The Archaeology of Traditions: Agency and History Before and After Columbus

369 Pages·2001·2.39 MB·English

by  Timothy R. Pauketat

The Archaeology of Traditions
The Ripley P. Bullen Series
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The Archaeology of Traditions
Agency and History Before and After Columbus
Edited by Timothy R. Pauketat
Foreword by Jerald T. Milanich, Series Editor
University Press of Florida
Gainesville · Tallahassee · Tampa · Boca Raton
Pensacola · Orlando · Miami · Jacksonville · Ft. Myers
Copyright 2001 by Timothy R. Pauketat
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The archaeology of traditions: agency and history before and after Colum-
bus / edited by Timothy R. Pauketat; foreword by Jerald T. Milanich.
p. cm. — (The Ripley P. Bullen series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8130-2112-X (alk. paper)
1. Indians of North America—Southern States—Antiquities. 2. Social ar-
chaeology—Southern States. 3. Southern States—Antiquities. I. Pauketat,
Timothy R. II. Series
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Dedicated to an earlier generation of hard-working archaeologists
who dug up history, tradition, and ethnicity, and who enjoyed the
hell out of it.
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Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables x
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
1. A New Tradition in Archaeology, by Timothy R. Pauketat 1
2. African-American Tradition and Community in
the Antebellum South, by Brian W. Thomas 17
3. Resistance and Accommodation in Apalachee Province,
by John F. Scarry 34
4. Manipulating Bodies and Emerging Traditions at
the Los Adaes Presidio, by Diana DiPaolo Loren 58
5. Negotiated Tradition? Native American Pottery in the Mission
Period in La Florida, by Rebecca Saunders 77
6. Creek and Pre-Creek Revisited, by Cameron B. Wesson 94
7. Gender, Tradition, and the Negotiation of Power Relationships
in Southern Appalachian Chiefdoms, by Lynne P. Sullivan and
Christopher B. Rodning 107
8. Historical Science or Silence? Toward a Historical Anthropology
of Mississippian Political Culture, by Mark A. Rees 121
9. Cahokian Change and the Authority of Tradition, by Susan
M. Alt 141
10. The Historical-Processual Development of Late Woodland
Societies, by Michael S. Nassaney 157
11. A Tradition of Discontinuity: American Bottom Early and Middle
Woodland Culture History Reexamined, by Andrew C. Fortier 174
12. Interpreting Discontinuity and Historical Process in Midcontinental
Late Archaic and Early Woodland Societies, by Thomas E.
Emerson and Dale L. McElrath 195
13. Hunter-Gatherers and Traditions of Resistance, by Kenneth E.
Sassaman 218
14. Traditions as Cultural Production: Implications for Contemporary
Archaeological Research, by Kent G. Lightfoot 237
15. Concluding Thoughts on Tradition, History, and Archaeology,
by Timothy R. Pauketat 253
Bibliography 257
List of Contributors 337
Index 343
Figures
1.1. Locator map 2
1.2. Pre-Columbian pottery bottle from Arkansas 7
1.3. Wall-trench building floor, ca. a.d. 1100, southwestern Illinois 9
1.4. Plains Indian pow-wow dance ground 11
1.5. Positions taken by volume authors along the tradition-building
continuum 14
2.1. Purse clasp found at slave cabin site at the Hermitage 22
2.2. Gold 1853 U.S. dollar recovered at slave cabin site 23
2.3. Map of the Hermitage Plantation showing slave housing areas 31
4.1. De Español y Morisca, Albino, ca. 1760–1770 65
4.2. De Indio y Mestiza, Coyote, ca. 1760–1770 65
5.1. Location of Native American groups and missions, ca. 1660 80
5.2. Design motifs 83
7.1. Selected archaeological sites in the greater southern Appalachians
113
7.2. Archaeological map, Overhill Cherokee settlement, a.d.
1700–1800 116
7.3. Archaeological map, Coweeta Creek site, a.d. 1600–1700 117
8.1. Winged-serpent motif on a Moundville engraved bottle 135
8.2. Fish effigy vessel from the Campbell site 137
9.1. Select sites within the greater Cahokia region 142
9.2. Upland Mississippian site plans 147
9.3. Comparison of structure type and size 148
9.4. Selected vessel type mean-diameter sizes 152
10.1.Distribution of Baytown–Coles Creek Period sites by type 165
10.2.Rank-size relation of Baytown–Coles Creek period sites 167
11.1.Revised time scale for the Early and Late Woodland periods of the
American Bottom 179
11.2.Early Woodland ceramic traditions 181
11.3.Middle Woodland bifacial chert tool assemblage 184
11.4.Middle Woodland blade tool tradition 185
11.5.Middle Woodland ceramic design formats 191