Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma
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Brackett site
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Caddo Nation
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Eufala Mound
faunal remains
History of Archaeology
Huffaker site
Hughes site
landscape archaeology
Lillie Creek site
Mounds
National Park Service
Native Americans
New Deal Era
Norman site
Oklahoma
pipes
Precontact
Reed site
Rituals
Sam Noble Museum of Natural History
Skidgel Mound
southeastern archaeology
Spiro
Works Progress Administration
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- ISBN 9780817320256
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 27 Aug 2019
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Revisits and updates WPA-funded archaeological research on key Oklahoma mound sites.
As part of Great Depression relief projects started in the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) sponsored massive archaeological projects across Oklahoma. The WPA crews excavated eight mound sites and dozens of nonmound residential sites in the Arkansas River Valley that date between AD 1000 and 1450. These sites are considered the westernmost representations of Mississippian culture in the Southeast.
The results of these excavations were documented in field journals and photographs prepared by the field supervisors and submitted in a series of quarterly reports to WPA headquarters. These reports contain a wealth of unpublished information summarizing excavations at the mound sites and residential sites, including mound profiles, burial descriptions, house maps, artifact tables, and artifact sketches. Of the excavated mound sites, results from only one, Spiro, have been extensively studied and synthesized in academic literature. The seven additional WPA-excavated mound sites—Norman, Hughes, Brackett, Eufaula, Skidgel, Reed, and Lillie Creek—are known to archaeologists outside of Oklahoma only as unlabeled points on maps of mound sites in the Southeast.
The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma curates and contextualizes the results of the WPA excavations, showing how they inform archaeological understanding of Mississippian occupation in the Arkansas Valley. Regnier, Hammerstedt, and Savage also relate the history and experiences of practicing archaeology in the 1930s, incorporating colorful excerpts from field journals of the young, inexperienced archaeologists. Finally, the authors update current knowledge of mound and nonmound sites in the region, providing an excellent example of historical archaeology.
As part of Great Depression relief projects started in the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) sponsored massive archaeological projects across Oklahoma. The WPA crews excavated eight mound sites and dozens of nonmound residential sites in the Arkansas River Valley that date between AD 1000 and 1450. These sites are considered the westernmost representations of Mississippian culture in the Southeast.
The results of these excavations were documented in field journals and photographs prepared by the field supervisors and submitted in a series of quarterly reports to WPA headquarters. These reports contain a wealth of unpublished information summarizing excavations at the mound sites and residential sites, including mound profiles, burial descriptions, house maps, artifact tables, and artifact sketches. Of the excavated mound sites, results from only one, Spiro, have been extensively studied and synthesized in academic literature. The seven additional WPA-excavated mound sites—Norman, Hughes, Brackett, Eufaula, Skidgel, Reed, and Lillie Creek—are known to archaeologists outside of Oklahoma only as unlabeled points on maps of mound sites in the Southeast.
The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma curates and contextualizes the results of the WPA excavations, showing how they inform archaeological understanding of Mississippian occupation in the Arkansas Valley. Regnier, Hammerstedt, and Savage also relate the history and experiences of practicing archaeology in the 1930s, incorporating colorful excerpts from field journals of the young, inexperienced archaeologists. Finally, the authors update current knowledge of mound and nonmound sites in the region, providing an excellent example of historical archaeology.
Amanda L. Regnier is the director of the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Reconstructing Tascalusa's Chiefdom: Pottery Styles and the Social Composition of Late Mississippian Communities along the Alabama River.
Scott W. Hammerstedt is a senior researcher at the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey and affiliated faculty in the department of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He is also the codirector of the Spiro Landscape Archaeological Project, Le Flore County, Oklahoma.
Sheila Bobalik Savage is an affiliated researcher at the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey.
Scott W. Hammerstedt is a senior researcher at the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey and affiliated faculty in the department of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. He is also the codirector of the Spiro Landscape Archaeological Project, Le Flore County, Oklahoma.
Sheila Bobalik Savage is an affiliated researcher at the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey.
