U.S. Southeast (Geographic Keyword)

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Strangers in the Great Bend: Settler and Native Communities in the Red River Valley of the Old Southwest at the Beginning of the 19th Century (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl G. Drexler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Shifting Borders: Early-19th Century Archeology in the Trans-Mississippi South" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Great Bend of the Red River is the junction between the American states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. In the first decades of the 19th century, it was a place of complex connections and interactions as immigrant Native communities from the east, along with American settlers,...

United by Process, Divided by Everything Else: Caddo and Settler Saltmaking at the Holman Springs Site, Sevier County, Arkansas (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl G. Drexler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Red River of the Southeast is one area where shallow subterranean salt deposits mix with groundwater to produce briny marshes. Successive communities residing in the area rendered those brines into salt. How they did so, what they used the salt for, and how it affected their relationships with neighbors differed drastically...