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Does Size Matter? What the Projectile Points from Oregon’s Mill Creek Archaeological Complex Tell Us 尺寸重要吗？俄勒冈州米尔克里克考古建筑群的弹丸点告诉我们什么

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.11

Thomas J. Connolly, Paul W. Baxter

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Local Responses to a Fourteenth-Century AD Immigration Event on the Georgia Coast 当地对14世纪乔治亚海岸移民事件的反应

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.22

Brandon T. Ritchison

{"title":"Local Responses to a Fourteenth-Century AD Immigration Event on the Georgia Coast","authors":"Brandon T. Ritchison","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2025.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2025.22","url":null,"abstract":"By the end of the fourteenth-century AD, Native peoples throughout the midwestern and southeastern regions of North America had withdrawn from major monumental and political centers established in prior centuries. In this article, I present the results of a community-level examination of settlement transformations on the Georgia Coast that I argue are the outcome of this large-scale movement of Mississippian peoples. Specifically, I examine the consequences of the depopulation of the Savannah River Valley, a case of a rapid, historically contingent Mississippian emigration beginning in the fourteenth century AD. My results establish how a large-scale immigration event affected community spatial and political organization and demonstrate that migrants and coastal locals engaged in the collective cultural construction of new identities and lifeways in response to the challenges of negotiating the use of common pool resources, such as fisheries and suitable farmland. Reconstructing the spatial organization of communities can help explain the demographic, economic, and political processes that undergird the cultural materialization of space. Although much remains to be learned about intra-settlement organization at post-Archaic, precolonial sites along the Georgia Coast, this investigation provides new information about the local, community-level spatial response to the fourteenth-century immigration event.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Variation of Early and Middle Holocene Earth Oven Technology in Wyoming and Implications for Forager Adaptations 怀俄明州全新世早期和中期地球烤箱技术的变化及其对觅食者适应的影响

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-08-29 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.3

Charles W. Koenig, Craig S. Smith, Lance M. McNees

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Ahatsistari as Ancient Carhagouha and the Dating of Seventeenth-Century Huron-Wendat Sites by Bayesian Modeling of Radiocarbon Dates and European Glass Trade Bead Chronologies Ahatsistari作为古代Carhagouha和17世纪休伦-温达特遗址的贝叶斯模型的放射性碳测年和欧洲玻璃贸易珠年表

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-08-29 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.24

Bonnie Glencross, James Conolly, Gary Warrick

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The Birnirk to Thule Transition as Viewed from Radiocarbon and Tree-Ring Dating within Two Adjacent Houses at Cape Espenberg, Northwest Alaska 从阿拉斯加西北部埃斯彭伯格角两个相邻房屋的放射性碳和树木年轮测年来看，Birnirk到Thule的过渡

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.21

Claire Alix, Lauren E. Y. Norman, Antony M. Krus, Juliette Taïeb, Shelby L. Anderson, Dennis H. O’Rourke, Owen K. Mason

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Achieving Equality: Why There Was Not as Much Inequality in Prehistoric Europe as We Imagine 《实现平等：为什么史前欧洲不像我们想象的那么不平等

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.19

John Robb

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A Datura Ritual Complex in the Mississippian Southeast 密西西比东南部的曼陀罗仪式建筑群

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-08-15 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2024.40

Adam King, David H. Dye, Bobi J. Deere, Terry G. Powis, Nilesh W. Gaikwad

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Waiting for Passage: Archaeological Silences and Narratives of Urban Slavery at 87 Church Street, Charleston 等待通过：查尔斯顿教堂街87号城市奴隶制的考古沉默和叙述

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-07-28 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.9

Sarah E. Platt

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Environmental Drivers of Wealth Inequality among Ancestral Puebloan Farmers in Bears Ears National Monument 熊耳国家纪念地普韦布洛族祖先农民财富不平等的环境驱动因素

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.8

Roxanne Lois F. Lamson, Kurt M. Wilson, Hayley T. Kievman, Kenneth Blake Vernon, Peter M. Yaworsky, Brian F. Codding

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Smoking Pipes as Indicators of Sociopolitical Changes in Huron-Wendat Social Networks 烟管作为休伦-温达特社会网络中社会政治变化的指标

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-06-23 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.1

John P. Hart, Jennifer Birch, Christan Gates St-Pierre, Susan Dermarkar

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