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 in small groups, loosely bound by collective burial rituals. But by the first millennium A.D., some parts of the region had densely packed civic ceremonial centers ruled by hereditary elites. Maize was now the primary food crop. Perhaps most importantly, the ancient animal-focused and hunting-based religion and cosmology were being replaced by solar and warfare iconography, consistent with societies dependent on agriculture, and whose elites were increasingly in competition with one another. This volume synthesizes the research on what happened during this era and how these changes came about while analyzing the period's archaeological record.
In gathering the latest research available on the Woodland Period, the editors have included contributions from the full range of specialists working in the field, highlighted major themes, and directed readers to the proper primary sources. Of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists, both professional and amateur, this will be a valuable reference work essential to understanding the Woodland Period in the Southeast.
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"1000 B.C.-A.D. 1000, the proverbial vacuum that Native and Southeastern archaeologists abhor? Well, no more! This volume provides wide ranging, up-to-date, and authoritative coverage of an important period in southeastern prehistory that, until now, has not received the emphasis it deserves."
—James Stoltman, University of Wisconsin
"This volume takes a big step in putting into print the latest and best research on the archaeology of the Woodland period in the Southeast. . . . There is something in this edited volume for anyone interested in the lives and times of native peoples during a critical period in the prehistory of the southeastern United States."
—Southeastern Archaeology
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David G. Anderson is an archaeologist with the National Park Service's Southeast Archeological Center in Tallahassee, Florida, and coeditor of The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast. Robert C. Mainfort Jr. is an archaeologist with the Arkansas Archeological Survey in Fayetteville.
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David G. Anderson (Ph.D. Michigan 1990, MA Arkansas 1979; BA Case Western Reserve 1972). Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee (2004-present; formerly with the National Park Service, 1988-2003. Awards: Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Dissertation Prize 1991; SAA Presidential Recognition Award 1997; SAA Excellence in Cultural Resource Management Award for Research 1999; First C. B. Moore Award for Excellence in Archaeology, Southeastern Archaeological Conference 1990. I have conducted archaeological fieldwork in the Southeastern, Southwestern, and Midwestern United States, and in the Caribbean. Professional interests include exploring the development of cultural complexity in Eastern North America, maintaining and improving the nation's archaeological program, teaching and writing about archaeology, and developing technical and popular syntheses of archaeological research. This work is documented in some 350 publications and meeting papers and some 40 books and technical monographs. Selected publications include The Savannah River Chiefdoms: Political Change in the Late Prehistoric Southeast (Alabama 1994), The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast (Alabama 1996); Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast (Florida 1996), the latter two edited with Ken Sassaman; The Woodland Southeast (Alabama 2002) edited with Bob Mainfort; Archaeology, History, and Predictive Modeling (Alabama 2003) with Steve Smith; and Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics: A Global Perspective on Mid-Holocene Transitions (Academic Press 2007) edited with Kirk A. Maasch and Daniel H. Sandweiss. Technical monographs/publications have encompassed large scale survey, excavation, and synthesis projects; site file management; site destruction and looting; historic preservation planning; and the state of the nation's cultural resource management program. A fairly complete resume, picture, and other biographical data is available on the web at http://web.utk.edu/~anthrop/faculty/anderson.html
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A synthesis of major research themes and findings,
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"The Woodland Period ( ca. 1200 BC to AD 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research over the past 25 years. Researchers have learned that in this 2000 year era the peoples of the South East experienced inceasing sedentism, population growth and organizational complexity. At the begining of the period, people are assumed to have been living in small groups, loosely boundby collective burial rituals. But bythe 1st melenium AD, some parts of the region had densely packed civic ceremonial centres rules by hereditary elites. maize was now the primary food crop. Perhapes most importantly, the ancient animal focused and hunting-based religion and cosmology were being replaced by solar and warfare iconography, consistent with societies dependent on agriculture, and whose elites were increasingly in competition with each other.
This volume synthesises the research on what happened during this era and how these changes came about, while analyzing the periods archaeological record. In gathering the latest research available on the Woodland period, the editors have highlighted major themes and given primary sources". Eighteen of the papers were presented at the 55th annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Greenville, South Carolina on November 12 1998. The 25 chapters are: (WP= Woodland Period) -An Introduction to Woodland Archaeology in the Southeast -WP archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley -Plum Bayou Culture of the Arkansas-White River Basin -WP archaeology of the Lower Mississippi Valley -Fourche Maline: A WP culture of the Trans-Mississippi South -The WP in the Northern Ozarks of Missouri -WP archeaology in the American Bottom -Deconstructing the Woodland sequence from the Heartland: A Review of recent research directions in the Upper Ohio Valley -Woodland Cultures of the Elk and Duck River Valleys, Tennessee: Continuity and Change -WP settlement patterning in the Northern Gulf Coastal plain of Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee -Woodland Culture and Chronological Trends on the Southern Gulf Coastal Plain: Recent Research in the Pine Hills of Southern Mississippi -The WP in the Appalachian Summit of Western North Carolina and the ridge and valley province of Eastern Tennessee -The WP in the Middle Atlantic: Ranking and Dynamic Political stability -A WP prehistory of North Carolina -Aspects of Deptford and Swift Creek of the South Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains -Weeden Island Cultures -The Woodland Archaeology of South Florida -Woodland Ceramic Beginings -Culture-Historical Units and the Woodland Southeast: A case study from Southeastern Missouri -Shellfish use during the WP in the Middle South -Woodland Faunal Exploitation in the Midsouth -The Development and Dispersal of Agricultural Systems in the WP Southeast -Woodland Cave Archeaology in eastern North America -Domesticating Self and Society in the Woodland Southeast -Epilogue: Future Directions for Woodland Archaeology in the Southeast David G Anderson is an archaeologist with the National Park Service's Southeast Archaeological Centre in Tallahassee, Florida and co-editor of "The Paleoindian and early Archaic Southeast" Robert C Mainfort Jr is an archaeologist at the University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology This is a book for professional and amateur archaeologists. The other earlier volume in the series is "The Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast" 1996.
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Very Complete Synthesis of an Important Period in Southeastern Prehistory,
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This book, the third in a series of edited volumes on southeastern archaeology, is a richly detailed synthesis of what is known about the Woodland period in the Southeastern United States - that is, the time between the end of the Archaic period, roughly 3,000 years or so before the present, and the rise of the Mississippian cultures in much of the Southeast around 900 - 1000 A.D.
Some of the best discussions concern the rise of the use of ceramics (Sassaman's chapter on the relationships between the different fiber-tempered ceramic series is excellent, as are Stephenson, Bense et. al.'s on certain of the Gulf coastal cultures) and the forms of social and political complexity arising in the time of the Woodland cultures. My only complaint with this book, as with much of southeastern archaeology until recently, is an insufficient emphasis on systems of belief in cultural practice in most of the chapters, though this in no way detracts from the excellent work of most of the authors. I recommend this book to both the professional archaeologist and the layman who wants to understand what was happening among the Native American cultures of the southest during the Woodland period.
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