New Histories of Village Life at Crystal River
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Archaeology
Author_Thomas J. Pluckhahn
Author_Victor D. Thompson
Bayesian modelling
Caloosahatchee traditions
Case studies
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Cities and towns
Citrus County
Collective action
Competition
Complex hunter gatherer
Cooperation
Early village societies
early villages
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Excavations
fishers
Florida
Ground penetrating radar
Growth
Gulf Coast
historical process
History
Hopewell
Hopewell culture
Late Woodland period
Medieval Warm period
Mississippian period
Resistivity survey
Ritual specialists
Shallow geophysical survey
Vacant ceremonial center
Woodland period
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- ISBN 9781683400356
- Weight: 563g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 May 2018
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This volume explores how native peoples of the Southeastern United States cooperated to form large and permanent early villages, using the site of Crystal River on Florida's Gulf Coast as a case study.
Crystal River was once among the most celebrated sites of the Woodland period (ca. 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1000), consisting of ten mounds and large numbers of diverse artifacts from the Hopewell culture. But a lack of research using contemporary methods at this site and nearby Roberts Island limited a full understanding of what these sites could tell scholars. Thomas Pluckhahn and Victor Thompson reanalyze previous excavations and conduct new field investigations to tell the whole story of Crystal River from its beginnings as a ceremonial center, through its growth into a large village, to its decline at the turn of the first millennium while Roberts Island and other nearby areas thrived.
Comparing this community to similar sites on the Gulf Coast and in other areas of the world, Pluckhahn and Thompson argue that Crystal River is an example of an ""early village society."" They illustrate that these early villages present important evidence in a larger debate regarding the role of competition versus cooperation in the development of human societies.
Crystal River was once among the most celebrated sites of the Woodland period (ca. 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1000), consisting of ten mounds and large numbers of diverse artifacts from the Hopewell culture. But a lack of research using contemporary methods at this site and nearby Roberts Island limited a full understanding of what these sites could tell scholars. Thomas Pluckhahn and Victor Thompson reanalyze previous excavations and conduct new field investigations to tell the whole story of Crystal River from its beginnings as a ceremonial center, through its growth into a large village, to its decline at the turn of the first millennium while Roberts Island and other nearby areas thrived.
Comparing this community to similar sites on the Gulf Coast and in other areas of the world, Pluckhahn and Thompson argue that Crystal River is an example of an ""early village society."" They illustrate that these early villages present important evidence in a larger debate regarding the role of competition versus cooperation in the development of human societies.
Thomas J. Pluckhahn, professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida, is the author of Kolomoki: Settlement, Ceremony, and Status in the Deep South, A.D. 350 to 750.
Victor D. Thompson, professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia, is coeditor of The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies.
Victor D. Thompson, professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia, is coeditor of The Archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies.
