Structure and process in southeastern archaeology

708 Pages·1985·5.28 MB·English

by  Roy S. Dickens

Structure and Process in Southeastern
title:
Archaeology
author: Dickens, Roy S.
publisher: University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin: 0817302166
print isbn13: 9780817302160
ebook isbn13: 9780585329253
language: English
Indians of North America--Southern States-
-Antiquities, Excavations (Archaeology)--
subject
Southern States, Southern States--
Antiquities.
publication date: 1985
lcc: E78.S65S77 1985eb
ddc: 975/.01
Indians of North America--Southern States-
-Antiquities, Excavations (Archaeology)--
subject:
Southern States, Southern States--
Antiquities.
Page i
Structure and Process in Southeastern
Archaeology
Page ii
Joffre Lanning Coe
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Structure and Process in Southeastern
Archaeology
Edited by
Roy S. Dickens, Jr. and H. Trawick Ward
A DAN JOSSELYN MEMORIAL PUBLICATION
WITH AN EPILOGUE BY
James B. Griffin
Page iv
Copyright © 1985 by
The University of Alabama Press
University, Alabama 35486
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Structure and process in southeastern archaeology.
Includes index.
1. Indians of North AmericaSouthern States
AntiquitiesAddresses, essays, lectures. 2. Excavations
(Archaeology)Southern StatesAddresses, essays, lec-
tures. 3. Southern StatesAntiquitiesAddresses,
essays, lectures. I. Dickens, Roy S., 1938- .
II. Ward, H. Trawick, 1944- .
E78.S65S77 1985 975'.01 84-23
ISBN 0-8173-0216-6
Page v
To
Joffre Lanning Coe
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CONTENTS
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvi
Introduction 1
Roy S. Dickens, Jr. and H. Trawick Ward
Section I: Intrasite Structure and Formation Processes 9
1. Formation Processes for the Practical Prehistorian: An 11
Example from the Southeast
J. Jefferson Reid
2. The Form, Function, and Formation of Garbage-filled 34
Pits on Southeastern Aboriginal Sites: An
Archaeobotanical Analysis
Roy S. Dickens, Jr.
3. Feature Zones and Feature Fill: More Than Trash 60
Jack H. Wilson, Jr.
4. Social Implications of Storage and Disposal Patterns 82
H. Trawick Ward
5. The Form and Function of South Carolina's Early 102
Woodland Shell Rings
Michael B. Trinkley
6. A New Way of Looking at Old Holes: Methods for 119
Excavating and Interpreting Timber Structures
Alexander H. Morrison II
Section II: Intersite Comparisons and Regional 135
Chronology
7. Archaeology and the Archaic Period in the Southern 137
Ridge-and-Valley Province
Jefferson Chapman
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8. Intersite Assemblage Variability in the Lower Little 154
Tennessee River Valley: Exploring Extinct Settlement
Systems Through Probabilistic Sampling
R.P. stephen davis, Jr.
9. Lithic Scatters in the South Carolina Piedmont 180
Veletta Canouts and Albert C. Goodyear III
10. Tradition and Typology: Basic Elements of the 195
Carolina Projectile Point Sequence
Billy L. Oliver
11. Model and Sequence in the Maryland Archaic 212
Kit W. Wesler
12. Spheres of Cultural Interaction across the Coastal 229
Plain of Virginia in the Woodland Period
Keith T. Egloff
13. Early Hopewellian Ceremonial Encampments in the 243
South Appalachian Highlands
John A. Walthall
14. Deep Water and High Ground: Seventeenth-Century 263
Settlement Patterns on the Carolina Coast
Stanley South and Michael O. Hartley
Epilogue: Joffre Lanning Coe: The Quiet Giant of 287
Southeastern Archaeology
James B. Griffin
Bibliography 305
Contributors 335
Index 337