Southeastern Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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Advances in radiometric dating and statistical analyses are having a substantial impact on the archaeology of eastern North America, especially through the achievement of high precision intrasite chronologies. While detailed intrasite dynamics are invaluable to advancing understandings of rapid cultural change, more refined and empirically constructed regional histories are also necessary. An integrated regional Bayesian chronology is presented for Southern Appalachia using extant radiometric...
A Deeper Look at Lake Jackson: New Insights into Settlement Patterns and Ritual Space at a Florida Mississippian Center (2015)
This poster presents the results of magnetometer and ground penetrating radar surveys as well as excavations conducted in 2014 at the Lake Jackson site located in northwest Florida. The geophysical and excavation results augmented with previously recorded site data provide a new view of occupation and architectural placement in and around the mound complex. Evidence from the remote sensing survey reveals several anomalies that represent probable Mississippian-style structures, while shovel test...
Documenting Southeastern Indian Coalescence during the early Carolina Indian Trade (2016)
Past research has outlined the profound effects of the Carolina Indian deerskin and slave trade on the cultural landscape of the Southeast during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. This work has identified a number of historical processes (e.g., population movements, disease, endemic violence, and economic transformation) stemming from the interaction of southeastern Indian and European Colonial worlds. Together, these processes forged a dynamic, even chaotic, landscape. In...
Human-Environmental Dynamics of the Georgia Coast (2016)
This paper synthesizes and evaluates settlement and subsistence patterns in relation to landscape change for the entire prehistoric period on the Georgia coast. The dynamic coastal processes of the region have altered the topography and distribution of resources, including those important to humans. These processes were neither uniform in space nor time, with variations leading to the creation of micro-habitats. We assess these habitats individually and as part of a complex whole, to better...
New Approach to the Shields Mound: Recent Testing of the North Side Ramp (2016)
Shields Mound is one of two large burial mounds that compose the Mill Cove Complex, an early Mississippian period site located near the mouth of the St. Johns River in Northeast Florida. First excavated by C. B. Moore in the 1890s, the sand mound held hundreds of burials as well as exotic goods such as copper, galena, mica and two ground stone spatulate celts. More recently, the University of North Florida has investigated nearby components of the complex, including several habitation middens...
Results of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference Sexual Harassment Survey (2016)
In the Fall of 2014, the Southeastern Archaeological Conference sponsored a sexual harassment survey of its membership. Goals of the survey were to identify frequency and types of sexual harassment in field situations and identify consequences of such incidences for perpetrators and victims. The survey was also designed to identify if victims of sexual harassment had suffered adverse effects to their career, and to collect longitudinal data on changes in sexual harassment over time. The poster...
Shaft Tombs in the Caddo World (2016)
Shaft tombs are an interesting McCurtain Phase (1300-1700 ACE) mortuary ritual in the Caddo region. The tombs are dug into the center of preexisting mounds and around 8-10 individuals are supine, primarily interred, and facing the same direction. The shaft tombs could have been constructed as a revitalization ceremony after a period of abandonment from a site. Alternatively, the tombs could have functioned as a termination event at the end of an occupation for these sites. However, the purpose...