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Time: MWF, 10:00-10:50 A.M
Place: Anthropology Bldg., Room 109
Description: The purpose of this course is to provide students with an in-depth and intensive knowledge of the archaeology and culture history of the southeastern United States. The title of the course is a bit deceptive; the spatial boundaries of the study area actually extend into the mid continental portion of the nation as well as the Southeast as it is traditionally defined.
Lectures will focus on providing students with an understanding of prehistoric events and developments as they can be seen in the archaeological record. The course will focus on the region's culture history, following a traditional chronological format. We will begin with the earliest known inhabitants of the region and will continue through to the Removal period in the early 1800s. Although the emphasis is on culture history, we will explore important issues in Southeastern archaeology throughout the course. These topics generally crosscut spatial and temporal boundaries and concern large-scale problems and issues relevant to understanding the evolution and development of Native American peoples in this part of North America. Class participation and in-class discussions will be emphasized in the course. By using both special case studies and broad-scale generalizations we will work to develop an understanding of the significant prehistoric patterns and processes that gave the Southeast its distinctive ethnic and cultural heritage.
Requirements: The course requires extensive reading and class participation. The focus of the course will be traditional lectures, supplemented with discussions on a regular basis. Students are expected to complete the assigned readings in advance of weekly discussions. There will be a map quiz, one book review, a term paper, and a final exam. Further information about these assignments is available on-line. Please read these pages carefully. There are no page limits on the Book Review or the Term Paper. Topics and/or books can be chosen in consultation with the instructor. I expect that all written work will be of sufficient length to cover the topic and to do justice to the archaeological research and Native American archaeological record. Final written products should be double spaced, with 1" margins (maximum). Bibliographic style MUST conform to American Antiquity format. An on-line Style Guide is available. Click Here for further information on citation styles, proper grammar, and suggestions on how to write an effective term paper.
Readings: The text for the class is Archaeology of the Southeastern United States, by J. Bense (Academic Press 1994). This book covers the prehistory of the region from Paleo-Indian (12,000 BP) to WWI, so it is very general in scope. We will supplement this text with numerous readings drawn from journals, books, contract reports, and web sites. The readings will be placed on Departmental Reserve (next to the secretary’s desk).
Grades: Grades will be based on a map quiz (10%), one book review (10%), the final exam (35%), a final term paper (40%), and class participation and discussion (5%).
The Map Quiz will be held on September 11. The Book Review is due October 25. The first draft of the Final Term Paper is due November 20. The revised and completed final draft is due at the end of the final exam, Thursday December 14.
8/30/00 Introduction 9/1/00 Cultural Geography &
Ecology 9/6/00 Cultural Geography &
Ecology 9/8/00 Cultural Geography &
Ecology 9/11/00 Historical Ethnography Hudson
1976 Ch. 1;
[Map
Quiz] 9/13/00 Historical Ethnography 9/15/00 History of Research 9/18/00 History of Research 9/20/00 Paleo-Indian 922/00 Paleo-Indian 9/25/00 Paleo-Indian 9/27/00 Archaic Bense Ch.
5; Daniel
'98: Chs. 1-2, 8 (HT
Reserve) 9/29/00 Archaic 10/2/00 Archaic 10/4/00 Late Archaic Walthall
'80: Ch. 4 (HT
Reserve) 10/6/00 Late Archaic 10/9/00 Yom Kipper Holiday-- No Class 10/11/00 Poverty Point Gibson '87;
Jackson '89, '91;
Poverty
Point (link) 10/13/00 Formative and Early
Woodland Bense, Pp.
124-136; J.
Brown '86; Jenkins
& Krause '86: 30-47,
112-114 (HT Reserve) 10/16/00 Formative and Early
Woodland 10/18/00 Middle Woodland 10/20/00 Middle Woodland Brown
'79; Seeman
'79; Walthall
'80, Pp. 104-131 10/23/00 Middle Woodland Weisman '95: Chs 1, 3, &
5 10/25/00 Middle Woodland 10/27/00 Late Woodland 10/30/00 Late Woodland 11/1/00 Late Woodland 11/3/00 Late Woodland 11/6/00 Emergent Mississippian 11/8/00 SEAC
Conference-- No Class 11/10/00 SEAC
Conference-- No Class 11/13/00 Emergent Mississippian 11/15/00 Emergent Mississippian 11/17/00 Mississippian 11/20/00 Mississippian Bense, Pp.
216-239; Knight
'90; First
Draft of Term paper Due 11/22-11/26 Thanksgiving Holiday 11/27/00 Mississippian 11/29/00 Mississippian 12/1/00 Mississippian 12/4/00 Mississippian 12/6/00 Contact to Removal 12/8/00 Contact to Removal
FINAL EXAMINATION, Thursday, Dec. 14, 1:00-5:00 PM
1996a Models of Paleoindian and Early Archaic Settlement in the Lower Southeast. In The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast, edited by D. G. Anderson and K. E. Sassaman, pp. 29-57. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
1996b Fluctuations Between Simple and Complex Chiefdoms: Cycling in the Late Prehistoric Southeast. In Political Structure and Change in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States, edited by J. F. Scarry, pp. 231-252. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
1997 The Role of Cahokia in the Evolution of Southeastern Mississippian Society. In Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World, edited by T. R. Pauketat and T. E. Emerson, pp. 248-268. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Anderson, David G., and Kenneth E. Sassaman
1996 Modeling Paleoindian and Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeast: A Historical Perspective. In The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast, edited by D. G. Anderson and K. E. Sassaman, pp. 16-28. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
1994 Archaeology of the Southeastern United States. Academic Press, San Diego.
1979 Charnel Houses and Mortuary Crypts: Disposal of the Dead in the Middle Woodland Period. In Hopewell Archaeology: The Chillicothe Conference, edited by D. S. Brose and N. o. Greber, pp. 211-219. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology Special Paper 3. Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio.
1986 Early Ceramics and Culture: A Review of Interpretations. In Early Woodland Archeology, edited by K. B. Farnsworth and T. E. Emerson, pp. 598-608. Kampsville Seminars in Archeology 2. Center for American Archeology Press, Evanston.
1994 Recent Trends in the Archaeology of the Southeastern United States. Journal of Archaeological Research 2:45-112.
1992 Chiefs, Big Men, or What?: Economy, Settlement Patterns, and Their Bearing on Adena Political Models. In Cultural Variability in Context: Woodland Settlements of the Mid-Ohio Valley, edited by M. F. Seeman, pp. 77-80. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Special Paper 7. Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio.
Dancey, William S., and Paul J. Pacheco
1997 A Community Model of Ohio Hopewell Settlement. In Ohio Hopewell Community Organization, edited by W. S. Dancey and P. J. Pacheco, pp. 3-40. Kent State University Press, Kent, OH.
1998 Hardaway Revisited. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
Davis, R. P. Stephen, Jr., and H. Trawick Ward
1991 The Evolution of Siouan Communities in Piedmont North Carolina. Southeastern Archaeology 10:40-53.
1990 The Role of the Southeast in American Archaeology. Southeastern Archaeology 9:11-22.
1990 Multiple Pathways to Farming in Precontact Eastern North America. Journal of World Prehistory 4:387-435.
1992 "Newer," "Better" Maize and the Mississippian Emergence: A Critique of Prime Mover Explanations. In Late Prehistoric Agriculture: Observations from the Midwest, edited by W. I. Woods, pp. 19-43. Studies in Illinois Archaeology 8. Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield.
1987 The Poverty Point Earthworks Reconsidered. Mississippi Archaeology 22(2):14-31.
1994 Before Their Time? Early Mounds in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Southeastern Archaeology 13:162-186.
1996 Platform-Mound Construction and the Instability of Mississippian Chiefdoms. In Political Structure and Change in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States, edited by J. F. Scarry, pp. 92-127. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Hally, David J., Marvin T. Smith, and James B. Langford, Jr.
1990 The Archaeological Realty of de Soto's Coosa. In Columbian Conseuences: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands East, edited by D. H. Thomas, pp. 121-138, vol. 2. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1976 The Southeastern Indians. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
Hudson, Charles, Marvin Smith, David J. Hally, Richard Polhemus, and Chester DePratter
1985 Coosa: A Chiefdom in the Sixteenth-Century Southeastern United States. American Antiquity 50:723-737.
1989 Poverty Point Adaptive Systems in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Subsistence Remains from the J.W. Copes Site. North American Archaeologist 10:173-204.
1991 The Trade Fair in Hunter-Gatherer Interaction: The Role of Intersocietal Trade in the Evolution of Poverty Point Culture. In Between Bands and States, edited by S. A. Gregg, pp. 265-286. Occasional Papers 9. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale.
Jenkins, Ned J., and Richard A. Kraus
1986 The Tombigbee Watershed in Southeastern Prehistory. University of Alabama Press, University.
1990 The Emergence of Mississippian Culture in the American Bottom Region. In The Mississippian Emergence, edited by B. D. Smith, pp. 113-152. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C.
Kidder, Tristram R., and Gayle J. Fritz
1993 Subsistence and Social Change in the Lower Mississippi Valley: The Reno Brake and Osceola Sites, Louisiana. Journal of Field Archeology 20:281-297.
1990 Social Organization and the Evolution of Hierarchy in Southeastern Chiefdoms. Journal of Anthropological Research 46:1-23.
1997 Some Developmental Parallels Between Cahokia and Moundville. In Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World, edited by T. R. Pauketat and T. E. Emerson, pp. 229-247. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Knight, Vernon J., Jr., and Vincas P. Steponaitis
1998 A New History of Moundville. In Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom, edited by V. J. Knight, Jr. and V. P. Steponaitis, pp. 1-25. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1996 Pinson Mounds and the Middle Woodland Period in the Midsouth and Lower Mississippi Valley. In A View from the Core: A Synthesis of Ohio Hopewell Archaeology, edited by P. J. Pacheco, pp. 370-391. Ohio Archaeological Council, Columbus.
Milanich, Jerald T., Ann S. Cordell, Vernon J. Knight, Jr., Timmothy A. Kohler, and Brenda J. Sigler-Lavelle
1984 McKeithen Weeden Island: The Culture of Northern Florida, A. D. 200-900. Academic Press, Orlando.
1989 The Southern Cult. In The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Artifacts and Analysis: The Cottonlandia Conference, edited by P. K. Galloway, pp. 11-. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Nassaney, Michael S., and Charles R. Cobb
1991 Patterns and Processes of Late Woodland Development in the Greater Southeastern United States. In Stability, Transformation, and Variation: The Late Woodland Southeast, edited by M. S. Nassaney and C. R. Cobb, pp. 285-322. Plenum Press, New York.
1991 Patterns of Change on the Western Margin of the Southeast, A. D. 600-900. In Stability, Transformation, and Variation, edited by M. S. Nassaney and C. R. Cobb, pp. 221-248. Plenum Press, New York.
Saunders, Joe W., Rolfe D. Mandel, Roger T. Saucier, E. Thurman Allen, C.T. Hallmark, Jay K. Johnson, Edwin H. Jackson, Charles M. Allen, Gary L. Stringer, Douglas S. Frink, James K. Feathers, Stephen Williams, Kristen J. Gremillion, Malcom F. Vidrine, and Reca B. Jones
1997 A Mound Complex in Louisiana at 5400-5000 Years Before the Present. Science 277:1796-1799.
1996 The Nature of Mississippian Societies. In Political Structure and Change in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States, edited by J. F. Scarry, pp. 12-24. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
1979 Feasting with the Dead: Ohio Hopewell Charnel House Ritual as a Context for Redistribution. In Hopewell Archaeology: The Chillacothe Conference, edited by D. S. Brose and N. o. Greber, pp. 39-46. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology Special Paper 3. Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio.
1984 Mississippian Expansion: Tracing the Historical Development of an Explanatory Model. Southeastern Archaeology 3:13-32.
1992 Prehistoric Plant Husbandry in Eastern North America. In Rivers of Change, edited by B. D. Smith, pp. 281-300. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C.
1980 Prehistoric Indians of the Southeast. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
1990 Trend and Tradition in Southeastern Archaeology. Southeastern Archaeology 9:43-54.
1995 Crystal River: A Ceremonial Mound Center on the Florida Gulf Coast. Florida Archaeology 8. Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research, Tallahassee.
