Architectural Variability in the Southeast
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american indians
archaeology
artifacts
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ceramics
ceremonial center
ceremonial complex
climate
Early Archaic
Eastern United States
Eastern Woodlands
environment
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excavations
farming
fauna
fishing
geology
habitats
housing
hunting
indigenous peoples
Indigenous societies
living spaces
lodging
material culture
middens
Middle Archaic
Middle Woodland
migration
Mississippian cultures
mound building
Mounds
native americans
north america
Paleoindians
plants
Pleistocene
pottery
precolombian
projectile points
public archaeology
settlement
shell middens
shellfish
southeastern archaeology
subsistence
violence
warfare
water transportation
Woodland period
Product details
- ISBN 9780817354596
- Weight: 390g
- Dimensions: 166 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2007
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Some of the most visible expressions of human culture are illustrated architecturally. Unfortunately for archaeologists, the architecture being studied is not always visible and must be inferred from soil inconsistencies or charred remains. This study deals with research into roughly a millennium of Native American architecture in the Southeast and includes research on the variation of construction techniques employed both above and below ground. Most of the architecture discussed is that of domestic houses with some emphasis on large public buildings and sweat lodges. The authors use an array of methods and techniques in examining native architecture including experimental archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnography, multi-variant analysis, structural engineering, and wood science technology. A major portion of the work, and probably the most important in terms of overall significance, is that it addresses the debate of early Mississippian houses and what they looked like above ground and the changes that occurred both before and after the arrival of Europeans. Contributors: Dennis B. Blanton Tamira K. Brennan Ramie A. Gougeon Tom H. Gresham Vernon J. Knight Jr. Cameron H. Lacquement Robert H. Lafferty, III Mark A. McConaughy Nelson A. Reed Robert J. Scott Lynne P. Sullivan
Cameron H. Lacquement is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology, The University of Alabama.
