{"title":"The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Era","authors":"Patrick L. Johnson","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1936948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1936948","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1936948","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45004585","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":"New Life for Archaeological Collections","authors":"Britta London","doi":"10.1080/0734578x.2021.1933358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578x.2021.1933358","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578x.2021.1933358","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49631850","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 influence in the Yazoo Basin: a ceramic analysis of Early Mississippian features at the Carson site","authors":"Caitlyn Burkes Antoniuk","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1922072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1922072","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ceramic assemblages from pithouses at the Carson site in Mississippi show distinctly nonlocal trends that indicate Cahokian influence in the region. This study evaluates pottery collections from multiple locations with a focus on vessel shapes, slips, and nonlocal types. A minimum number of vessels was established for two contexts at Carson, and those vessels were analyzed based on manufacturing processes and stylistic modifications. Through a comparison of Carson pottery with assemblages from Cahokian neighborhoods, there is clear overlap between the decorative and functional practices in both collections. Factors such as the use of slips, vessel assemblage compositions, and quantitative measures highlight the Cahokian origins of the assemblages at Carson. In investigating Cahokian use of the wider North American landscape, Trempealeau in Wisconsin provides a point of comparison to understand the settlement at Carson and its deviation from local norms. In placing Cahokia in a wider context of interregional interactions, it is clear that landscapes and regions outside of the American Bottom such as that at Carson played a role in Cahokia's rise early in its history.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1922072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41681009","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":"Artifacts and activities associated with mound-area public contexts at the Town Creek site, North Carolina","authors":"Edmond A. Boudreaux III, Daryl W. Armour","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1898740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1898740","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Attributes of Mississippian public architecture have been used to infer aspects of social organization and political economy, but the inclusion of artifactual datasets in these interpretations has occurred less frequently. As a result, we often do not know much about the activities actually associated with public buildings and spaces. This article discusses several public contexts at the Town Creek site (31Mg2), a single-mound Mississippian civic-ceremonial center in central North Carolina that was occupied between AD 1150–1400. Architectural remains and multiple artifact classes are used to explore the activities associated with several public buildings in the mound area at Town Creek. Premound and mound-summit public spaces at Town Creek were associated with food consumption at multiple scales, some of which is consistent with feasting, the consumption of special foods, craft production, and ritual activities that included smoking and tattooing. Some of these activities appear to have been integrative and inclusive while others took place in smaller, more inaccessible spaces, which suggests they were more exclusive in nature. Our findings are consistent with the idea that crafting and the performance of rituals in public spaces were important aspects of leadership at Town Creek.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1898740","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41907939","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":"Using and Curating Archaeological Collections","authors":"Paola A. Schiappacasse","doi":"10.1080/0734578x.2021.1933359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578x.2021.1933359","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578x.2021.1933359","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44208674","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":"Woodland-period fisheries on the north-central coast of the Gulf of Mexico","authors":"E. Reitz, Carla S. Hadden, G. Waselkov, C. Andrus","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1922214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1922214","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite the prevalence of Woodland-period middens on the Gulf of Mexico’s northern coast, Woodland fisheries remain poorly known. Vertebrate and invertebrate assemblages from Plash Island (1BA134; cal AD 325–640) and Bayou St. John (1BA21; cal AD 650–1040) suggest this period was more than a prelude to Mississippian farming. Much of the coastal Woodland economy centered on reliable, productive estuarine resources, particularly molluscs and fishes that provided communities with multiple options in a resilient strategy employed for at least 700 years. A nuanced interpretation of coastal life as an array of flexible, managed responses to a dynamic estuarine environment is more plausible than a model that postulates seasonal abandonment of a productive coastal territory and valuable gear. We posit a more parsimonious interpretation: residents of Woodland fishing villages on the north-central Gulf coast skillfully and flexibly managed the opportunities and challenges of complex multi-season, year-round fisheries.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1922214","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46272132","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":"Benton Phase biface production for exchange: analysis of a lithic reduction area at site 40HO13","authors":"A. Bradbury","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1907725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1907725","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Excavations at site 40HO13 in Houston County, Tennessee, documented three prehistoric lithic reduction areas associated with a Benton Phase occupation. The site was located in an area of abundant chert resources, notably Fort Payne chert. The paper focuses on lithic data from one of the lithic concentrations. The analysis determined that the lithic concentrations were the result of biface manufacture. Bifaces were roughed out at the source location. Knapping on site reduced these bifaces to late-stage bifaces. A large number of bifaces (1,453 estimated) were produced within the one concentration. It is argued that these bifaces were not used on site but were transported to other locations for further reduction and use and represent items manufactured for the purpose of exchange. It is suggested that these bifaces may have been exchanged with groups inhabiting the Central Basin area of Tennessee.","PeriodicalId":34945,"journal":{"name":"Southeastern Archaeology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1907725","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47419912","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 Cumberland River Archaic of Middle Tennessee","authors":"R. Barlow","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1882181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1882181","url":null,"abstract":"","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.2021.1882181","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41672346","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":"Investigating overhunting of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the late Holocene Middle Tennessee River Valley","authors":"Elic M. Weitzel","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1873641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1873641","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Resource depression – a decline in encounter rates with prey due to the actions of a predator – has been documented for numerous species in North America. Yet it is not fully understood whether white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), the most common prey species for Native peoples in eastern North America, were depressed prior to European colonization. To investigate whether white-tailed deer were depressed in precolonial eastern North America, I analyze zooarchaeological data from six sites in the Middle Tennessee River Valley. My results are equivocal, as different lines of evidence support conflicting interpretations. Declines in the abundance of deer in upland sites after ca. 4000 cal BP support depression of deer. However, deer did not decline in floodplain sites, perhaps due to anthropogenic environmental modification (i.e., burning). The upland decline coincides with a shift toward greater wetland patch use, which may have driven a reduction in deer hunting due to patch choice dynamics, not depression. Furthermore, declining deer abundance co-occurs with high terrestrial foraging efficiency, contrary to the expectation that greater exploitation of lower-ranked prey types should occur coincident with high-ranked deer declines. I find no clear support for resource depression of white-tailed deer in this region, but further analysis is needed.","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.2021.1873641","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45929430","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":"Danger from beneath: groundwater–sea-level interactions and implications for coastal archaeological sites in the southeast US","authors":"A. Lecher, April A. Watson","doi":"10.1080/0734578X.2021.1874769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0734578X.2021.1874769","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Coastal low-lying archaeological sites are known to be at risk due to sea-level rise associated with climate change. However, not all of the potential impacts of sea-level rise on these sites have been documented. In this interdisciplinary study we set out to document the effects of rising groundwater tables induced by rising sea level on middens located on barrier islands in southeastern Florida. After excavating two sites, we collected sediment samples that were analyzed for grain size and moisture content. We found that even though these sites are not yet submerged below the groundwater table significant increases in moisture content indicate a subterranean source of the moisture, most likely the capillary fringe above the water table. Increased moisture content of the sediment in which the artifacts are entrained can increase artifact deterioration. Therefore, current and future groundwater water table elevations should be considered when prioritizing sites for excavation and preservation.","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.2021.1874769","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45950964","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}