North America: Southeast United States (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Swisher.

This is an abstract from the "Stability and Resilience in Zooarchaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Food is not only a means of nutrition and nourishment but also a way to bring people together, share experiences, and create memories. Some of the ways food is most noted is through special events or circumstances when large meals or atypical foods are used to bring groups of people together. Feasts, however, can serve many purposes. It is not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Coughlin. Kelly Sellers Wittie.

In 2014 R. Christopher Goodwin& Associates, Inc., completed the analysis of the faunal remains from archaeological data recovery at the Colton School site (16OR562), Orleans Parish, Louisiana. Analysis of faunal remains from the site revealed a propensity for beef rather than pork, a finding that contrasts Sam Bowers Hilliard’s statement on eating trends in the American South ca. 1860 as presented in his 1972 book Hog Meat and Hoecake. This article presents the result of this analysis and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dylan Davis.

As a resource, the archaeological record is finite and remains largely incomplete. Within the context of Southeastern American archaeology, the incompleteness of the record can be seen in the study of shell rings. Many unidentified shell rings exist in the archaeological record, and their detection remains difficult – even with remote sensing techniques – due to the fact that many are located under heavily forested canopies. However, with the use of object-based image analysis (OBIA), such...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Blair Tormey. Paul Martin.

This is an abstract from the "Canine Resources for the Archaeologist" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout the American South, it is not uncommon for historical African American cemeteries and burial sites to possess little to no written records, complicating preservation efforts. Since 2010, researchers and students at Western Carolina University, in cooperation with Martin Archaeology Consulting, have utilized human remains detection (HRD)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Capps.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There has been a long-standing interest in the Coles Creek (A.D. 700-1000) mound centers of the Natchez Bluffs region in the Lower Mississippi Valley (LMV), however, work focused on non-mound spaces is lacking. Few Coles Creek structures that are unassociated with mounds have been excavated, which makes answering questions about everyday life and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Kate Mauney.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Regulator Rebellion, a fourteen-year conflict between corrupt colonial powers and backcountry residents seeking governmental regulation, has been the subject of scholarly debate, the focus of numerous books and articles, and the inspiration for famous works of fiction. Despite academic and public intrigue, research on the Regulator Rebellion has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Shane Miller. Stephen B. Carmody.

This is an abstract from the "Fifty Years of Fretwell and Lucas: Archaeological Applications of Ideal Distribution Models" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We use the Ideal Free Distribution from Behavioral Ecology as a null model to interpret the distribution of previously recorded archaeological sites in the Tennessee and Duck River Valleys in central Tennessee from the appearance of Clovis sites in the terminal Pleistocene though the Early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Dozier.

In the 1840s, Florida was a large part of the trade and shipping networks of the Southeast United States. The Gulf coastal town of Apalachicola became the third largest port in Florida. This poster presents the archaeological evidence of a storefront located along Water Street in Apalachicola, Florida, built in 1837 and burned in 1844. The entire market place comprised of stores, clerk offices, and cotton warehouses, with this particular property (8FR1318) being B.S. Hawley’s store. Nineteenth-...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Pluckhahn. Kendal Jackson. Jaime Rogers. Victor Thompson. Carey Garland.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although archaeologists commonly situate the value of our field in its capacity to identify broad-scale patterning in human societies over the long term, critiques of the essentialism and linearity of social evolution led many to abandon this goal in favor of shorter-term, local histories. Drawing from calls for a “process archaeology” that recognizes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Woelkers. Jay D. Franklin.

We analyze lithic flaking debris from transitional terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene layers at Rock Creek Mortar Shelter, a multicomponent site on the Upper Cumberland Plateau (UCP), Pickett County, Tennessee. Blades, blade-like flakes, and two blade core fragments are among the lithics recovered from these contexts. Because these transitional-looking assemblages were recovered from early Holocene contexts, we believe they potentially represent groups of early Archaic peoples who were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liz Southard.

Fishing economies are often described as a principal form of subsistence for prehistoric Florida communities. However, seasonality analyses on fish remains, which have the potential to reveal patterns pertaining to population aggregations and the pace of construction projects, are generally underutilized. This research uses marginal increment analysis of otoliths (fish ear-stones) to investigate whether seasonal deposition events were taking place at two Woodland period sites: the Crystal River...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Stewart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On Dec. 15, 1944, a B-24 took off on a night navigation mission from Chatham Air Field in Georgia, headed to Florida. The crew of nine were training to patrol the East Coast for enemy submarines. Fifteen minutes into the flight, engine #1 caught fire. The bomber crashed less than five minutes later into swampland in the lowcountry of South Carolina. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michaelyn Harle. Laura Smith. Suzanne Fisher. Heather Heart.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Thulman.

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.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Halling. Ryan Seidemann.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Edwards.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Helen Bouzon.

This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Disasters have plagued the City of New Orleans since its founding in 1718. The citizens of New Orleans have adapted and rebuilt in the wake of each catastrophe. Two fires destroyed significant parts of the colony in the eighteenth century. Little attention has been paid to the short or long-term effects...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tara Skipton. Jordan Davis.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Schwartz. Nick Belluzzo.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Pollack. Bruce Manzano. Gwynn Henderson. Thomas Royster. Moriah Raleigh.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Nowak.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Fogle. Diane Wallman.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Worth.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Kowalski.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan Mofidi.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning in 1939, the Works Progress Association (WPA) led by David Baerreis excavated the School Land I site as a mitigation effort before the completion of the Pensacola Dam which consequently submerged the site and adjacent areas. Since that point, the materials collected by the WPA have been largely untouched for further analysis, save for the faunal...