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  • The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities

    Spatial Patterning and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands

    by Martin Menz, Analise Hollingshead, Haley Messer, Aaron R. Comstock, Robert A. Cook, Steven L. De Vore, William Green, Megan C. Kassabaum0, Bernard K. Means1, Jayur Mehta2, John W. O'Hear3, Thomas J. Pluckhahn4, Michael Russo5, Marcus A. Schulenburg6, Jeffrey Shanks7, Tara Skipton8, Karen Y. Smith9, Frankie Snow0, Keith Stephenson1, Vincas P. Steponaitis2, Neill J. Wallis3, Shaun E. West4, Adam S. Wiewel5 ...
    Series series Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives
    A comparative archaeological synthesis examining the spatial, social, and ceremonial logics underpinning circular community formations across the Eastern Woodlands from 10,000 BC to the sixteenth century.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 ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Following the Mississippian Spread

    Climate Change and Migration in the Eastern US (ca. AD 1000-1600)

    Edited by Robert A. Cook, Aaron R. Comstock ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is the first to specifically trace the movement of Mississippian maize farmers throughout the US Midwest and Southeast. By providing a backdrop of shifting climatic conditions during the period, this volume also investigates the relationship between farmers and their environments. Detailed regional overviews of key locations in the Mississippi Valley, the Ohio Valley, and the peripheries ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Continuity and Change in the Native American Village

    Multicultural Origins and Descendants of the Fort Ancient Culture

    by Robert A. Cook ...
    Two common questions asked in archaeological investigations are: where did a particular culture come from, and which living cultures is it related to? In this book, Robert A. Cook brings a theoretically and methodologically holistic perspective to his study on the origins and continuity of Native American villages in the North American Midcontinent. He shows that to affiliate archaeological ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • SunWatch

    Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World

    by Robert A. Cook ...
    Focuses on the development of village social structure within a broad geographic and temporal framework, recognizing border areas as particularly dynamic contexts of social changeThe last prehistoric cultures to inhabit the Middle Ohio Valley (ca. A.D. 1000–1650) are referred to as Fort Ancient societies, which exhibited a wide variety of Mississippian period characteristics. What is less well ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Moundbuilders: Ancient Societies of Eastern North America (Second)

    by George R. Milner ...
    Brought up to date with the latest research, The Moundbuilders is the definitive visual guide to North America’s eastern region and the societies that forever changed its landscape.Hailed by Bruce D. Smith, curator of North American archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution, as “without question the best available book on the pre-Columbian . . . societies of eastern North America,” this wide ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Handbook of Landscape Archaeology

    Edited by Bruno David, Julian Thomas ...
    Over the past three decades, “landscape” has become an umbrella term to describe many different strands of archaeology. From the processualist study of settlement patterns to the phenomenologist’s experience of the natural world, from human impact on past environments to the environment’s impact on human thought, action, and interaction, the term has been used. In this volume, for the first time, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Eastern Archaic, Historicized

    by Kenneth E. Sassaman ...
    Series series Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology
    The Eastern Archaic, Historicized offers an alternative perspective on the genesis and transformation of cultural diversity over eight millennia of hunter-gatherer dwelling in eastern North America. For many decades, archaeological understanding of Archaic diversity has been dominated by perspectives that emphasize localized relationships between humans and environment. The evidence, shows, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Arrowheads and Spear Points in the Prehistoric Southeast

    A Guide to Understanding Cultural Artifacts

    by Linda Crawford Culberson ...
    The Native American tribes of what is now the Southeastern United States left intriguing relics of their ancient cultural life. Arrowheads, spearpoints, stone tools, and other artifacts are found in newly plowed fields, on hillsides after a fresh rain, or in washed-out creekbeds. These are tangible clues to the anthropology of the Paleo-Indians, and the highly developed Mississippian peoples.This ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Knowledge in Motion

    Constellations of Learning Across Time and Place

    Edited by Andrew P. Roddick, Ann B. Stahl ...
    Series series Amerind Studies in Archaeology
    Spirit mediums of East Africa. Healers and fishermen of the Amazon River Basin. Potters of the American Southwest. People contending with climate change long ago. All share “knowledge in motion,” a process of drawing on experiences past and present while engaging in daily practice in relation to contexts of time, place, and power.In the last twenty-five years, scholars from a number of disciplines ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Cahokia and the North American Worlds

    by Sarah E. Baires ...
    Series series Elements in the Global Middle Ages
    The City of Cahokia provides a unique case study to review what draws people to a place and why. This Element examines not only the emergence and decline of this great American city but its intersection with the broader Native American world during this period. Cahokia was not an isolated complex but a place vivid on the landscape where people made pilgrimages to and from Cahokia for trade and ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Archaeology of the Mississippian Culture

    A Research Guide

    by Peter N. Peregrine ...
    First published in 1996. In recent years there has been a general increase of scholarly and popular interest in the study of ancient civilizations. Yet, because archaeologists and other scholars tend to approach their study of ancient peoples and places almost exclusively from their own disciplinary perspectives, there has long been a lack of general bibliographic and other research resources ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Prehistory of North America

    by Mark Sutton ...
    A Prehistory of North America covers the ever-evolving understanding of the prehistory of North America, from its initial colonization, through the development of complex societies, and up to contact with Europeans.This book is the most up-to-date treatment of the prehistory of North America. In addition, it is organized by culture area in order to serve as a companion volume to “An Introduction ... Read more

    $110.99 USD