Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the course of his career, Timothy R. Pauketat has made many groundbreaking contributions to precolonial North American archaeology. In this paper, we explore the implications of three of his most prominent contributions for understanding the Mississippian occupation of the Illinois River...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Lekson.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tim Pauketat published Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City in 2009. That same year, I published History of the Ancient Southwest. While differently structured, the books shared similar goals: to place their protagonists – Cahokia and Southwest – in context(s), epistemologically and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Baires.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The lengthy and illustrious career of Timothy Pauketat has spanned decades of research in the American Bottom of Illinois. Rooted in meticulous methodology and a “dirt archaeologist” at heart, Tim’s theoretical scholarship has ranged broadly. Here we focus on the two decades in which Tim’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan Buchanan.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological approaches to warfare and violence have traditionally been influenced by socioevolutionary theoretical frameworks. The research stemming from these perspectives have focused on identifying external factors that caused warfare, the role of violence in the evolution of complex...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alleen Betzenhauser.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists tend to focus on the most visible sites and the elites and leaders who directed their construction, at the expense of understanding the lived experiences of the vast majority who built and supported them. While much of Tim Pauketat’s research centers on Cahokia, North America’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Lucero.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. My intellectual journey with Tim Pauketat began in early 2005 when we met at a School for Advanced Research short seminar on the archaeology of ritual, memory, and materiality. The seminar was as success and led to a long intellectual friendship, a common theme of which was our mutual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan M. Alt.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The pace of urban development and destruction of sites around Cahokia prompted Tim Pauketat to develop and complete several large-scale excavation projects in what became known as the Richland complex. These excavations garnered large quantities of data while generating and refining...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlyn Antoniuk.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cahokia rose as a city around 1050 AD, and during the early years of its founding, Cahokian people, practices, and objects were sent to distant locations, often engaging with important landscapes. The Carson site in northwest Mississippi is one such location that shows clear signs of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Weiner.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While best known for his work at Cahokia and across the broader Mississippian World, Tim Pauketat has also made a catalytic and lasting impact on the archaeology of the U.S. Southwest and Chaco Canyon in particular. Pauketat has brought fresh, theoretically rich perspectives to Chaco...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Watts Malouchos.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Timothy R. Pauketat has left an indelible mark on the field of archaeology, shaping theory and method and challenging archaeologists to investigate broad relationships between history and humanity. For Tim, archaeology should always be about big questions and big histories, about...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Skousen.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of Timothy Pauketat’s many contributions to the field of archaeology is his incorporation of theory into his work. For Tim, theory is not a thing, but the way one sees and approaches the world and actively generates unique narratives and histories in correspondence with archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Anderson.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For the last twenty years, whenever I taught advanced seminars in the Archaeology of the First Peoples of the Southeast, North American Precontact Archaeology, the Development of Complex Society, or Archaeological Theory, the work of Timothy R. Pauketat played a prominent role. Besides papers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Butler.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Timothy R. Pauketat is a storyteller and a story maker. Throughout his distinguished career, Tim connects big histories with robust data through approachable storytelling. As a story maker, Tim entangled a rather large, and most often, very odd cast of characters who each have their own...