{"title":"The case for a Late Lamar polity on the lower Ocmulgee River in Georgia","authors":"Dennis B. Blanton, Rachel Hensler, F. Snow","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1873063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1873063","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper develops the case for an indigenous polity on the lower Ocmulgee River in Georgia. Doing so enhances understanding of the late prehistoric–early historic indigenous cultural landscape in the Atlantic coastal plain. It also allows for refined interpretation of indigenous responses to European colonial activities. Two lines of evidence, a ceramic attribute analysis and a European artifact analysis, are the principal new bases for establishing the polity’s history. These results indicate that three chiefly centers were sequentially occupied. Ultimately, under colonial-era stresses, the polity changed from having more to less interaction with external groups and it became more strongly oriented to the Atlantic coastal zone.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1873063","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41663632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cahokia's Mound 72 shell artifacts","authors":"Laura Kozuch","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1873057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1873057","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Around AD 1050 at Cahokia, a sudden coalescence of peoples with new ceremonials and Mound 72's commemorative human interments provide evidence of long–distance contacts and finely crafted artifacts. Beads from the famous Mound 72 Beaded Burial have remained unstudied since they were unearthed-a strange situation given the importance of the Beaded Burial. This article presents results from my reexamination of all shell artifacts from Mound 72, including some new artifact identifications, bead counts, and measurements. Artifacts previously called gorgets are shell cups, and one was remarkably large. The source was probably the eastern Gulf of Mexico for most marine shells. I present a new method of examining bead drill holes using the frustum formula, suggesting that porcupine quills or biological materials were used as drill tips for columella beads. This method can be used on stone and bone beads as well. I hypothesize a general decline in bead crafting through time. Paired shell artifact emplacements throughout Mound 72 echo the paired male/female human interments from the Beaded Burial, adding to evidence that Mound 72's burials were part of a ritual theater. My analysis supports the contention that marine shell artifacts were symbolic conduits of human spirits and power.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1873057","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44446052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archaeology in South Carolina","authors":"C. Rodning","doi":"10.1080/0734578x.2020.1841471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578x.2020.1841471","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578x.2020.1841471","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44001341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charleston: An Archaeology of Life in a Coastal Community","authors":"Thomas E. Beaman.","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2020.1833593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2020.1833593","url":null,"abstract":"For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the port city of Charleston was arguably the largest coastal commercial center south of Philadelphia. From its beginnings in the late seventeent...","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578X.2020.1833593","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46333695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Where is the Southeastern Native American economy?","authors":"Stephen A. Kowalewski, V. Thompson","doi":"10.1080/0734578x.2020.1816599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578x.2020.1816599","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Economics – the socially instituted ways of managing how people value, make, exchange, and consume goods – is a major part of human culture. Yet there is comparatively little study of the economies of the pre-sixteenth-century Southeast, in spite of revealing written comments by the earliest European observers and the fact that cross-culturally in societies of comparable scale, multiple, complicated economic institutions always play a central role. Because of the Southeast’s rich environment and well-preserved material record of human culture spanning over 14,000 years, archaeology here could be contributing much more data and new theory to economic anthropology generally. As examples of this potential, we draw on existing archaeological information indicating (1) that chert in the Cahokia region was most likely obtained through market mechanisms, and (2) that ever since their origins, plazas were designed consistent with facilitating and managing exchange. We sketch two models (Market Fair and Formal Market) that may be useful for studying economic evolution. We suggest additional, practicable research questions to further our understanding of Southeastern economic structures.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578x.2020.1816599","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41329767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Little, Ashley A. Dumas, Hunter B. Johnson, Travis Rael
{"title":"A refinement of post-contact Choctaw ceramic chronology","authors":"K. Little, Ashley A. Dumas, Hunter B. Johnson, Travis Rael","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2020.1816598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2020.1816598","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Over the course of the eighteenth century, the Choctaws of present-day east-central Mississippi and west Alabama experienced widespread changes in trade relations and alliances, subsistence practices, and sociopolitical arrangements as a result of intensifying European colonization of their homeland. Our ability to study these changes across the homeland requires accurate and detailed ceramic chronologies. Recent excavations of ten features at two eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Choctaw house sites produced artifacts suitable for seriation and samples for Bayesian analysis of radiometric dates. The results are compared with Choctaw ceramics excavated from secure contexts at Fort Tombecbé to refine our baseline understanding of Choctaw ceramic chronology.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578X.2020.1816598","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48014111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cahokia in context: hegemony and diaspora","authors":"T. Emerson","doi":"10.1080/0734578x.2020.1808940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578x.2020.1808940","url":null,"abstract":"It has been three decades since the last gathering of scholars to assess the importance of Cahokia to Eastern Woodland pre-Columbian native history. New Perspectives on Cahokia: Views from the Peri...","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578x.2020.1808940","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42440908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rosewood massacre: an archaeology and history of intersectional violence","authors":"R. Stark","doi":"10.1080/0734578x.2020.1800365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578x.2020.1800365","url":null,"abstract":"Gonzalez-Tennant’s assessment of Rosewood, Florida, the first archaeological study of an American race riot, is an exploration of a history hidden in plain sight. The settlement of Rosewood, locate...","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578x.2020.1800365","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48795112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuity and change in the Native American village: multicultural origins and descendants of the fort ancient culture","authors":"C. Sea","doi":"10.1080/0734578x.2020.1793089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578x.2020.1793089","url":null,"abstract":"Continuity and Change is a synthesis of many years of archaeological research conducted by Dr. Robert A. Cook at Fort Ancient sites in southwestern Ohio and southeastern Indiana. Cook has two major...","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578x.2020.1793089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41784928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}