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{"title":"Honoring Ancestors in Sacred Space: The Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century African-Bahamian Cemetery (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)","authors":"Shawn M. Patch","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.2003023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.2003023","url":null,"abstract":"authors employed a map with documentation of the voyages of the Concorde prior to its capture by Blackbeard and his crew. The subsequent maps on pages 26–27 show the documented location of the QAR after the capture of the Concorde on November 17, 1717. There is a sense of a clear geographic and temporal baseline for the reader and allows for successive chapters to describe the evidence of the ship prior to its end as both the Concorde and the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Chapter 6 discusses the abundant material evidence associated with the QAR site. The authors do acknowledge that the “full and final story” has yet to be realized due to partial investigation and because much of the artifacts are still in concreted form (p. 89). The QAR findings are discussed as a “fascinating peek” of the QAR under the command of Blackbeard. The authors begin revealing the material remains of the hull exterior, then delve into the interior with an interesting look at finds such as cannons, navigational equipment, bells, ballast and a copious amount of weaponry. Many historical inaccuracies and generalizations of this period of piracy conjure images of disorder. The film industry has facilitated inaccuracy related to colonial piracy. I am reminded of the Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011). Set in the 1750s, the Hollywood Blackbeard is alive and well, despite dying in 1718, as indicated on page 166. It is understandable that a film universe such as this that is set in the 1740–50s, needs a nameworthy antagonist and would feel the need to resurrect Edward Thache. This is one of many inaccuracies. I will not expand, but it is these types of errors that promulgate inaccuracy and confusion to the broader public. One interesting counter the authors make is how the QAR, and more accurate representations, have seeped into popular culture. This is demonstrated by the popular television quiz show Jeopardy! taking notice and giving the QAR and Blackbeard a more accurate depiction. It is clear from the discussion in Chapter 6 that order is vastly important and clearly maintained when ships like the Concorde transitioned into pirate hands. The vignette, the Duties of a Ship’s Surgeon by Dr. Carnes-McNaughton, one of the principal authors, discusses the medical treatment of the crew and the regime of the ship surgeon and the day-to-day management of this important job. This gives an amazing glance at the medical science of the time and the surprisingly professional and serious occupation of a ship’s surgeon aboard a vessel in the early eighteenth-century, whether in French or pirate form. Additionally, particularly noteworthy is a vignette titled Tales of Pirate Repasts discussing the hundreds of artifacts representing the diet of the crew. The varied range of animal bone depicts the diverse diet of the buccaneers, such as beef, pork, fowl and fish. The zooarchaeological evidence even shows rat bones and gnawing marks on a porringer, indicating a typical “stowaway.” I","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43412317","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 Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma: Archaeology from the WPA Era until Today","authors":"Ramie A. Gougeon","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.2003020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.2003020","url":null,"abstract":"ity, and identity-formation, disseminating new ideas outward into core societies and providing the impetus for meaningful cultural transformations. As noted previously, my only critique of this volume is that the editor’s concept of migration needs more consideration of scale. I would argue that movement is an important factor shaping identity formation in each of Harry and Herr’s designated edge region types, not just among frontiers and contact zones. Still, it is heartening that there are scholars working to create such a useful framework for examining edge regions and that it is applicable among a wide variety of cases. Such flexibility is demonstrated by the use of various methods by the book’s contributors, ranging from social network and non-metric dental analyses to material and ethnohistoric comparisons. I look forward to seeing this framework expanded upon by future archaeologists and I hope to see a growing interest in edge societies as we continue to learn and be inspired by these unique and diverse places.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49420874","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":"Spanish Florida’s eighteenth-century presidios and the tale of their ceramics","authors":"J. Bense","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1968566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1968566","url":null,"abstract":"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. Here, I analyze ceramic trends that reveal three Mexican majolica types, Olive Jar, and the tempering agents of Native American ceramics that are temporally sensitive. However, these ceramic trends are a cautionary tale as they may be specific only to the West Florida Hispanic and Native American settlements in this region. When comparing the ceramics from West Florida and San Agustín, the main difference is a much higher proportion of Native American ceramics in San Agustín, which I attribute to the presence of many Indian and local mestizo women in their households. This demographic was not as substantial in West Florida. The differences in the two eighteenth-century Spanish Florida presidios reflects flexibility at the local level in implementing a highly regulated Spanish imperial system that enabled their colonial empire to include innumerable indigenous cultures in a variety of historic circumstances.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48287867","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":"Excavations at the Howe Pottery: A Late Nineteenth-Century Kiln in Benton, Arkansas","authors":"Christopher T Espenshade","doi":"10.1080/0734578x.2021.2003016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578x.2021.2003016","url":null,"abstract":"careers in bioarchaeology. Read this book for yourself and think deeply about its implications for our profession. The free exchange of ideas is important to any pursuit of knowledge. I imagine that is why the University of Florida Press published it. But, while you are contemplating the role of “science” in seeking knowledge about Indigenous lives, particularly here in the American Southeast, make time to refresh your perspectives on the colonial past in this region. For instance, we all know about “Indian Removal” policy of the 1830s, but it takes on modern relevance in the way University of Georgia (UGA) historian Claudio Saunt narrates removal as deportation (Unworthy Republic, 2020, Norton). And we all know about the college land-grant legislation of 1862, but missing in popular narratives of its benefits are details of the dispossession of Indigenous lands west of the Mississippi whose sale seeded endowments for institutions like UGA and my own. The state of Florida, for example, received scrip for 90,226 acres from 996 parcels of Indian land distributed across nine states west of the Mississippi, and that was a small allotment, keyed to the size of the state’s white population (High Country News, March 30, 2020). Historian Margaret Nash (History of Education Quarterly 59(4):437–467, 2019) refers to the college land-grant system as an extension of settler colonialism, much like the Homestead Act (1862), the Dawes Act (1887), and earlier precedents like the Florida Armed Occupation Act of 1842. Consider these current perspectives on Native American experiences since the arrival of Europeans and ask yourself how you would feel being on the victimized side of dispossession. The narratives have not changed simply because society has become more progressive or liberal; they have changed because the evidentiary basis for knowledge claims has grown, particularly from the bottom up, from those whose stories were silenced in the narratives of a dominating state. In this sense, the central thread of this book’s argument is valid: the free pursuit of knowledge is paramount. However, we need nuanced and dialogical approaches, not diatribe. I await a more reasoned argument as to why the value of studying the skeletal remains of Native Americans supersedes the costs of inflicting yet another insult on people whose historical relationship with anthropology, science, and the state has been anything but patriating. In the meantime, I hope most of my colleagues of European ancestry agree that the descendants of those whose land and culture were dispossessed by our forebears are owed our deference.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48807426","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":"Morphological and functional variability in triangular projectile points in the Piedmont Southeast, 1300–1600 CE","authors":"Matthew Capps, Eric E. Jones","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1980950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1980950","url":null,"abstract":"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 variability within the triangular form both between and within regions. However, this variability has not been studied extensively by quantitative means. In this research, we examine a collection of 199 points from two Piedmont Siouan sites in the upper Yadkin River valley dating to 1300–1600 CE. We analyzed seven discrete attributes using discriminant function analysis and found quantitative support for the contemporaneous existence of the three forms and evidence of changes in morphology over time. We follow this with an examination of the context and breakage patterns of these types to discuss their roles in social, political, and economic activities. We then compare our results to those from other areas of eastern North America to address why such variability and changes over time may have occurred.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44409546","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 Archaeology of Virginia’s First Peoples","authors":"H. Bassett","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1933695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1933695","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1933695","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46467936","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":"Sourcing Aztalan pipestone ear spools and its implications for interpreting Cahokian targeted acquisition and interaction","authors":"T. Emerson, J. Richards, R. E. Hughes, Steven L. Boles","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1946260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1946260","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Identifying ancient patterns of trade, exchange, and social relations through the tracking of the origin point and final place of deposition of objects is an integral part of archaeological research. Using such information, scholars have constructed elaborate interpretive models to explain the interactions of past societies. The key to success is the correct identification of the original material. In this project, we have undertaken the sourcing of the pipestones utilized by native people living in the Mississippian era in the region between Greater Cahokia and Aztalan in southern Wisconsin to make ear spools. For this research we employed near-infrared spectroscopy, x-ray florescence, and color measurement technology. Our research revealed that the primary source for regional Mississippian ear spools were two distinct variants of Baraboo pipestone from quarries in west-central Wisconsin. The analysis of the Aztalan ear spools and the recent discovery of an ear spool workshop area at the East St. Louis Mound Precinct have expanded our understanding of regional pipestone ear spool manufacture, distribution, and context. Our findings suggest that while Aztalan was enmeshed in a regional network of Baraboo pipestone exchange, Cahokia employed practices that focused on selective targeting for the acquisition of distant exotics.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1946260","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46551256","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":"Multi-method geoarchaeological analyses demonstrates exceptionally rapid construction of Ridge West 3 at Poverty Point","authors":"T. Kidder, S. Kai, E. Henry, S. Grooms, K. Ervin","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1958445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1958445","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This report presents results of re-excavation and reanalysis of unit 5276N 4790E, located on Ridge West 3 (RW3) at the Poverty Point site. Jon Gibson excavated this unit and others in 1991 and argued that RW3 was constructed rapidly. We test the fast construction hypothesis by applying new methods (micromorphology, magnetic susceptibility, sequential loss-on-ignition) and by obtaining new radiocarbon dates. Before construction, the ground surface beneath RW3 was cleared and occupied. Preconstruction deposits are composed of anthropogenically enriched sediments. RW3 was constructed in layers of mixed heterogeneous natural and anthropogenically enriched sediments. The surfaces of these layers were used briefly during construction. The goal of the builders was to quickly raise the ridge to its full height. Magnetic susceptibility measurements and artifact density data show that the top of the constructed ridge is buried 10 to 30 cm below the modern surface. The construction of this section of RW3 was exceptionally rapid. The ridge was built after 3355–3210 cal BP and was under construction by at least 3450–2975 cal BP. Analysis of existing excavations offers great opportunity for pursuing vital research questions while having a limited effect on the integrity of archaeological deposits at Poverty Point.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43279509","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":"Old ways in new places? Experimenting with plants in the early plantation setting","authors":"J. L. Johanson, A. Agha","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1945745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1945745","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Plants and foodways have long been recognized for their importance to the construction of identity and culture in plantation settings. Yet despite this focus on plants and foodways in plantation archaeology, there is a need for more archaeological documentation of the types of plants and fields being cultivated in newly formed plantations in the New World. We combine historical documentation with an assemblage of recovered plant remains from the Lord Ashley site (38DR83a) to examine plant use during the formative years of a plantation economy. A renewed focus on experimental cropping in the New World plantation system at this site, along with one of the most well documented enslaved African populations before the 1690s in South Carolina, point to the influence of cross-cultural entanglements in building New World agricultural systems. The recovery of watermelon, an African cultivar, found alongside an assemblage of artifacts and other archaeobotanical remains associated with the enslaved Africans at the site, also point to the role of first-generation Africans in establishing New World foodway traditions.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1945745","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41336969","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 complex construction history of Poverty Point’s timber circles and concentric ridges","authors":"Michael L. Hargrave, R. Clay, R. Dalan, D. Greenlee","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1961350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1961350","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Poverty Point World Heritage Site (ca. 1700–1100 BC) is one of the world’s unique fisher-hunter-gatherer sites. Magnetic gradient surveys of ca. 25 ha together with magnetic susceptibility studies, coring, targeted excavations, and stratigraphic investigations have yielded important new discoveries about aspects of the construction history of the site’s monumental concentric ridges and massive plaza. Thirty-six timber circles with diameters ranging up to 62 m are located in and near the plaza. The closely spaced posts and circle clusters suggest extensive rebuilding. Ridge construction components have been identified through the presence of distinctive linear magnetic anomalies. The components provide evidence for ridge single and multistage construction, repairs, and possible deconstruction. The innermost two ridges are inferred to be the earliest, as they exhibit evidence for longer, more complex construction histories than the outer ridges. We now see that Poverty Point’s construction history is both more complex and more accessible than previously thought.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42894340","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}