This landmark volume provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the prehistory and archaeology of the Caddo peoples. The Caddos lived in the Southeastern Woodlands for more than 900 years beginning around AD 800–900, before being forced to relocate to Oklahoma in 1859. They left behind a spectacular archaeological record, including the famous Spiro Mound site in Oklahoma as well as many other mound centers, plazas, farmsteads, villages, and cemeteries.
The Archaeology of the Caddo examines new advances in studying the history of the Caddo peoples, including ceramic analysis, reconstructions of settlement and regional histories of different Caddo communities, Geographic Information Systems and geophysical landscape studies at several spatial scales, the cosmological significance of mound and structure placements, and better ways to understand mortuary practices. Findings from major sites and drainages such as the Crenshaw site, mounds in the Arkansas River basin, Spiro Mound, the Oak Hill Village site, the George C. Davis site, the Willow Chute Bayou Locality, the Hughes site, Big Cypress Creek basin, and the McClelland and Joe Clark sites are also summarized and interpreted. This volume reintroduces the Caddos' heritage, creativity, and political and religious complexity.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- 1. The Archaeology of the Caddo in Southwest Arkansas,Northwest Louisiana, Eastern Oklahoma, andEast Texas: An Introduction to the Volume
- 2. Form and Structure in Prehistoric Caddo Pottery Design
- 3. At the House of the Priest: Faunal Remains from theCrenshaw Site (3MI6), Southwest Arkansas
- 4. Bioarchaeological Evidence of Subsistence Strategiesamong the East Texas Caddo
- 5. Spiro Reconsidered: Sacred Economy at the WesternFrontier of the Eastern Woodlands
- 6. Viewshed Characteristics of Caddo Mounds in theArkansas Basin
- 7. Exploring Prehistoric Caddo Communities throughArchaeogeophysics
- 8. The Evolution of a Caddo Community inNortheast Texas
- 9. Settlement Patterns and Variation in Caddo PotteryDecoration: A Case Study of the Willow ChuteBayou Locality
- 10. Caddo in the Saline River Valley of Arkansas: TheBorderlands Project and the Hughes Site
- 11. Spatial Patterns of Caddo Mound Sites in the WestGulf Coastal Plain of Arkansas
- 12. Decisions in Landscape Setting Selection of thePrehistoric Caddo of Southeastern Oklahoma:A gis Analysis
- 13. The Character of Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-CenturyCaddo Communities in the Big Cypress Creek Basinof Northeast Texas
- 14. The Belcher Phase: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-CenturyCaddo Occupation of the Red River Valley in NorthwestLouisiana and Southwest Arkansas
- 15. The Terán Map and Caddo Cosmology
- References Cited
- Contributors
- Index
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