Archaeology of the Caddo

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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This landmark volume provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the prehistory and archaeology of the Caddo peoples. The Caddos lived in the Southeastern Woodlands for more than 900 years beginning around AD 800–900, before being forced to relocate to Oklahoma in 1859. They left behind a spectacular archaeological record, including the famous Spiro Mound site in Oklahoma as well as many other mound centers, plazas, farmsteads, villages, and cemeteries.The Archaeology of the Caddo examines new advances in studying the history of the Caddo peoples, including ceramic analysis, reconstructions of settlement and regional histories of different Caddo communities, Geographic Information Systems and geophysical landscape studies at several spatial scales, the cosmological significance of mound and structure placements, and better ways to understand mortuary practices. Findings from major sites and drainages such as the Crenshaw site, mounds in the Arkansas River basin, Spiro Mound, the Oak Hill Village site, the George C. Davis site, the Willow Chute Bayou Locality, the Hughes site, Big Cypress Creek basin, and the McClelland and Joe Clark sites are also summarized and interpreted. This volume reintroduces the Caddos' heritage, creativity, and political and religious complexity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-06-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 38 mm
Vikt:780 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:536
Förlag:University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:9780803220966

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Timothy K. Perttula is the cultural resources director of Archeological & Environmental Consultants LLC. He is the editor of The Prehistory of Texas and the author of "The Caddo Nation": Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Perspectives. Chester P. Walker is the cultural resources director of Archaeo-Geophysical Associates LLC.

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"Editors Timothy Perttula and Chester Walker has compiled the most comprehensive body of research about the Caddo peoples available today."-Sandy Amazeen, Monsters and Critics -- Sandy Amazeen Monsters and Critics "A timely, useful volume... Worth having, reading, and referencing."-Don G. Wyckoff, American Antiquity -- Don G. Wyckoff American Antiquity

Innehållsförteckning

List of Figures List of Tables Foreword 1. The Archaeology of the Caddo in Southwest Arkansas, Northwest Louisiana, Eastern Oklahoma, and East Texas: An Introduction to the Volume Timothy K. Perttula 2. Form and Structure in Prehistoric Caddo Pottery Design Ann M. Early 3. At the House of the Priest: Faunal Remains from the Crenshaw Site (3MI6), Southwest Arkansas H. Edwin Jackson, Susan L. Scott, and Frank Schambach 4. Bioarchaeological Evidence of Subsistence Strategies among the East Texas Caddo Diane Wilson 5. Spiro Reconsidered: Sacred Economy at the Western Frontier of the Eastern Woodlands James A. Brown 6. Viewshed Characteristics of Caddo Mounds in the Arkansas Basin Gregory Vogel 7. Exploring Prehistoric Caddo Communities through Archaeogeophysics Chester P. Walker and Duncan P. McKinnon 8. The Evolution of a Caddo Community in Northeast Texas Timothy K. Perttula and Robert Rogers 9. Settlement Patterns and Variation in Caddo Pottery Decoration: A Case Study of the Willow Chute Bayou Locality Jeffrey S. Girard 10. Caddo in the Saline River Valley of Arkansas: The Borderlands Project and the Hughes Site Mary Beth Trubitt 11. Spatial Patterns of Caddo Mound Sites in the West Gulf Coastal Plain of Arkansas Jami J. Lockhart 12. Decisions in Landscape Setting Selection of the Prehistoric Caddo of Southeastern Oklahoma: A gis Analysis Robert L. Brooks 13. The Character of Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Caddo Communities in the Big Cypress Creek Basin of Northeast Texas Timothy K. Perttula 14. The Belcher Phase: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Caddo Occupation of the Red River Valley in Northwest Louisiana and Southwest Arkansas David B. Kelley 15. The Teran Map and Caddo Cosmology George Sabo III References Cited Contributors Index