ANTH 591U Southeastern US Prehistory

Required Readings

 

Anderson, David G.

     1994

Models of Paleoindian and Early Archaic Settlement in the Lower Southeast. In Paleoindian and Early Archaic Period Research in the Lower Southeast: A South Carolina Perspective, edited by David G. Anderson, Kenneth E. Sassaman, and Christopher Judge, pp. 28-47. COSCAPA, Columbia, SC.


Anderson, David G. and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr.

     2002

An Introduction to Woodland Archaeology in the Southeast. In The Woodland Southeast, edited by David G. Anderson and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., pp. 1-19. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.


Barker, Alex W.

     2002

Myths & Monsters: Decoding Ritual Images of a Mysterious Ancient American Religion. Archaeology July/August 2002: 40-45.


Begley, Sharon and Andrew Murr

     1999

The First Americans. Newsweek Apr. 26, 1999:50-57.


Blitz, John H.

     1993

Organizational Variability in Mississippian Societies. In Ancient Chiefdoms of the Tombigbee, by John H. Blitz, pp. 5-30. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.


Braun, David P.

     1986

Midwestern Hopewellian Exchane and Supralocal Interaction. In Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-Political Change, edited by Colin Renfrew and John F. Cherry, pp. 117-126. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.


Brown, James A.

     1986

Early Ceramics and Culture: A Review of Interpretations. In Early Woodland Archeology, edited by Kenneth B. Farnsworth and Thomas E. Emerson, pp. 598-608. Center for American Archeology Press, Kampsville, IL.


Chapman, Jefferson

     1985

Archaeology and the Archaic Period in the Southern Ridge-and-Valley Province. In Structure and Process in Southeastern Archaeology, edited by Roy S. Dickens, Jr. and H. Trawick Ward, pp. 137-153. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.


Claassen, Cheryl P.

     1996

Gender, Shellfishing, and the Shell Mound Archaic. In Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, edited by Joan M. Gero and Margaret W. Conkey, pp. 276-300. Basil Blackwell, Oxford.


Clay, R. Berle

     1998

The Essential Features of Adena Ritual and Their Implications. Southeastern Archaeology 17(1):1-21.


Cobb, Charles R. and Michael S. Nassaney

     2002

Dometicating Self and Society in the Woodland Southeast. In The Woodland Southeast, edited by David G. Anderson and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., pp. 525-539. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.


Gibson, Jon L.

     1996

Religion of the Rings: Poverty Point Iconology and Ceremonialism. In Mounds, Embankments, and Ceremonialism in the Midsouth, edited by Robert C. Mainfort and Richard Walling, pp. 1-6. Arkansas Archaeological Survey Research Series No. 46. Arkansas Archaeological Survey, Fayetteville, AR.


Goad, Sharon

     1979

Middle Woodland Exchange in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States. In Hopewell Archaeology: The Chillicothe Conference, edited by D. S. Brose and N. Greber, pp. 239-246. Kent State University Press, Kent, OH.


Gremillion, Kristen J.

     2002

The Development and Dispersal of Agricultural Systems in the Woodland Period Southeast. In The Woodland Southeast, edited by David G. Anderson and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., pp. 483-501. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.


Hally, David J.

     1996

Platform-Mound Construction and the Instability of Mississippian Chiefdoms. In Political Structure and Change in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States, edited by John F. Scarry, pp. 92-127. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.


Johannessen, Sissel

     1993

Farmers of the Late Woodland. In Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands, edited by C. Margaret Scarry, pp. 57-77. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.


JMC

     2001

The Topper Site: Beyond Clovis at Allendale. Mammoth Trumpet 16(4):10-15.


Knight, Vernon James, Jr.

     1986

The Institutional Organization of Mississippian Religion. American Antiquity 51(4):675-687.

     2001

Feasting and the Emergence of Platform Mound Ceremonialism in Eastern North America. In Feasts: Archaeological and Ethnographic Perspectives on Food, Politics, and Power, edited by Michael Dietler and Brian Hayden, pp. 311-333. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.


Knight, Vernon James, Jr., James A. Brown, and George E. Lankford

     2001

On the Subject Matter of Southeastern Ceremonial Complex Art. Southeastern Archaeology 29(10):129-141.


Lewis, R. Barry and Charles Stout

     1998

The Town as Metaphor. In Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces: Searching for an Architectural Grammar, edited by R. Barry Lewis and Charles Stout, pp. 227-241. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

Marshall, Eliot

     2001

Pre-Clovis Sites Fight for Acceptance. Science 291:1730-1732.


Meltzer, David J.

     1995

Clocking the First Americans. Annual Review of Anthropology 24:21-45.


Meltzer, David J. and Tom D. Dillehay

     1999

The Search for the Earliest Americans. Archaeology 52(1):60-61.


Milner, George R. and Sissel Schroeder

     1999

Mississippian Sociopolitical Systems. In Great Towns and Regional Polities in the Prehistoric American Southwest and Southeast, edited by Jill E. Neitzel, pp. 95-107. An Amerind Foundation Pubication, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.


Orser, Charles E., Jr. and Brian M. Fagan

     1995

Historical Archaeology. HarperCollins, NY. (Ethnicity, pp. 209-213; Class, Gender, Ethnicity, and Race, pp. 215-219.)


Russo, Michael

     1994a

Archaic Mounds in the Southeast. Southeastern Archaeology 13(2):89-93.

     1994b

Why We Don’t Believe in Archaic Ceremonial Mounds and Why We Should: The Case from Florida. Southeastern Archaeology 13(2):93-109.


Sassaman, Kenneth E.

     2002

Woodland Ceramic Beginnings. In The Woodland Southeast, edited by David G. Anderson and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., pp. 398-420. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.


Saunders, Rebecca

     1998

Forced Relocation, Power Relations, and Culture Contact in the Missions of La Florida. In Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology, edited by James G. Cusick, pp. 402-429. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.


Scarry, John F.

     1996

The Nature of Mississippian Societies. In Political Structure and Change in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States, edited by John F. Scarry, pp. 12-24. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.


Smith, Marvin T.

     1987

Archaeology of Aboriginal Culture Change in the Interior Southeast: Depopulation During the Early Historic Period. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.(Problems of Culture Change, pp. 1-6; Final Considerations and Future Research, pp. 143-147.)


Stephenson, Keith, Judith A. Bense, and Frankie Snow

     2000

Aspects of Deptford and Swift Creek of the South Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains. In The Woodland Southeast, edited by David G. Anderson and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., pp. 318-351. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.


Wagner, Gail E. and Jamie Civitello

     2000

Ancient Gardening in South Carolina, 10,000 B.C. to A.D. 1700.
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