Teaching Pauketat: Changing Research Perspectives in Modern Archaeology

Summary

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 on Cahokia, climate change, practice theory, deep history, and cosmology, his books were routinely assigned in their entirety, especially Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions, which provides an excellent overview of southeastern archaeology, and scholarly thinking about the emergence of complex society not only in the Southeast, but worldwide. Pauketat’s legacy is enormous, as a fieldworker, synthesizer, theoretician, and administrator, and his voluminous writings and regular attendance and presentations at meetings have ensured his contributions are well known and lasting. As someone who has interacted with him on and off for 40 years, from his early days in graduate school at the University of Michigan, in the field in Arkansas in the late 1980s, and through the sharing and reading of manuscripts in the decades since, Timothy R. (Tim) Pauketat has had a major influence on my career, and I am the better for it, as indeed are all who have followed his work.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat

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Abstract Id(s): 50860