Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast
Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast
The Early and Middle Woodland periods (1000 BCE—500 CE) in North America witnessed remarkable cross-cultural social interactions as well as novel interactions between people and the physical world. Using case studies from Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, and Tennessee, this volume sheds new light on these dynamic and complex social landscapes. Fourteen in-depth case studies incorporate empirical data with theoretical concepts such as ritual, aggregation, and place-making, highlighting the variability and common themes in the relationships between people, landscapes, and the built environment that characterize this period of North American native life in the Southeast. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
Provides a broad, multi-scalar view of Adena/Hopewell and human interaction over a variety of landscapes in the Southeast. . . . [A] much-needed new perspective.’—Journal of Anthropological Research ‘The articles use both U.S. and British views of landscape: the former focuses on rigorously empirical investigations of human-environment interaction, while the latter asks what are the myriad ways past people shaped, cognized, and dwelled in their worlds. . . . Recommended.’—Choice ‘Illustrate[s] how landscape perspectives are leading to new insights into the past lifeways that created newly discovered and several quite well known archaeological sites across the southeastern United States.’—Florida Historical Quarterly
This is the first volume in a decade to address the Woodland period in the Southeast. The research is fresh and reports new information and interpretations gleaned from a variety of sources—new excavations, geophysics, grey literature, older collections—and covers a range of studies from single sites to specific archaeological complexes to interactions among complexes. '—Lynne P. Sullivan, coeditor of Mississippian Mortuary Practices 'This volume fills an important gap in Southeast archaeology, the Early and Middle Woodland periods. It contains the best that the current generation of archaeologists has to offer, set in the context of the broader landscape of regional archaeology.'—Dean R. Snow, author of Archaeology of Native North America
Alice P. Wright is an anthropological archaeologist at the University of Michigan’s Museum of Anthropology. Edward R. Henry is assistant professor of anthropology at Colorado State University.
Content List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii 1. Introduction: Emerging Approaches to the Landscapes of the Early and Middle Woodland Southeast 1 Alice P. Wright and Edward R. Henry Part 1. Extensive Landscapes: Between and Beyond Monuments 2. The Early–Middle Woodland Domestic Landscape in Kentucky 19 Darlene Applegate 3. The Adena Mortuary Landscape: Off-Mound Rituals and Burial Mounds 45 David Pollack and Eric J. Schlarb 4. Like a Dead Dog: Strategic Ritual Choice in the Mortuary Enterprise 56 R. Berle Clay 5. The Early and Middle Woodland of the Upper Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee 71 Jay D. Franklin, Meagan Dennison, Maureen A. Hays, Jeffrey Navel, and Andrew D. Dye Part 2. Monumental Landscapes: Mound and Earthwork Sites 6. Winchester Farm: A Small Adena Enclosure in Central Kentucky 91 Richard W. Jefferies, George R. Milner, and Edward R. Henry 7. Persistent Place, Shifting Practice: The Premound Landscape at the Garden Creek Site, North Carolina 108 Alice P. Wright 8. Biltmore Mound and the Appalachian Summit Hopewell 122 Larry R. Kimball, Thomas R. Whyte, and Gary D. Crites 9. The Woodland Period Cultural Landscape of the Leake Site Complex 138 Scot Keith 10. The Creation of Ritual Space at the Jackson Landing Site in Coastal Mississippi 153 Edmond A. Boudreaux III Part 3. Landscapes of Interaction 11. Late Middle Woodland Settlement and Ritual at the Armory Site 167 Paul N. Eubanks 12. Constituting Similarity and Difference in the Deep South: The Ritual and Domestic Landscapes of Kolomoki, Crystal River, and Fort Center 181 Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Victor D. Thompson 13. Ritual Life and Landscape at Tunacunnhee 196 Victoria G. Dekle 14. Swift Creek and Weeden Island Mortuary Landscapes of Interaction 204 Neill J. Wallis 15. Working Out Adena Political Organization and Variation from the Ritual Landscape in the Kentucky Bluegrass 219 Edward R. Henry Part 4. Woodland Landscapes in Historical and Regional Perspective 16. On Ceremonial Landscapes 237 James A. Brown 17. Social Landscapes of Early and Middle Woodland Peoples in the Southeast 247 David G. Anderson References 263 Wright and Henry List of Contributors 311 Index 315
