North America: Southeast United States (Geographic Keyword)

551-575 (714 Records)

Revisiting the Submerged Shell Midden at Sabine Pass: Preliminary Core Results from the NOAA Exploration Mission: Paleolandscapes and the ca. 8000 BP Shoreline on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only August Costa. Amanda Evans. Leslie Bush. Richard Weinstein.

This is an abstract from the "Submerged Paleolandscape Investigations in the Gulf of Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over 40 years ago Coastal Environments Inc. pioneered a phased approach to identify prehistoric occupations on the now submerged outer continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico. This work homed in on a target in the Paleo-Sabine Valley and identified one of the first in situ, submerged prehistoric sites known in the Americas....


Rewriting Narratives by Challenging Old Ideas: The Potential in Applying Recent Innovations in Archaeology to Legacy Collections. (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Hall.

This is an abstract from the ""Re-excavating" Legacy Collections" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Army Corp of Engineers Mobile District funded excavations in Mississippi to salvage a number of Native American sites along the Tombigbee River from the construction of the Tennessee-Tombigbee River lock and dam complex. Three of these sites, Tibbee Creek (22Lo600), Kellogg (22Cl527), and Yarborough (22Cl814) are...


Ridges, Valleys, Mountains, and Plateaus: The Topographic Context of Late Mississippian Diversity in East Tennessee (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michaelyn Harle. Lynne Sullivan.

This is an abstract from the "Living and Dying in Mountain and Highland Landscapes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Topographical constraints played a role in shaping the social trajectory of the Southern Appalachian region. The Ridge and Valley physiographic province of East Tennessee includes the Tennessee River and is characterized by linear ridges and parallel valleys, with the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and the Appalachian Plateau...


The Rings of Poverty Point, UNESCO World Heritage Site: A Geophysical Investigation. (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Gilleland. Jennifer Amico. Anna Patchen. Tiffany Raymond. Rebecca Hunt.

The concentric ring features at the Poverty Point World Heritage site are monumental structures a kilometer and a half in diameter at their widest point. Though these impressive structures went unnoticed for many years after the identification of the area’s other archaeological resources, they are now recognized as a unique attribute of an already remarkable site. Here, we use multiple geophysical methods to attempt to characterize the construction of these features. Initially assumed to have...


Ritual Circuits and the Distribution of Exotic Sherds in Hopewell Contexts (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron Howell.

The exchange of exotic goods between disparate geographic and cultural groups across the Midwest and Southeast is a hallmark of the Hopewell Period. Ceramics Are recognized by archaeologists as an important component of this interaction sphere. This exchange is usually conceptualized as whole vessels moving across the landscape. In this paper, it is posited that sherds could be the unit of exchange instead. Using ritual circuits as a theoretical framework, this preliminary paper seeks to lay a...


Ritual Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi Valley: The Marksville Archaeological Project (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikayla Fletcher.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lower Mississippi Valley (LMV) has a long history of monumentality, with early examples of monumental earthworks confidently dated to the Middle Archaic (6000 – 3000 BC) and Late Archaic (3000 – 1000 BC) periods, and other mounds dating to Woodland (after 1000 BC) and Mississippi (after AD 1200) periods. The Middle Woodland-period Marksville mound site...


A River Runs through It: Placing Vicksburg in Context through an Analysis of Late Coles Creek Culture (1000–1200 CE) Land Use in the Lower Mississippi Valley (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Buckner.

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. HDR’s recent investigations in Vicksburg National Military Park (VNMP) identified multiple precontact sites composed of extensive ceramic scatters. A typological analysis of nearly 300 sherds suggests these occupations are associated with the transitional Coles Creek culture...


Rock Magnetic Characterization of Florida Pottery (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Pavlovics. Courtney Sprain. Lindsay Bloch. Neill Wallis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The methods used in artifact provenance in archaeological research is constantly being added to and updated. Identifying the geographical origin of the artifacts can provide information about past mobility patterns and interaction networks. There are a number of mineralogical and elemental methods currently used to characterize pottery composition, but they...


The Role of Federal-Academic Partnerships in Training the Next Generation of Archaeologists: A Case Study from the Ocala National Forest (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Gonzalez-Tennant. John Dysart. Taylor Collore. Rachel Thompson. Alex Nalewaik.

This is an abstract from the "Heritage Sites at the Intersection of Landscape, Memory, and Place: Archaeology, Heritage Commemoration, and Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ocala National Forest is the largest in the southern United States. Its 400,000 acres is home to 14,000 years of human history. In 2019, authors Dysart and Gonzalez-Tennant developed a multiyear project centering on an iterative approach to predictive modeling,...


Rose Red-Filmed by Any Other Name: Pottery Typology and Genealogy in the Southeastern US (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay Bloch.

This is an abstract from the ""Re-excavating" Legacy Collections" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Working with legacy collections, it is common to come across labeled artifacts or reports listing now defunct names. Over the years, archaeologists have chosen to define ceramic assemblages based on any number of attributes; often the primary consideration being the site or region in which they were first discovered and described. These names are time...


Sacred Animal Images in Precontact Southeastern Rock Art (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jan Simek. Alan Cressler.

Walter Klippel has always focused his research on animal remains from archaeological sites, especially from Southeast North America. In honor of his retirement, we review how animals are depicted in Precontact rock art sites from the region he knew so well. A wide variety of creatures—mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and even insects—were illustrated by ancient southeastern artists. Animal imagery appears in both open air and cave art, although the kinds of animals vary between these two...


Save our Sites! Using Archaeology to Educate the Public about Climate Change in South Florida. (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Ayers-Rigsby. Rachael Kangas.

Miami is often presented as the poster child of sea level rise; while climate change is generally accepted as an observable fact in south Florida, elsewhere this issue is regarded as too politically charged for frequent discussion. This renders sensitive archaeological sites vulnerable to coastal erosion, storm surge, and other factors. The Florida Public Archaeology Network’s Heritage Monitoring Scouts (HMS) Florida program is designed to raise awareness of how these factors will impact...


Saving Oberlin: African-American Historic Archaeology and Preservation in Raleigh, North Carolina (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dru McGill. John Wall. John K. Millhauser. Vincent Melomo. Ruth Little.

Free African-Americans established Oberlin Village outside Raleigh, North Carolina in 1866 at the end of the Civil War. Within two generations, the people of Oberlin had constructed churches, a school, a cemetery, shops, and many homes. Today, Oberlin continues to be an important site for African-American history and identity. For example, Oberlin Cemetery (established 1873) is one of only four African-American cemeteries in Raleigh. The cemetery’s more than 600 graves include many leading...


Scaffolding Archaeology, Education, and Collaboration at Sesquicentennial State Park, Columbia, South Carolina (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Goldberg. Stacey Young.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sesquicentennial State Park, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and opened to the public in 1940, contains multiple archaeological sites representing both precontact and historic occupations. Current archaeological excavations are focused on investigating the history of nineteenth and twentieth century African American communities which were...


Scout's Honor: Archaeological Stewardship of Rural Spaces with the Boy Scouts of America. (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Autumn Melby.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists working in isolated rural locales continue to face the challenge of protecting archaeological sites from threats of looting and vandalism. Whether physically secluded beyond a watchful eye or simply located on private lands with few legal protections, sites in these rural spaces are at particular risk for damage or (un)intentional...


The Search for Jamestown’s 1617 Church: How Digital Technologies are Providing New Insights into an Old Site (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Fischer. Mary Anna Hartley.

Digital technologies are changing fundamental approaches to archaeological excavation and analysis. The Jamestown Rediscovery project to examine James Fort, the first successful English settlement in North America, has been ongoing for more than 20 years. Recently the team has been working on re-excavating the site of three of Jamestown’s 17th-century churches, the earliest of which is significant for having been the site of the first representative assembly meeting in English America in 1619....


The Search for Paleo Dog and the Recognition of Ancient Art (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara Purdy. David S. Leigh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During archaeological field schools in 1976-1978, unfamiliar chert objects and tools were recovered from a sandy/clay deposit at the Container Corporation of America site (CCA 8MR154), Marion County, Florida. This deposit, the Alachua Clays, was traditionally considered "culturally sterile." The specimens from the sandy/clay deposit did not resemble in any way...


Searching for Late Pleistocene Deposits: Recent Geoarchaeological Investigations of the Aucilla River, Florida (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Bentley.

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. Within the mid-channel sinkholes of the modern Aucilla River in northwest Florida, dozens of late Pleistocene archaeological sites lie inundated in both surficial and buried contexts. Despite four decades of dedicated research, however, only three of these sites have been securely dated with geoarchaeological...


Searching for Old St. Andrews: A Program for Community Archaeology in Panama City, Florida (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Wenzel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster exhibits current research by Gulf Coast State College in examining sites associated with the “lost” town of St. Andrews, which was initially established in 1827 on St. Andrews Bay in northwestern Florida. Believed to be abandoned in 1863 during the American Civil War, archaeological investigations at properties associated with the town’s early...


Searching for the Missing Drum: The Evidence for the Presence and Ceremonial Importance of Ceramic Vessel Drums in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James Rees.

This is an abstract from the "Music Archaeology's Paradox: Contextual Dependency and Contextual Expressivity" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Early historical accounts suggest that drums played an important role in the ceremonial life of the prehistoric southeastern United States. However, because they were made in whole or in part of ephemeral materials, drums are virtually invisible in the archaeological record. Interestingly, historical records,...


Searching for the Submerged: Five Decades of Research Related to Drowned Prehistoric Sites in the Gulf of Mexico and Coastal Louisiana (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Weinstein. David Kelley. Charles Pearson.

This is an abstract from the "Submerged Paleolandscape Investigations in the Gulf of Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 1975, personnel at Coastal Environments Inc. have applied a geophysical and geological approach in their search for drowned prehistoric sites on the outer continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico and within marshlands of south Louisiana. Initial efforts culminated in the retrieval of numerous vibracore samples from the...


Section 106 and Fish Weirs: Recent Examples (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Espenshade.

This is an abstract from the "*SE Stakes and Stones: Current Archaeological Approaches to Fish Weir Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A recent resurgence in fish weir research has revealed limitations in the NRHP evaluation of such sites. With few weirs having been directly dated, and with a general lack of excavation of associated processing sites, it is often difficult to define the chronological context needed for a proper evaluation. In...


Seeing Identity within a Carceral Environment: Race and Gender within sites of the Southern Convict Lease System (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only V. Camille Westmont.

This is an abstract from the "Seeing Migrant and Diaspora Communities Archaeologically: Beyond the Cultural Fixity/Fluidity Binary" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following the abolishment of chattel slavery in the United Stated, southern legislatures found a replacement for enslaved African American labor in their prison populations. Building on racist laws and racially prejudiced prosecutions, southern legislatures systematically charged,...


Seismic Survey of Poverty Point Mound A (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William Frazer. James Bourke. Timothy de Smet. Alex Nikulin.

Poverty Point is a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its monumental earthworks. The largest and most significant feature on the site, Mound A, is over 21 meters high and 200 meters long. Currently, it is believed to have been built in three months at most. This supports the idea that there was a central leader directing its construction, a more socio-politically complex society than previous hunter-gatherer populations in North America. Evidence of stratigraphic layering, however, is an...


Selfish for Shellfish, or Magnanimous about Mollusks? The Transformation of Cooperation across the First Millennium CE at Crystal River and Roberts Island, Florida, USA (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Pluckhahn. Victor Thompson. Isabelle Lulewicz. Trevor Duke. Matthew Compton.

This is an abstract from the "Complex Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers of North America" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Blanton and Fargher (2016) critique evolutionary theorists for the assumption that cooperation was a single evolutionary hurdle; even if our species overcame such an obstacle in our distant evolutionary development, it is simplistic to assume that cooperation and collective action have been unchanged around the world over the last 100,000...