Review
"Dr. Judith A. Bense is to be congratulated for her successful coverage of a broad topic that spans more than 12 millennia and encompasses a large geographic area... Up-to-date... The inclusion of an American Stage is innovation and valuable... The compliation of the material incorporated in this book was a tremendous undertaking."
--JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
"This book does indeed succeed in its stated goal of accumulating and synthesizing, in one volume, more or less up-to-date and representative information about most of the Southeast through the entire prehistoric sequence, and most of historic time as well. Bense does a good job of succinctly explaining some past behavioral patterns and anthropological and archaeological concepts for novices... She is perhaps at her best, though, in summing up large-scale patterns of economics, demography, settlement, and site patterning for the historic periods. In summary, Bense has taken on an immense task, and made a promising beginning,..."
--Marvin D. Jeter, MISSISSIPPI ARCHAEOLOGY.
Review
"Dr. Judith A. Bense is to be congratulated for her successful coverage of a broad topic that spans more than 12 millennia and encompasses a large geographic area... Up-to-date... The inclusion of an American Stage is innovation and valuable... The compliation of the material incorporated in this book was a tremendous undertaking."
--JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
"This book does indeed succeed in its stated goal of accumulating and synthesizing, in one volume, more or less up-to-date and representative information about most of the Southeast through the entire prehistoric sequence, and most of historic time as well. Bense does a good job of succinctly explaining some past behavioral patterns and anthropological and archaeological concepts for novices... She is perhaps at her best, though, in summing up large-scale patterns of economics, demography, settlement, and site patterning for the historic periods. In summary, Bense has taken on an immense task, and made a promising beginning,..."
--Marvin D. Jeter, MISSISSIPPI ARCHAEOLOGY.
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