North America: Southeast United States (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Sampson.

In the past, as in the present, political-economic relationships occur at multiple social scales: for instance, we recognize regional relationships of dominance or tribute, degrees of dependence or rivalry between trading partner communities, and patterns of collaboration or competition between neighboring households. Enduring inequalities may become established at any of these levels at different times. This paper will discuss the local organization of residential communities in the context of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Bentley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For more than four decades the lower Aucilla River in northwest Florida has been recognized for its impressive late Pleistocene archaeological site preservation and its potential to further our understanding of Americas earliest indigenous inhabitants. Within the mid-channel collapse sinkholes of this river, dozens of late Pleistocene archaeological sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hayden Bassett. Madeleine Gunter Bassett.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Smith River Survey is a two-year archaeological assessment of the Smith River valley in the southern Piedmont of Virginia. This river drainage survey explores the regional settlement patterns, site functions, and subsistence logistics across the alluvial floodplains, foothills, and uplands in the southern part of Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains. While this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Hargrave. R. Berle Clay. Rinita Dalan. Diana Greenlee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Questions persist about the layout and building sequence of Poverty Point’s landscape features, and the planning and rapidity of overall site construction. A research program using geophysics, stratigraphic coring, lidar, and targeted excavation that began in 2006 continues to yield new data and interpretations about the ridges, timber circles, plaza, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cheyenne Lewis. Kevin Gidusko. Tommy Budd.

This is an abstract from the "Vicksburg Is the Key: Recent Archaeological Investigations and New Perspectives from the Gibraltar of the South" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following a landslide at Vicksburg National Cemetery in 2020, a portion of the collapsed terrace within the cemetery was subject to emergency excavations to recover burials that had fallen from the Section T terrace. In addition, the landslide covered a portion of the Section...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Ledford.

The eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo sylvestris) is a well documented resource for Native Americans in the Southeastern United States. Recent research suggests that turkeys may have been managed by Mississippian period people in Middle Tennessee as opposed to being hunted solely in the wild. These conclusions are based on a combination of ethnographic sources, osteometric data, and other non-osseous evidence. As a part of my thesis, I extracted collagen from 12 prehistoric turkey...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalie Mueller. Elizabeth Horton.

This is an abstract from the "*SE The State of Theory in Southeastern Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout the western hemisphere, historical ecologists working with Indigenous experts have made profound discoveries about the ways in which seemingly pristine ecosystems were shaped by Indigenous knowledge and practice over the course of thousands of years. Key methodologies include surveys of biodiversity and ecosystem structure...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Seeber.

This is an abstract from the "From Tomb Raider to Indiana Jones: Pitfalls and Potential Promise of Archaeology in Pop Culture" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beaches have long attracted day-trippers and vacation goers who come to soak up the sun, splash in the ocean, and collect shells along their expanse. Nearly all coastal areas have their beach attractions and accompanying tourist industries. But the beaches along the American Southeastern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sheila Savage. Scott Hammerstedt. Amanda Regnier.

Beginning around 1100 CE, residents of the eastern Oklahoma Arkansas River drainage built mounds, shared elaborate mortuary rituals, and on some level participated in a maize-based agricultural system. These aspects of the broader Mississippian pattern were centered at Spiro Mounds. Beginning in 1300 CE, people began abandoning the mound sites on the margins of the Southern Plains. As climate conditions worsened in the fifteenth century, the residents of the Arkansas drainage adopted Plains...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Barbour. Audree Espada. Ethan Ortega.

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. In 1621, Franciscan Missionaries arrived at Giusewa Pueblo. They came to convert the native Jemez peoples to Catholicism and with their aid built the Mission of San Jose de los Jemez. Two years later, the Jemez revolted burning the mission and abandoning the village. The subsequent three year war led to an estimated 3,000 Jemez...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan deFrance.

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. Since its founding, New Orleans has required infrastructure to collect and move water from its below-sea-level terrain. The urban development of the city required drainage ditches and canals that connected to bayous, the Mississippi River, or Lake Pontchartrain. Although there was trash collection in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Morgan Smith. Shawn Joy.

This is an abstract from the "Liquid Landscapes: Recent Developments in Submerged Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lithic technological organization (LTO) approaches are used to understand how stone tool making societies provision themselves with regards to raw material in a given environment. How societies provision themselves provides insight into their adaptive strategies for a landscape. 8JE1796, Clint’s Scallop Hole, is a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Krus. Charles Cobb. Brad Lieb. Edmond Boudreaux III.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mississippian presence in the Upper Tombigbee River (UTR) drainage is represented by dispersed communities and single-mound centers with modest-sized occupations. The artifact sequence for the UTR closely mirrors that of the neighboring Moundville polity and the UTR traditionally has been viewed as having occupations that extended throughout the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Nowak.

This is an abstract from the "Dancing through Iconographic Corpora: A Symposium in Honor of F. Kent Reilly III" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dr. Kent F. Reilly and many of the scholars associated with the Mississippian Iconography Workshop have used ethnography and folklore to support interpretations about ritual and cosmology. This talk discusses how ancient landscapes can, in turn, inform folklore, ritual communication, and iconography....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vincas Steponaitis.

In the 1720s the Natchez nation, as described in contemporary French accounts, consisted of at least six towns: Grand, Farine, Pomme, Tioux, Grigra, and Jenzenaque. Building on the work of Andrew Albrecht, Ian Brown, and James Barnett, and taking into account eighteenth-century manuscript maps that have recently come to light, I re-examine the evidence for the nature of these towns and where they were located on the modern landscape. Apparent inconsistencies between narrative accounts and maps...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Herbert. Jonathan Schleier. William Feltz.

In presettlement times long leaf pine forest dominated the Carolina Sandhills, where frequent wildfire, sandy soil and steep hydrologic gradients produced high biodiversity, but low hunter-gatherer carrying capacity. Land-use models based on the results of systematic shovel testing across 162 square miles at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, indicate continuous occupation throughout prehistory, small group size and short terms of residential tenure. Although the archaeological site is the unit of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Kassabaum. Alexandria Mitchem.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The role of non-food plants in human history is a growing area of research for paleoethnobotanists. In this paper, we develop and present a multi-pronged method for exploring non-subsistence human-plant interactions in the archaeological record, using a case study from the American Southeast. The archaeological record of the Lower Mississippi Valley...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron Walker. Tanya Peres.

This is an abstract from the "First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I will present an analysis of historic material recovered during the systematic auger survey conducted within the ravine and the excavation of a 20th century tenant house located on the San Luis site. There will be discussion regarding the cultural material contents from these two locations, as well as comparing them to all other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margo Schwadron.

This is an abstract from the ""Re-excavating" Legacy Collections" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many of our culture histories and chronologies were built by early generations of archaeologists who targeted superlative sites, often excavating voluminous areas or entire sites. Decades later, many of these collections remain uncatalogued, unstudied, or worse—relegated to garages, garbage piles, or lost completely. Contemporary archeologists and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles McGimsey.

This is an abstract from the "What’s Canoe? Recent Research on Dugouts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Louisiana has 31 dugout and plank canoes spanning the last 2,000 years recorded in the archaeological site files. The collection reflects a diversity of shapes and sizes in both Indigenous and Euroamerican assemblages, suggesting that beyond the required linear shape, individual preference and intended function significantly influenced form. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenna Slatowski. Lori Lee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fort Mose was the first free black settlement in the United States, built in Spanish territory on land previously occupied by the Eastern Timucuan. This paper explores the ceramics of Fort Mose and delves into the chronology of site use based on ceramic types. Indigenous ceramics and colonoware provide insight into the presence and cultural interaction of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Benchley. Judith Bense.

We will celebrate the contributions of Lynne Goldstein to regional and public archaeology both in the Midwest and in Florida. We will begin by reviewing her innovative work with regional archaeology and political outreach in Wisconsin. When the opportunity arose in Florida to create a state-wide public archaeology program, we called on her to assist with forming the plan and with its implementation. The Florida Public Archaeology Network owes much to Dr. Goldstein, who has served on its board...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Sherwood.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Poverty Point’s concentric ridges have long been assumed to be residential areas despite an absence of archaeological evidence for houses. In 1991, a field school excavation was initiated based on a core that suggested a possible clay floor buried ~60 cm below the surface. Sixteen 2 × 2 units were opened,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Mathu. Katie Chiou.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project looks at plant remains from an archaeological site, Moundville (1Tu500), in the Black Warrior River Valley of west central Alabama. Over centuries of occupation (AD 1020-1650), the people of the Black Warrior River Valley experienced profound changes in population size and social organization. Signatures of past peoples co-mediating...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Leone.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While it was initially assumed that the residents of Poverty Point relied on an agricultural subsistence base, it soon became apparent that there was no macrobotanical evidence supporting such an assumption. Instead, subsistence remains were found to be generally consistent with a Late Archaic hunting,...