*SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "*SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Two decades ago, Weinstein et al. (2003:103) noted that “Poverty Point has been dug into, written about, and speculated about probably more often than any other site in Louisiana or the entire Lower Mississippi Valley.” Since then, fieldwork and collections research at the Poverty Point site and, more broadly, at culturally affiliated sites in the US Southeast have continued to enhance our understanding of the Poverty Point cultural phenomenon. These recent and ongoing investigations explore questions about the landscapes, subsistence, material culture, and chronology of the Poverty Point culture. The data reveal new levels of complexity that challenge archaeological models of site development and indigenous lifeways during the Late Archaic period.
Other Keywords
Archaic •
Archaeometry & Materials Analysis •
Trade and exchange •
Monumentality •
Material Culture and Technology •
Poverty Point •
Subsistence and Foodways •
Lithic Analysis •
Ideology •
Geoarchaeology
Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
Delaware (State / Territory) •
Georgia (State / Territory) •
Mississippi (State / Territory) •
Tennessee (State / Territory) •
North Carolina (State / Territory) •
Kentucky (State / Territory) •
West Virginia (State / Territory) •
Virginia (State / Territory)
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Characterizing Lithic Networks during the Archaic Period in the Lower Mississippi River Valley (2024)