Histories of southeastern archaeology
by McNutt, Charles H., Tushingham, Shannon, Hill, Jane
Histories of southeastern archaeology
Histories of southeastern archaeology
by McNutt, Charles H., Tushingham, Shannon, Hill, Jane
Histories of southeastern archaeology
by McNutt, Charles H., Tushingham, Shannon, Hill, Jane
This volume provides a comprehensive, broad-based overview, including first-person accounts, of the development and conduct of archaeology in the Southeast over the past three decades.
By focusing on how mortuary practices serve as symbols of beliefs and values for the living, the contributors explore how burial of the dead reflects and reinforces the cosmology of specific cultures, the status of living participants in the burial ceremony, ongoing kin relation…
The residents of Mississippian towns principally located in the southeastern and midwestern United States from 900 to1500 A.D. made many beautiful objects, which included elaborate and well-crafted copper and shell ornaments, pottery vessels, and stonework. Some of these objects…
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