Archaeology of the Lower Muskogee Creek Indians, 1715-1836
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Alabama history
american indians
archaeology
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ceramics
ceremonial complex
climate
colonization
creek indians
Early Archaic
Eastern United States
environment
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excavations
farming
fauna
fishing
geology
habitats
hunting
indigenous peoples
indigenous rebellions
Indigenous societies
material culture
Middle Archaic
Middle Woodland
migration
mounds
native americans
Paleoindians
plants
Pleistocene
pottery
projectile points
public archaeology
settlement
shell middens
shellfish
southeastern archaeology
southeastern Native Americans
subsistence
violence
warfare
water transportation
white settlers
Woodland cultures
Woodland period
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- ISBN 9780817353650
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 163 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jan 2007
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Muskogee Indians who lived along the lower Chattahoochee and Flint River watersheds had, and continue to have, a profound influence on the development of the southeastern United States, especially during the historic period (circa 1540-1836). Our knowledge of that culture is limited to what we can learn from their descendants and from archaeological and historical sources. Combining historical documents and archaeological research on all known Lower Muskogee Creek sites, Thomas Foster has accurately pinpointed town locations discussed in the literature and reported in contemporary Creek oral histories. In so doing, this volume synthesizes the archaeological diversity and variation within the Lower Creek Indians between 1715 and 1836. The book is a study of archaeological methods because it analyzes the temporal and geographic variation within a single archaeological phase and the biases of that archaeological data. Foster's research segregates the variation between Lower Creek Indian towns through a regional and direct historic approach. Consequently, he is able to discern the unique differences between individual Creek Indian towns. Foster argues that the study of Creek Indian history should be at the level of towns instead of archaeological phases and that there is significant continuity between the culture of the Historic Period Indians and the Prehistoric and Protohistoric peoples.
H. Thomas Foster II, a specialist in archaeology and human ecology, is Lecturer of Anthropology at Northern Kentucky University and editor of The Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796-1810. Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund is a specialist in archaeobotanical analysis at Alma College. Lisa O'Steen is a specialist in zooarchaeological analysis at Wildcat Ridge, Watkinsville, Georgia.
