Piedmont Village Tradition (Other Keyword)
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Excavations at the Redtail site (31Yd173) have begun to reveal the internal arrangement of a Piedmont Village Tradition (PVT) settlement occupied during AD 1200–1600 in the upper Yadkin River Valley of the western North Carolina Piedmont. Research projects over the last 40 years have established similar information for a small number of settlements in the eastern and central Piedmont of North Carolina and Virginia. This research examines the morphology and spatial patterning of postmolds and pit...
GIS as Method or Theory: The Settlement Ecology of Middle-Range Societies in Southeastern North America, AD 1000-1600 (2016)
In this paper, I explore the relationship between method and theory in spatial archaeology that employs Geographic Information Systems (GIS). I do this through an examination of the settlement ecology of societies of varying sociopolitical complexity in the Southeastern United States. I use GIS to estimate past environments and landscapes and record attributes of settlement sites, their catchments, and surrounding areas, which I then analyze using spatial statistical methods. Comparisons of...
Lithic Material Use in the Upper Yadkin River Valley and Its Implications for Southeastern Late Woodland Exchange Networks (2017)
Mississippian and Piedmont Village Tradition (PVT) communities contemporaneously occupied the North Carolina and Virginia Piedmont and adjacent areas from AD 1100-1600. Discussions of trade and exchange, however, tend to focus on Mississippian political economies. Previous work at PVT sites has identified non-local lithic materials, some moving between Mississippian and PVT areas, suggesting a regional network that included both cultures. Our work focuses on the fourteenth-century Redtail site...