gap between historical records and material artifacts, this volume answers many questions and opens up further avenues for exploring these transformative centuries, pushing the field of early contact studies in new theoretical and methodological directions. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
Across a Great Divide
Author: Laura L. ScheiberPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816502285
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Archaeological research is uniquely positioned to show how native history and native culture affected the course of colonial interaction, but to do so it must transcend colonialist ideas about Native American technological and social change. This book applies that insight to five hundred years of native history. Using data from a wide variety of geographical, temporal, and cultural settings, the contributors examine economic, social, and political stability and transformation in indigenous societies before and after the advent of Europeans and document the diversity of native colonial experiences. The book’s case studies range widely, from sixteenth-century Florida, to the Great Plains, to nineteenth-century coastal Alaska. The contributors address a series of interlocking themes. Several consider the role of indigenous agency in the processes of colonial interaction, paying particular attention to gender and status. Others examine the ways long-standing native political economies affected, and were in turn affected by, colonial interaction. A third group explores colonial-period ethnogenesis, emphasizing the emergence of new native social identities and relations after 1500. The book also highlights tensions between the detailed study of local cases and the search for global processes, a recurrent theme in postcolonial research. If archaeologists are to bridge the artificial divide separating history from prehistory, they must overturn a whole range of colonial ideas about American Indians and their history. This book shows that empirical archaeological research can help replace long-standing models of indigenous culture change rooted in colonialist narratives with more nuanced, multilinear models of change—and play a major role in decolonizing knowledge about native peoples.
North American Indigenous Warfare and Ritual Violence
Author: Richard J. ChaconPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816530386
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This groundbreaking book presents clear evidence—from multiple academic disciplines—that indigenous populations engaged in warfare and ritual violence long before European contact.
The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology
Author: Timothy R. PauketatPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195380118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology reviews the continent's first and last foragers, farmers, and great pre-Columbian civic and ceremonial centers, from Chaco Canyon to Moundville and beyond.
Changing Consumption Patterns on a Mid-nineteenth Century Illinois Farmstead
Author: Claire P. DappertPublisher: Illinois State Archaeological
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
"Investigations conducted under the auspices of the State of Illinois Department of Transportation."
Remote Sensing in Archaeology
Author: Jay K. JohnsonPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817353437
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
One CD-ROM disc in pocket.
The Rhoads Site
Author: Mark J. WagnerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description