From the foreword:
"With this important volume, the editors serve notice that old
characterizations of the cultures of the Archaic period have been
buried under the back dirt of new excavations and new
interpretations. . . . It places the Archaic cultures squarely at
the forefront of archaeological theory."
This volume summarizes our archaeological knowledge of natives
who inhabited the American Southeast from 8,000 to 3,000 years ago
and examines evidence of many of the native cultural expressions
observed by early European explorers, including long-distance
exchange, plant domestication, mound building, social ranking, and
warfare.
Contents
Section I. Mid-Holocene Environments
1. Geoarchaeology and the Mid-Holocene Landscape History of the
Greater Southeast, by Joseph Schuldenrein
2. Mid-Holocene Forest History of Florida and the Coastal Plain
of Georgia and South Carolina, by William A. Watts, Eric C. Grimm,
and T. C. Hussey
Section II. Technology
3. Changing Strategies of Lithic Technological Organization, by
Daniel S. Amick and Philip J. Carr
4. Technological Innovations in Economic and Social Contexts, by
Kenneth E. Sassaman
5. Middle and Late Archaic Architecture, by Kenneth E. Sassaman
and R. Jerald Ledbetter
Section III. Subsistence and Health
6. The Paleoethnobotanical Record for the Mid-Holocene
Southeast, by Kristen J. Gremillion
7. Mid-Holocene Faunal Exploitation in the Southeastern United
States, by Bonnie W. Styles and Walter E. Klippel
8. Biocultural Inquiry into Archaic Period Populations of the
Southeast: Trauma and Occupational Stress, by Maria O. Smith
Section IV. Regional Settlement Variation
9. Approaches to Modeling Regional Settlement in the Archaic
Period Southeast, by David G. Anderson
10. Southeastern Mid-Holocene Coastal Settlements, by Michael
Russo
11. Accounting for Submerged Mid-Holocene Archaeological Sites
in the Southeast: A Case Study from the Chesapeake Bay Estuary,
Virginia, by Dennis B. Blanton
Section V. Regional Integration and Organization
12. The Emergence of Long-Distance Exchange Networks in the
Southeastern United States, by Richard W. Jefferies
13. A Consideration of the Social Organization of the Shell
Mound Archaic, by Cheryl P. Claassen
14. Southeastern Archaic Mounds, by Michael Russo
15. Poverty Point and Greater Southeastern Prehistory: The
Culture That Did Not Fit, by Jon L. Gibson
Kenneth E. Sassaman is archaeologist with the Savannah River
Archaeological Research Program, South Carolina Institute of
Archaeology and Anthropology, and instructor in the Department of
History and Anthropology at Augusta College, Augusta, Georgia. He
is the author of "Early Pottery in the Southeast: Tradition and
Innovation in Cooking Technology." David G. Anderson is
archaeologist with the Southeast Archaeological Center, National
Park Service, Tallahassee, Florida. He is the author of "The
Savannah River Chiefdoms: Political Change in the Late Prehistoric
Southeast." They are coeditors of "The Paleoindian and Early
Archaic Southeast."
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