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  • Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households

    Series series Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives
    Explores the archaeology of Mississippian communities and households using new data and advances in method and theoryPublished in 1995, Mississippian Communities and Households, edited by J. Daniel Rogers and Bruce D. Smith, was a foundational text that advanced southeastern archaeology in significant ways and brought household-level archaeology to the forefront of the field. Reconsidering ... Leer más

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  • Between Contacts and Colonies

    Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast

    This collection of essays brings together diverse approaches to the analysis of Native American culture in the protohistoric periodFor most Native American peoples of the Southeast, almost two centuries passed between first contact with European explorers in the 16th century and colonization by whites in the 18th century—a temporal span commonly referred to as the Protohistoric period. A recent ... Leer más

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  • The Juan Pardo Expeditions

    Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568

    An early Spanish explorer’s account of American Indians.This volume mines the Pardo documents to reveal a wealth of information pertaining to Pardo’s routes, his encounters and interactions with native peoples, the social, hierarchical, and political structures of the Indians, and clues to the ethnic identities of Indians known previously only through archaeology. The new afterword reveals recent ... Leer más

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  • Center Places and Cherokee Towns

    Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians

    Examines how architecture and other aspects of the built environment, such as hearths, burials, and earthen mounds, formed center places within the Cherokee cultural landscapeIn Center Places and Cherokee Towns, Christopher B. Rodning opens a panoramic vista onto protohistoric Cherokee culture. He posits that Cherokee households and towns were anchored within their cultural and natural landscapes ... Leer más

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    Forging Southeastern Identities explores the many ways archaeologists and ethnohistorians define and trace the origins of Native Americans’ collective social identity.Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of time—from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries ... Leer más

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  • Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

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