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The real mound builders of North America
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ISBN: 1498570631 9781498570633 9781498570626 9781498570640 Year: 2018 Publisher: Lanham

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"The Real Mound Builders of North America contrasts the dominant evolutionary view that emphasizes abrupt discontinuities with the Hopewellian ceremonial assemblage and mounds. Byers argues that these communities persisted largely unchanged in terms of their essential social structures and cultural traditions while varying only in terms of ceremonial practices and their associated sodality organizations that manifested these deep structures"--

Woodland period systematics in the Middle Ohio Valley
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ISBN: 0817383069 9780817383060 0817314652 9780817314651 0817352376 9780817352370 Year: 2005 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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This collection provides a comprehensive vocabulary for defining the cultural manifestation of the term "Woodland." The Middle Ohio Valley is an archaeologically rich region that stretches from southeastern Indiana, across southern Ohio and northeastern Kentucky, and into northwestern West Virginia. In this area are some of the most spectacular and diverse Woodland Period archaeological sites in North America, but these sites and their rich cultural remains do not fit easily into the traditional Southeastern classification system. This volume, with contributions by


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The Moccasin Bluff site and the Woodland cultures of southwestern Michigan
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Year: 1973 Publisher: Ann Arbor (Mich.): University of Michigan press,

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Early and middle woodland landscapes of the Southeast
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ISBN: 0813046149 0813048478 9780813048475 9781299864948 1299864945 9780813044606 081304460X Year: 2013 Publisher: Gainesville

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Integrates empirical data with social structural notions such as persistent, ritual, cultural, and social places, striving to explore the totality of landscape experiences across temporal and spatial spaces in the American Southeast.


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Two terminal archaic/early woodland sites in central Michigan
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ISBN: 1951538269 Year: 1991 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan,

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The Woodland Southeast
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ISBN: 0817313176 9780817313173 0817311378 9780817311377 0817311378 9780817311377 Year: 2002 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research over the past 25 years. Researchers have learned that in this approximately 2000-year era the peoples of the Southeast experienced increasing sedentism, population growth, and organizational complexity. At the beginning of the period, people are assumed to have been living


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Transforming the dead
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ISBN: 0817388095 9780817388096 9780817318611 0817318615 Year: 2015 Publisher: Tuscaloosa The University Alabama Press

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"Transforming the Dead, is a collection of essays that examines culturally modified human bones and their roles as 'cultural and ritual objects' among prehistoric Eastern Woodland cultures. Previous scholarship has explored the role of human body parts in Native American cultures as trophies of war and revered ancestors. This collection discusses new evidence that human elements were also important components of daily and ritual activities across the Eastern Woodlands. The contributors to this volume discuss each case study within the unique regional and temporal contexts of the material, rather than seeking universal answers to how these objects were used. Most research addressing modified human bone has focused on cut marks and trauma associated with warfare, trophy taking, and burial practices. The editors and contributors of Transforming the Dead document the varied and often overlooked ways that human bone was intentionally modified through drilling, incising, cutting, and polishing for utilitarian, ornamental, spiritual, or ritual use. Examples include bracelets and gorgets to be worn, as well as musical rasps, pipe stems, masks, and protective talismans. The form and function of these objects are not unusual; their construction from the remains of 'another' sets them apart. Through a flexible but systematic analysis of the archaeological record, the contributors bring into focus how the careful selection, modification, and retention of particular bones or body parts of an individual after death offer insights into concepts of personhood, the body, life, and death among the prehistoric Native Americans in the Midwest"--


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Woodland potters and archaeological ceramics of the North Carolina coast
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ISBN: 0817381198 9780817381196 0817316388 9780817316389 0817355170 9780817355173 9780817316389 9780817355173 9780817381196 Year: 2010 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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The first comprehensive study of the meaning of pottery as a social activity in coastal North Carolina.Pottery types, composed of specific sets of attributes, have long been defined for various periods and areas of the Atlantic coast, but their relationships and meanings have not been explicitly examined. In exploring these relationships for the North Carolina coast, this work examines the manner in which pottery traits cross-cut taxonomic types, tests the proposition that communities of practice existed at several scales, and questions the fundamental notion of ceramic typ


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Structure and regional diversity of the Meadowood interaction sphere
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ISBN: 1951519787 Year: 2011 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan,

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Kolomoki
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ISBN: 0817382224 9780817382223 0817312994 0817350179 9780817312992 9780817350178 Year: 2003 Publisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press

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The first comprehensive and systematic investigation of a Woodland period ceremonial center. Kolomoki, one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the southeastern United States, includes at least nine large earthen mounds in the lower Chattahoochee River valley of southwest Georgia. The largest, Mound A, rises approximately 20 meters above the terrace that borders it. From its flat-topped summit, a visitor can survey the string of smaller mounds that form an arc to the south and west. Archaeological research had previously placed Kolomoki within the Mississippian period (ca. a.d. 1000-

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