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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"--
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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
Woodland culture --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Ohio River Valley --- Antiquities
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Indians of North America --- Woodland culture --- Moccasin Bluff Site (Mich.) --- Michigan
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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.
Woodland culture --- Adena culture --- Mound-builders --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Southern States --- Antiquities.
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Indians of North America --- Woodland culture --- Antiquities. --- Gratiot County (Mich.) --- Michigan --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities.
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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
Woodland culture --- Indians of North America --- Woodland period, ca. 1000 B.C.-ca. 1000 A.D. --- Mound-builders --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Southern States
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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"--
Social archaeology --- Material culture --- Indians of North America --- Military trophies --- Burial --- Human remains (Archaeology) --- Bones --- Woodland culture --- History --- Warfare --- Funeral customs and rites --- Social aspects --- Middle West --- Antiquities.
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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
Woodland culture --- Indian pottery --- Pottery craft --- Indians of North America --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Social archaeology --- History. --- Antiquities. --- Atlantic Coast (N.C.) --- North Carolina
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Woodland culture. --- Indians of North America --- Indians of North America --- Indians of North America --- Implements --- Funeral customs and rites --- Commerce --- East (U.S.) --- Antiquities.
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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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