North America: Southeast United States (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the pioneers of dendrochronology, Florence Hawley was employed by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in the 1930s during the archaeological excavations that were conducted prior to impoundment of Norris Reservoir. Hawley’s work was one of the earliest attempts at establishing a...
Florida’s Fluted Paleoindian Points: A Reassessment of the Typology (2018)
Paleoindian points from Florida are different from the rest of the Southeast. Instrument-assisted fluting was never adopted, and Florida produced some apparently post-Clovis forms that are unlike any elsewhere. Several attempts have been made to sort out the myriad forms. This attempt uses landmark-based geometric morphometrics to more objectively distinguish fluted point forms.
Following the Storm: Ethical Considerations for Historic Cemetery Disruptions after Natural Disasters (2018)
Louisiana is known for its historic and iconic cemeteries which feature above ground monuments, vaults, and tombs. However, equal numbers of cemeteries are in-ground, and are often lost or forgotten. Due to the accessibility of the above-ground cemeteries, these spaces make for easy targets of vandalism, are used for religious worship, impede construction efforts, and become impacted by natural disasters. The in-ground cemeteries are often encountered in urban development and during disaster...
Food and Cooking at Dust Cave: An Experimental and Microarchaeological Approach (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The potential of features to elucidate our understanding of past cultures is often understudied. When they do receive attention, it is often on the macroarchaeological scale, looking at visible morphology and artifacts. Microartifact analysis (MAA), however, has demonstrated the potential to add more information to our understanding of a site than...
For Whom Are We Searching? Issues and Ethics of Maroon Site Location in the Southeastern United States (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeology of maroon societies and marronage has provided crucial insight for broader studies of the African Diaspora around the world. However, few comparative approaches have addressed the southeastern United States, where marronage manifested across a multitude of environmental, historical, and sociopolitical contexts. In part, this is due to...
Forged by Many Hands: Analyzing Transformations of Space in the Antebellum Industrial South (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Often overshadowed by agriculture-based slavery, industrial slavery shaped the physical, economic, and cultural landscape of the antebellum South on multiple scales. Mills, factories, mines, industrial plantations, and other operations exploited natural resources and enslaved labor on large scales, as enslaved industrial workers and communities attempted to...
Fort Ancient Wild Turkey (*Meleagris gallopavo) Harvesting Strategies (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Birds in Archaeology: New Approaches to Understanding the Diverse Roles of Birds in the Past" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Wild turkeys (*Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) were an important component in the diet of the middle Ohio Valley’s Fort Ancient farming cultures from AD 1000 to 1750. Wild turkeys often accounted for about 4% of the meat consumed by village residents. Our research into Fort Ancient wild turkey...
Fort Walton Formations: Examining Geospatial Trends in Artifacts and Architecture at the Lake Jackson Site in Florida (2018)
Located in Northwest Florida, Lake Jackson is a Fort Walton(Mississippian) period site with seven mounds, borrow pits, wall-trench architecture, and mortuary objects suggesting interregional interaction. This work examines geospatial relations between artifact distributions, known structural remains, and mound alignments in relation to the landscape. New excavation data from previously unexplored areas and digital presentations of associated artifact densities allows for new views of occupation...
Free to Choose? Emancipation, Foodways and Belonging on Witherspoon Island (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After emancipation, formerly enslaved people in the American Southeast encountered significant challenges while transitioning to free life. Despite many obstacles, individuals and communities chose diverse paths towards establishing new lives as free men and women. Here, we examine post-emancipation foodways through historical archaeology on Witherspoon...
From Accommodation to Massacre: Evolving Native Responses to Spanish Military Expeditions in the Interior Southeast, 1540-1568 (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Archaeologies of Contact, Colony, and Resistance" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 1540 and 1568, three Spanish military expeditions penetrated the interior region of the southeastern United States, interacting on two or more occasions with several Native chiefdoms extending between Alabama and the Carolinas. The army of Hernando de Soto crossed this entire area in 1540, followed by revisits to the western...
From Bluffs to Floodplain: A Spatial Approach to Mississippian Communities in the Ozarks of Arkansas (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mississippian (ca. AD 1000–1500) occupation of the Ozarks in Northwest Arkansas is known through few multiple-mound ceremonial centers in river valleys and from rockshelters along limestone bluff lines. Few permanent habitation sites are recorded, and understanding how sites...
From Cave Mouth To Temple Door (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Art Style as a Communicative Tool in Archaeological Research" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I suggest that at some point in the development of the Braden art style that the 3D flint-clay statuettes (AD 1100–1175) take the place of the earlier Braden-style paintings (AD 900–1000) found in caves and rockshelters, while temples (BBB Motor Site) that house the flint-clay statuettes substitute for the caves that housed...
From General to Specific: Targeting Freshwater Resources in Pottery Residues Using Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis (2018)
Direct detection of resources processed in pottery by means of the chemical analysis of absorbed pottery residues is a valuable technique, but identifying specific resources in pottery residues is tricky and problematic. This is due to issues with resource mixing from multiple uses of pottery, as well as the relative rarity of biomarkers unique to specific resources. Advances in compound-specific isotope analysis permit identification of isotopically distinct resources in residues, such as C4...
From Person to Specimen: Exploring the Necroviolence of Medical “Progress” from Charity Hospital Cemetery #2, New Orleans, LA (1847–1929) (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Charity Hospital, which operated from the eighteenth century until Hurricane Katrina in 2005, served New Orleans’s poorest citizens. During the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the remains of many individuals who died at the hospital were used for medical dissection and autopsy. A collection of commingled skeletal remains associated with one of the...
From Quarry to Mine: Citronelle Gravel Extraction in Southwest Mississippi (2018)
Excavation was performed on the periphery of a substantial Pliocene-age deposit of Citronelle gravel in southwest Mississippi, 20 miles north of the Gulf Coast. This gravel deposit, which covered hundreds of acres, represents the southern-most exposure in the region. Historic Citronelle mining throughout the twentieth century has extirpated the signature of primary lithic reduction deposits; however, a discrete loci of cultural material spanning two millennia remains intact, and buried beneath...
The Function of Woodland Period Shell Rings as Seen at the Mound Field Site (8WA8) (2018)
What purpose did Woodland period shell rings along the Gulf Coast of Florida hold? These unique architectural features have been explained as specific patterns of trash disposal, protection against flooding events, and as barriers from intruders, among other things, but no answers have stood to truly explain their proliferation and significance during the Woodland period. Recent excavations in 2015 by Dr. Mike Russo (National Park Service) and in 2016 by Dr. Tanya Peres (Florida State...
Fusihatchee Faunal Data (2015)
An Access database of zooarchaeology data from the Ancestral Creek Fusihatchee site (1EE191) The data were reported in a 2001 dissertation by Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman entitled "Culture Contact and Subsistence Change at Fusihatchee." The database was created in 2015 by Nicole Mathwich and uploaded to tDAR by Andrew Webster in 2018. The database was created from handwritten data cards created from 1997-1998 at the University of Georgia. These original cards have been scanned and are included in...
Fusihatchee Faunal Data Paper Copy Scans (1998)
This file is a PDF scan of the original handwritten cards of zooarchaeological data for Fusihatchee that were compiled from 1997-1998 at the University of Georgia. In 2015, this data was digitized into an Access database entitled "Fusihatchee Faunal Data" which is included on tDAR with this project. Although the PDF is text searchable, in practice this will only pull up the UGA number, not the handwritten data. The OCR does not recognize every UGA number. The PDF is mostly in the order of...
The Future of Paleogenomics in Archaeology: Insights from a Multidisciplinary Study on Sunflower Domestication (2018)
Ancient DNA (aDNA) methodologies have rapidly developed over the past three decades, and today these tools provide a powerful means to investigate a wide range of archaeological inquiries, including human evolution, animal and plant domestication, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. In this talk, I will summarize general approaches in paleogenomics research, focusing on concerns and questions from archaeologists. To demonstrate how state-of-the-art paleogenomic techniques can contribute to...
Game On: Ceramic Discoidals from the Lamar Site (2018)
Ceramic discoidals represent a commonplace but often overlooked artifact found at many Mississippian sites. Generally, these important cultural objects are classified by archaeologists as gaming pieces. This assumption is based on European descriptions of Native American games. However, uncertainty remains regarding the function and significance of this class of artifact with no conclusive evidence that discoidals were used exclusively for games. Additionally, comparing ceramic discoidals with...
Gathering, Gardening, and Agriculture: Arkansas Archeological Survey’s Plant-based Public Archeology (2018)
The Arkansas Archeological Survey has been practicing citizen science and developing educational tools for engaging local communities in the study of the past since the 1960s. In this paper, we discuss recent efforts by the Survey to develop educational content specifically aimed at highlighting the history of plant use through time in the southeastern United States. The Survey received grant funds to develop the 5th grade social studies curriculum, Gathering, Gardening, and Agriculture:...
A Geoarchaeological Investigation of Site Formation Processes and Late Pleistocene and Holocene Environmental Change at the Foxwood Farm site (38PN35) (2018)
The Foxwood Farm site (38PN35) is deeply stratified (4.8 m) sedimentary sequence located on the Oolenoy River, near the boundary between the Piedmont and Blue Ridge in Pickens County, South Carolina. The lower most sediments, (4.8 to 3.2 m), consisting of channel gravels, lateral accretion sands, and clays, were deposited during the late Pleistocene prior to 12.6 ka. These sediments exhibit a fining upward sequence from channel gravels and sands, through bar sands, to a cap of clays. The upper...
Geoarchaeological Investigations at White Pond, Elgin, SC (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The White Pond Human Paleoecology Project is a collaborative effort between multiple institutions and researchers to study the geology, archaeology, and paleoecology of White Pond in South Carolina. Building on the seminal work of Watts (1980), this research seeks to: 1) derive the broader geologic context of the age and origin of White Pond and its fringing...
Geochemical Analysis of Cremated Bone from River Styx (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. River Styx, a Middle Woodland (ca. AD 100-300) ceremonial center located in North Central Florida, is currently the only known site in prehistoric Florida where cremation was the sole form of deposition of human remains. Previous analysis of material remains from the site indicate extra-local connections up into the Ohio Hopewell and Great Lakes regions. To...
Geophysical and Archaeological Explorations of the Center of the Creighton Island Shell Ring (9MC87), Georgia, USA (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Creighton Island Shell Ring (9MC87) is one of several Late Archaic shell rings, circular or “U”- shaped deposits of shell and soil, in coastal Georgia. Radiocarbon dates suggest the shell ring was constructed in at least two phases: constructed initially around 2000–1810 BC, and ceasing around 1920-1730 BC, indicating rapid construction and slightly...