Ancient Lifeways but Not Archaic Approaches: Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Researching the Earliest Record of the American Southeast

Summary

This is an abstract from the "*SE The State of Theory in Southeastern Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

We review contributions of archaeologists studying the Pleistocene and Early Holocene records in the American Southeast. Researchers expand on a variety of theoretical approaches, including the evolutionary theories of human behavioral ecology and cultural transmission, technological organization, and gender archaeology. While still rooted in processual archaeology, great efforts have been made to build and test relational analogies, and major contributions of this work include experimental approaches to technology and the gathering and modeling of paleoenvironmental data. This work has implications for understanding climate-induced site destruction and resilience and social implications for connecting with and respecting ancestral histories of indigenous communities.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• *SE The State of Theory in Southeastern Archaeology

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Abstract Id(s): 39253.0