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Isotopic Investigations Of Archaic Period Subsistence And Settlement In The St Johns River Drainage Florida
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Book Synopsis Isotopic Investigations of Archaic Period Subsistence and Settlement in the St. Johns River Drainage, Florida by : Bryan Duane Tucker
Download or read book Isotopic Investigations of Archaic Period Subsistence and Settlement in the St. Johns River Drainage, Florida written by Bryan Duane Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, these results are considered as a whole and their implications for archaeological models of the region are discussed. The data suggest a dietary regime which included a summer use of coastal foods was in place as early as ca. 8000 BP and changed little over the next 5000 years. Despite the presence of large freshwater shell mounds, freshwater shellfish did not constitute a large portion of the annual diet which suggests the appearance of shell mounds during the Middle Archaic was not a result of a dietary shift. Furthermore, the presence of extra local individuals in these mounds suggests the mounds were not territorial markers for local groups of isolated hunter-gatherers; rather the mounds provided a place for contact between different groups in a wider network of socially connected groups.
Book Synopsis The Eastern Archaic, Historicized by : Kenneth E. Sassaman
Download or read book The Eastern Archaic, Historicized written by Kenneth E. Sassaman and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, however that Archaic people routinely associated with other groups throughout eastern North America and expressed themselves materially in ways that reveal historical links to other places and times. Starting with the colonization of eastern North America by two distinct ancestral lines, the Eastern Archaic was an era of migrations, ethnogenesis, and coalescence—an 8,200-year era of making histories through interactions and expressing them culturally in ritual and performance.
Book Synopsis Constructing Histories by : Asa R. Randall
Download or read book Constructing Histories written by Asa R. Randall and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large accumulations of ancient shells on coastlines and riverbanks were long considered the result of garbage disposal during repeated food gatherings by early inhabitants of the southeastern United States. In this volume, Asa R. Randall presents the first new theoretical framework for examining such middens since Ripley Bullen’s seminal work sixty years ago. He convincingly posits that these ancient “garbage dumps” were actually burial mounds, ceremonial gathering places, and often habitation spaces central to the histories and social geography of the hunter-gatherer societies who built them. Synthesizing more than 150 years of shell mound investigations and modern remote sensing data, Randall rejects the long-standing ecological interpretation and redefines these sites as socially significant monuments that reveal previously unknown complexities about the hunter-gatherer societies of the Mount Taylor period (ca. 7400–4600 cal. B.P.). Affected by climate change and increased scales of social interaction, the region’s inhabitants modified the landscape in surprising and meaningful ways. This pioneering volume presents an alternate history from which emerge rich details about the daily activities, ceremonies, and burial rituals of the archaic St. Johns River cultures.
Book Synopsis Gathering at Silver Glen by : Gilmore, Zackary I
Download or read book Gathering at Silver Glen written by Gilmore, Zackary I and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadening our understanding of southeastern hunter-gatherers who lived between 4600 and 3500 BP, Zackary Gilmore presents evidence that the Late Archaic community of Silver Glen--one of Florida’s most elaborate shell mound complexes--integrated people and places from throughout Florida by staging large-scale feasts and other public events. Gilmore analyzes the composition and style of pottery at the site, revealing that many of the large, elaborately decorated vessels from the shell mounds were imports with nonlocal origins. His findings indicate that the people of Silver Glen frequently hosted large-scale gatherings that helped to create a sense of community among culturally diverse groups with homelands separated by hundreds of kilometers. The history of Florida’s Late Archaic hunter-gatherers is shown here to be much more dynamic than traditionally thought.
Book Synopsis Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process by : Kenneth E. Sassaman
Download or read book Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process written by Kenneth E. Sassaman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remains of hunter-gatherer groups are the most commonly discovered archaeological resources in the world, and their study constitutes much of the archaeological research done in North America. In spite of paradigm-shifting discoveries elsewhere in the world that may indicate that hunter-gatherer societies were more complex than simple remnants of a prehistoric past, North American archaeology by and large hasn’t embraced these theories, instead maintaining its general neoevolutionary track. This book will change that. Combining the latest empirical studies of archaeological practice with the latest conceptual tools of anthropological and historical theory, this volume seeks to set a new course for hunter-gatherer archaeology by organizing the chapters around three themes. The first section offers diverse views of the role of human agency, challenging the premise that hunter-gatherer societies were bound by their interactions with the natural world. The second section considers how society and culture are constituted. Chapters in the final section take the long view of the historical process, examining how cultural diversity arises out of interaction and the continuity of ritual practices. A closing commentary by H. Martin Wobst underscores the promise of an archaeology of foragers that does not associate foraging with any particular ideology or social structure but instead invites inquiry into counterintuitive alternatives. Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process seeks to blur the divisions between prehistory and history, between primitive and modern, and between hunter-gatherers and people in other societies. Because it offers alternatives to the dominant discourse and contributes to the agenda of hunter-gatherer research, this book will be of interest to anyone involved in the study of foraging peoples.
Book Synopsis Recent Developments in Southeastern Archaeology by : David G. Anderson
Download or read book Recent Developments in Southeastern Archaeology written by David G. Anderson and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series represents a period-by-period synthesis of southeastern prehistory designed for high school and college students, avocational archaeologists, and interested members of the general public. It also serves as a basic reference for professional archaeologists worldwide on the record of a remarkable region.
Book Synopsis Investigating the Ordinary by : Sarah E. Price
Download or read book Investigating the Ordinary written by Sarah E. Price and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Makes the case that the everyday should and does matter in archaeology. The content is fresh, the approaches are varied, and the case is convincing."--Adam King, editor of Archaeology in South Carolina: Exploring the Hidden Heritage of the Palmetto State Focusing on the daily concerns and routine events of people in the past, Investigating the Ordinary argues for a paradigm shift in the way southeastern archaeologists operate. Instead of dividing archaeological work by time periods or artifact types, the essays in this volume unite separate areas of research through the theme of the everyday. Ordinary activities studied here range from flint-knapping to ceremonial crafting, from subsistence to social gatherings, and from the Paleoindian period to the nineteenth century. Contributors demonstrate that attention to everyday life can help researchers avoid overemphasizing data and jargon and instead discover connections between the people of different eras. This approach will also inspire archaeologists with ways to engage the public with their work and with the deep history of the southeastern United States.
Book Synopsis Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America by : Cheryl Claassen
Download or read book Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America written by Cheryl Claassen and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claassen’s work focuses on the American Archaic period (marked by the end of the Ice Age approximately 11,000 years ago) and a geographic area bounded by the edge of the Great Plains, Newfoundland, and southern Florida. This period and region share specific beliefs and practices such as human sacrifice, dirt mound burial, and oyster shell middens. This interpretive guide serves as a platform for new interpretations and theories on this period. For example, Claassen connects rituals to topographic features and posits the Pleistocene-Holocene transition as a major stimulus to Archaic beliefs. She also expands the interpretation of existing data previously understood in economic or environmental terms to include how this same data may also reveal spiritual and symbolic practices. Similarly, Claassen interprets Archaic culture in terms of human agency and social constraint, bringing ritual acts into focus as drivers of social transformation and ethnogenesis.
Book Synopsis A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism by : Megan C. Kassabaum
Download or read book A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism written by Megan C. Kassabaum and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a temporally and geographically broad yet detailed history of an important form of Native American architecture, the platform mound. While the variation in these earthen monuments across the eastern United States has sparked much debate among archaeologists, this landmark study reveals unexpected continuities in moundbuilding over many thousands of years. In A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism, Megan Kassabaum synthesizes an exceptionally wide dataset of 149 platform mound sites from the earliest iterations of the structure 7,500 years ago to its latest manifestations. Kassabaum discusses Archaic period sites from Florida and the Lower Mississippi Valley, as well as Woodland period sites across the Midwest and Southeast, to revisit traditional perspectives on later, more well-known Mississippian-era mounds. Kassabaum’s chronological approach corrects major flaws in the ways these constructions have been interpreted in the past. This comprehensive history exposes nonlinear shifts in mound function, use, and meaning across space and time and suggests a dynamic view of the vitality and creativity of their builders. Ending with a discussion of Native American beliefs about and uses of earthen mounds today, Kassabaum reminds us that this history will continue to be written for many generations to come. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
Book Synopsis Early New World Monumentality by : Richard L. Burger
Download or read book Early New World Monumentality written by Richard L. Burger and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-05-20 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In studies of ancient civilizations, the focus is often on the temples, palaces, and buildings created and then left behind, both because they survive and because of the awe they still inspire today. From the Mississippian mounds in the United States to the early pyramids of Peru, these monuments have been well-documented, but less attention has been paid to analyzing the logistical complexity involved in their creation. In this collection, prominent archaeologists explore the sophisticated political and logistical organizations that were required to plan and complete these architectural marvels. They discuss the long-term political, social, and military impacts these projects had on their respective civilizations, and illuminate the significance of monumentality among early complex societies in the Americas. Early New World Monumentality is ultimately a study of labor and its mobilization, as well as the long-term spiritual awe and political organization that motivated and were enhanced by such undertakings. Mounds and other impressive monuments left behind by earlier civilizations continue to reveal their secrets, offering profound insights into the development of complex societies throughout the New World.
Book Synopsis Archaic Subsistence in the Middle St. Johns River Valley by : William M. Stanton
Download or read book Archaic Subsistence in the Middle St. Johns River Valley written by William M. Stanton and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Early History of the St. John's River by : Ed Winn
Download or read book The Early History of the St. John's River written by Ed Winn and published by Buster's Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early & present history about Florida's St. Johns River.
Book Synopsis Remapping Histories by : Asa Robert Randall
Download or read book Remapping Histories written by Asa Robert Randall and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, I reconstruct the histories of six Mount Taylor shell mounds based on stratigraphic testing. The results demonstrate that shellfishing was initiated at a time of considerable landscape instability by arguably diverse regional populations. After being established as places to dwell, some preexisting settlements were reconfigured as platform mounds upon which shellfish was deposited in ritualized sequences, while others were converted into foundations for mortuary mounds. Through time, other shell mounds experienced complex histories of abandonment, renewal, and transformation as well. I argue that along the St. Johns, Mount Taylor communities routinely referenced past places in order to construct new social histories that accommodated or denied social and ecological change.
Book Synopsis Space and Time Perspective in Northern St. Johns Archeology, Florida by : John Mann Goggin
Download or read book Space and Time Perspective in Northern St. Johns Archeology, Florida written by John Mann Goggin and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yale University Publications In Anthropology, No. 47.
Book Synopsis Archaeological Investigations at the Summer Haven Site (8SJ46), an Orange Period and St. Johns Period Midden Site in Southeastern St. Johns County, Florida by : Randy V. Bellomo
Download or read book Archaeological Investigations at the Summer Haven Site (8SJ46), an Orange Period and St. Johns Period Midden Site in Southeastern St. Johns County, Florida written by Randy V. Bellomo and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological mitigative excavations were conducted at the Summer Haven site, located just south of the new Matanzas Bridge replacement, during 1992. Laterally extensive midden deposits, 143 cultural features, and numerous artifacts were revealed, as were the skeletal remains of fourteen human individuals and the identification of five possible house structures which indicate that the remnants of the site represent an extensive village midden predominantly dating to the early Orange period, and that the investigated portions of the site were occupied between the Late Archaic period and the Early Formative period.
Book Synopsis Ancient Complexities by : Susan M. Alt
Download or read book Ancient Complexities written by Susan M. Alt and published by Foundations of Archaeological. This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A current overview of what is meant by cultural c omplexity and how archaeologists study the developoment of complex societies in North America.
Book Synopsis Skeletal Evidence of Health, Disease, Subsistence, and Settlement at Two Archaic Florida Sites by : Heather Walsh-Haney
Download or read book Skeletal Evidence of Health, Disease, Subsistence, and Settlement at Two Archaic Florida Sites written by Heather Walsh-Haney and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
