The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology
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The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology

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The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology

About this book

This volume uses case studies to capture the recent emphasis on history in archaeological reconstructions of America's deep past. Previously, archaeologists studying "prehistoric" America focused on long-term evolutionary change, imagining ancient societies like living organisms slowly adapting to environmental challenges. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how today's researchers are incorporating a new awareness that the precolonial era was also shaped by people responding to historical trends and forces.

Essays in this volume delve into sites across what is now the United States Southeast—the St. Johns River Valley, the Gulf Coast, Greater Cahokia, Fort Ancient, the southern Appalachians, and the Savannah River Valley. Prominent scholars of the region highlight the complex interplay of events, human decision-making, movements, and structural elements that combined to shape native societies. The research in this volume represents a profound shift in thinking about precolonial and colonial history and begins to erase the false divide between ancient and contemporary America.



Contributors: Susan M. Alt | Robin Beck | Eric E. Bowne | Robert A. Cook | Robbie Ethridge | Jon Bernard Marcoux | Timothy R. Pauketat | Thomas J. Pluckhahn | Asa R. Randall | Christopher B. Rodning | Kenneth E. Sassaman | Lynne P. Sullivan | Victor D. Thompson | Neill J. Wallis | John E. Worth

A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. THE HISTORICAL TURN IN SOUTHEASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Introduction: The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology
  10. 1. Deep Time on the Eternal River: Toward an Archaic Historicity of the St. Johns River
  11. 2. From Small Histories to Big History on the Woodland Period Gulf Coast
  12. 3. Histories of Greater Cahokian Assemblages
  13. 4. Becoming and Descending: Examining the Historical-Processual Continuum in American Archaeology along a Mississippian Periphery
  14. 5. An Archaeology of Native American Placemaking in the Southern Appalachians
  15. 6. Centering the Margins of “History”: Reading Material Narratives of Southeastern Indian Identity along the Edges of the Colonial Southeast (ca. 1650–1720)
  16. 7. “History,” “Prehistory,” and Landscapes of Practice
  17. Afterword: Continuing the Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology
  18. References Cited
  19. List of Contributors
  20. Index