Histories of Southeastern Archaeology

by Tushingham, Shannon; Hill, Jane; McNutt, Charles H.; Muller, Jon (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780817311391
• ISBN10: 0817311394
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

This volume provides a comprehensive, broad-based overview, including first-person accounts, of the development and conduct of archaeology in the Southeast over the past three decades. Histories of Southeastern Archaeologyoriginated as a symposium at the 1999 Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) organized in honor of the retirement of Charles H. McNutt following 30 years of teaching anthropology. Written for the most part by members of the first post-depression generation of southeastern archaeologists, this volume offers a window not only into the archaeological past of the United States but also into the hopes and despairs of archaeologists who worked to write that unrecorded history or to test scientific theories concerning culture. The contributors take different approaches, each guided by experience, personality, and location, as well as by the legislation that shaped the practical conduct of archaeology in their area. Despite the state-by-state approach, there are certain common themes, such as the effect (or lack thereof) of changing theory in Americanist archaeology, the explosion of contract archaeology and its relationship to academic archaeology, goals achieved or not achieved, and the common ground of SEAC. This book tells us how we learned what we now know about the Southeast's unwritten past. Of obvious interest to professionals and students of the field, this volume will also be sought after by historians, political scientists, amateurs, and anyone interested in the South. Additional reviews: "A unique publication that presents numerous historical, topical, and personal perspectives on the archaeological heritage of the Southeast."- Southeastern Archaeology

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Precis	ix
Charles H. McNutt
Introduction	xv
Shannon Tushingham
Jane Hill
PART I: TOPICS
Excerpts from ``Bringing the Past Alive'' : Interviews with William Haag and George Quimby	3	(10)
William Haag
George Quimby
Ann F. Ramenofsky
Museum Paradigms and the History of Southeastern Archaeology	13	(13)
David S. Brose
Forty Years of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex	26	(9)
James A. Brown
Historical Archaeology in the Southeast, 1930-2000	35	(16)
Stanley South
Kathleen Deagan
Paleogeography and Geomorphology in the Lower Mississippi Valley	51	(12)
Roger T. Saucier
PART II: STATES
Some Ruminations on the Archaeology of Southeast Missouri	63	(14)
Stephen Williams
Pot Hunters, Salvage, and Science in Arkansas, 1900-2000	77	(11)
Hester A. Davis
Louisiana Archaeology: A Selective History	88	(11)
Robert W. Neuman
Rediscovering Illinois: The Development of Archaeology in Illinois	99	(16)
Jon Muller
The History of Archaeology in West Virginia	115	(11)
Bettye J. Broyles
Virginia's Archaeology: A Look Back and a Look Ahead	126	(10)
Howard A. MacCord Sr.
North Carolina Archaeology in Historical Perspective	136	(9)
Bennie C. Keel
A History of Archaeological Research in South Carolina	145	(15)
David G. Anderson
Forty Years of Kentucky Archaeology or Incidents of Recent Archaeological History in a Border State: A Review	160	(12)
R. Berle Clay
A History of Tennessee Archaeology	172	(11)
Charles H. Faulkner
One Hundred Years of Archaeology in Mississippi	183	(11)
Jay K. Johnson
Alabama Archaeology in the Twentieth Century	194	(15)
John A. Walthall
Vernon J. Knight Jr.
Gregory Waselkov
A Personal Perspective on Georgia Archaeology at the End of the Twentieth Century	209	(10)
Lewis Larson
Florida Archaeology: A Recent History	219	(14)
Jerald T. Milanich
PART III: COMMENTARY
Histories by the Archaeologist, for the Archaeologist	233	(10)
Kenneth E. Sassaman
References Cited	243	(108)
Acknowledgments	351	(2)
Contributors	353	(10)
Index	363