Archaeology of Arcuate Communities
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A01=Aaron R. Comstock
A01=Analise Hollingshead
A01=Bernard K. Means
A01=Megan C. Kassabaum
A01=Robert A. Cook
A01=Steven L. De Vore
A01=William Green
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American Indians
Archaeology
Archaic period
architecture
arcuate communities
Author_Aaron R. Comstock
Author_Analise Hollingshead
Author_Bernard K. Means
Author_Megan C. Kassabaum
Author_Robert A. Cook
Author_Steven L. De Vore
Author_William Green
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B01=Haley Messer
B01=Martin Menz
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ceramic assemblages
ceremonies
Chickasaws
circles
coastal Southeast
Coles Creek
community organization
complex societies
conflict
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cultural resource management
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Eastern Woodlands
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ethnography
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Feltus
Florida
geometric patterning
Georgia
Hartford site
house platforms
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hunter-gatherers
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous settlements
Kolomoki
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lithics
Louisiana
Lower Mississippi Valley
Magnolia Phase
Marksville cultures
middens
Middle Woodland period
Mississippian period
moieties
Monongahela Tradition
monumental villages
mounds
Native Americans
North America
Ohio River Valley
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Paleoindian period
Plaquemine Cultures
plazas
political dynamics
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ring middens
ritual performances
sacred spaces
shell-bearing middens
social dynamics
social units
softlaunch
spatial organization
Swift Creek
trash
villages
Watson Brake
wealth and status inequalities
Weeden Island ceramic style
women potters
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Product details
- ISBN 9780817321970
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jun 2024
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities is an edited collection of ten essays that illuminate how Indigenous communities of the Eastern Woodlands, from 10,000 BC to the 1550s, are analyzed and interpreted by archaeologists today. Volume editors Martin Menz, Analise Hollingshead, and Haley Messer define the persistent circular or “arcuate” pattern of Native settlements in this region as a spatial manifestation of community activities that reinforced group identity alongside plazas, mounds, and other architectural features.
The varied case studies in this volume focus on specific communities, how they evolved, and the types of archaeological data that have been used to assess them. Part I, “Defining the Domestic Unit in Arcuate Communities,” reveals social distinctions between households and household clusters in arcuate communities, how they differ in terms of stylistic patterns and exchange, and how they combined to form distinct social groups at different scales within a broader community. Part II, “Organizing Principles of Arcuate Communities,” broadens the scope to identify the organizing principles of entire arcuate communities, such as the central role of plazas in structuring their development, how the distribution of households and central features within communities was contested and reorganized, and the importance of mounds in both delineating arcuate communities and marking their position on the landscape. Part III, “Comparison and Change in Arcuate Communities,” comprises case studies that examine changes in the organization of arcuate communities over time. Rounding out the volume is a concluding chapter that assesses how and why communities around the world formed in circular patterns.
A valuable resource for archaeologists, this collection will also be of interest to those seeking to learn about Native North American settlement, ceremony, and community organization.
The varied case studies in this volume focus on specific communities, how they evolved, and the types of archaeological data that have been used to assess them. Part I, “Defining the Domestic Unit in Arcuate Communities,” reveals social distinctions between households and household clusters in arcuate communities, how they differ in terms of stylistic patterns and exchange, and how they combined to form distinct social groups at different scales within a broader community. Part II, “Organizing Principles of Arcuate Communities,” broadens the scope to identify the organizing principles of entire arcuate communities, such as the central role of plazas in structuring their development, how the distribution of households and central features within communities was contested and reorganized, and the importance of mounds in both delineating arcuate communities and marking their position on the landscape. Part III, “Comparison and Change in Arcuate Communities,” comprises case studies that examine changes in the organization of arcuate communities over time. Rounding out the volume is a concluding chapter that assesses how and why communities around the world formed in circular patterns.
A valuable resource for archaeologists, this collection will also be of interest to those seeking to learn about Native North American settlement, ceremony, and community organization.
Martin Menz is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of Michigan.
Annalise Hollingshead is a cultural resource management archaeologist with SWCA Environmental Consultants, San Antonio, Texas.
Haley Messer is an archaeologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Annalise Hollingshead is a cultural resource management archaeologist with SWCA Environmental Consultants, San Antonio, Texas.
Haley Messer is an archaeologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
