Seeking Our Past An Introduction to North American Archaeology Includes CD-ROM

by Neusius, Sarah W.; Gross, G. Timothy

• ISBN13: 9780195173857
• ISBN10: 0195173856
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Table of Contents

Student CD Contents	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Contributors	p. xxv
Credits	p. xxvii
Introducing North American Archaeology	p. 1
The Nature and Practice of North American Archaeology	p. 3
The Scope of This Book	p. 4
What Is North American Archaeology?	p. 5
Issues and Debates: Box 1.1 Who Were the Mound Builders?	p. 8
The North American Archaeologist	p. 13
Faces in Archaeology: Profile 1.1 W. James Judge, Professor and Director of the Chaco Project	p. 14
Faces in Archaeology: Profile 1.2 Lynne Sebastian, Archaeologist and Historic Preservationist	p. 18
Issues and Debates: Box 1.2 Politics and Scholarship in the Investigation of New York City's African Burial Ground	p. 22
An Overview of the Archaeological Process	p. 25
Chapter Summary	p. 30
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 31
Other Resources	p. 32
Case Study	p. 32
The Pueblo Grande Project: An Example of Multidisciplinary Research in a Compliance Setting	p. 33
Culture and Environment in North America's Past	p. 43
North American Culture Areas	p. 44
Issues and Debates: Box 2.1 What Are You Called? Names and Politics	p. 45
North American Environments	p. 49
Issues and Debates: Box 2.2 Is Environmental Reconstruction an Ancillary Study?	p. 57
The Climate of North America	p. 61
The Systematics of North American Culture History	p. 67
Faces in Archaeology: Profile 2.1 Julie Stein, Archaeologist and Geoarchaeologist	p. 68
Faces in Archaeology: Profile 2.2 Robert Kelly, Archaeologist and Professor	p. 72
Themes in the Study of North America's Past	p. 77
A Final Word About Dates and Dating	p. 81
Chapter Summary	p. 83
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 85
Other Resources	p. 85
Case Study	p. 86
It Takes a Team: Interdisciplinary Research at the Koster Site	p. 86
The North American Past	p. 95
Peopling of the Americas	p. 97
When Were the Americas Settled?	p. 100
The Clovis-First Scenario	p. 103
Clues to the Past: Exhibit 3.1 Fluted Points: The Original American Invention?	p. 104
Does the Clovis-First Scenario Account for All the Evidence?	p. 108
Key Puzzles in the Data on Early Settlement	p. 112
Issues and Debates: Box 3.1 Why Is the Kennewick Case So Significant?	p. 123
Paleoindian Adaptations	p. 127
Chapter Summary	p. 133
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 134
Other Resources	p. 134
Case Study
Sea Change: The Paleocoastal Occupations of Daisy Cave	p. 135
Foragers of the North	p. 144
Definition of the Area	p. 145
The Environment	p. 146
Early Cultures	p. 149
Clues to the Past: Exhibit 4.1 Microblades	p. 151
Archaic	p. 152
Arctic Small Tool Tradition	p. 158
Later Cultures of the Arctic: Dorset, Norton, and Thule	p. 163
Later Cultures of the Subarctic	p. 173
Historic Period	p. 174
Issues and Debates: Box 4.1 How Far Did the Vikings Get?	p. 175
Chapter Summary	p. 179
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 180
Other Resources	p. 181
Case Study
From Sites to Social Evolution: The Study of Emergent Complexity in the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska	p. 181
Paths to Complexity on the Northwest Coast	p. 192
Definition of the Area	p. 194
The Environment	p. 195
Issues and Debates: Box 5.1 How Many Old Scarred Trees Do We Need?	p. 198
Early Cultures	p. 199
Archaic	p. 200
Pacific Period	p. 204
Clues to the Past: Exhibit 5.1 Basketry and Cordage	p. 212
Modern Period	p. 219
Chapter Summary	p. 221
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 222
Other Resources	p. 223
Case Study	p. 223
Archaeological/Anthropological-Native American Coordination: An Example of Sharing the Research on the Northwest Coast of North America	p. 224
Rivers, Roots, and Rabbits: The Plateau	p. 233
Definition of the Area	p. 234
The Environment	p. 237
Early Cultures	p. 239
Issues and Debates: Box 6.1 Volcanoes and Human Settlement	p. 240
Middle Period	p. 245
Clues to the Past: Exhibit 6.1 Pithouses	p. 247
Late Period	p. 249
Modern Period	p. 253
Chapter Summary	p. 256
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 257
Other Resources	p. 258
Case Study	p. 259
The Miller Site: Four Seasons of Backwards Archaeology on Strawberry Island	p. 260
Diversity and Complexity in California	p. 268
Definition of the Area	p. 270
The Environment	p. 270
Early Cultures	p. 274
Foragers: The Archaic Pattern	p. 277
Complexity: The Pacific Period	p. 280
Issues and Debates: Box 7.1 Chumash Complexity	p. 282
Pacific Period Lifeways	p. 288
Clues to the Past: Exhibit 7.1 Bedrock Milling Features	p. 288
Historic Period	p. 292
Chapter Summary	p. 299
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 300
Other Resources	p. 301
Case Study	p. 301
Cultures in Contact at Colony Ross	p. 302
Mobility, Flexibility, and Persistence in the Great Basin	p. 310
Definition of the Area	p. 311
The Environment	p. 312
Early Cultures: The Pre-Archaic	p. 317
Archaic	p. 318
Issues and Debates: Box 8.1 Projectile Points and Time	p. 326
Clues to the Past: Exhibit 8.1 Rabbit Nets	p. 329
The Fremont	p. 330
Numic Peoples and Their Spread	p. 335
Protohistoric and Historic Periods	p. 337
Chapter Summary	p. 340
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 342
Other Resources	p. 342
Case Study	p. 343
Deep-Site Excavation at Gatecliff Shelter, Nevada	p. 343
Foragers and Villagers of the Southwestern Mountains, Mesas, and Deserts	p. 355
Definition of the Area	p. 356
The Environments of the Southwest	p. 359
Hunters and Foragers	p. 362
Farmers and Villagers	p. 369
Issues and Debates: Box 9.1 Interpreting the Chaco Phenomenon	p. 376
Clues to the Past: Exhibit 9.1 Fantasies on Clay: Mimbres Pottery	p. 382
Reorganization, Aggregation, and Conflict in Late Prehistory	p. 389
New Arrivals	p. 391
Historic Period	p. 393
Chapter Summary	p. 395
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 396
Other Resources	p. 397
Case Study	p. 397
Casas Grandes at the Edge of the Southwestern and Mesoamerican Worlds	p. 398
Bison Hunters and Horticulturists of the Great Plains	p. 406
Definition of the Area	p. 408
The Environment	p. 408
Early Hunters of the Plains	p. 412
Plains Archaic	p. 416
Clues to the Past: Exhibit 10.1 Hide Scrapers	p. 421
The Woodland Period on the Great Plains	p. 423
Plains Village Traditions	p. 427
Late Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northern Plains	p. 433
Issues and Debates: Box 10.1 Historic Ethnicities and the Archaeological Record	p. 434
Protohistoric and Historic Developments	p. 436
Chapter Summary	p. 440
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 441
Other Resources	p. 442
Case Study	p. 442
Investigations at Double Ditch Village, a Traditional Mandan Earthlodge Settlement	p. 442
Tribes and Chiefdoms in the Southeast	p. 452
Definition of the Area	p. 453
The Environments of the Southeast	p. 455
Hunter-Gatherers of the Distant Past	p. 458
Issues and Debates: Box 11.1 Ridges, Aisles, and the Map of Poverty Point	p. 469
Woodland Peoples Across the Southeast	p. 473
Mississippian and Other Societies of the Last Thousand Years	p. 482
Clues to the Past: Exhibit 11.1 Design Motifs and Artifacts of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex	p. 485
Protohistoric and Historic Times	p. 491
Chapter Summary	p. 495
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 497
Other Resources	p. 497
Case Study	p. 497
Mouse Creek Phase Households and Communities: Mississippian Period Towns in Southeastern Tennessee	p. 498
Foragers and Farmers of the Midwest and Upper Great Lakes	p. 508
Definition of the Area	p. 510
The Environments of the Midwest and Upper Great Lakes	p. 510
Hunters and Foragers of the Distant Past	p. 514
Woodland Farmers and Mound Builders	p. 523
Clues to the Past: Exhibit 12.1 Stone Platform Pipes	p. 528
The Mississippians and Other Late Prehistoric Peoples	p. 535
Issues and Debates: Box 12.1 How Big and Powerful Was Cahokia After All?	p. 536
The Protohistoric and Historic Periods	p. 544
Chapter Summary	p. 548
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 549
Other Resources	p. 550
Case Study	p. 550
The Hopeton Earthworks Project: Using New Technologies to Answer Old Questions	p. 550
Fishing, Foraging, and Farming in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic	p. 560
Definition of the Area	p. 562
The Environments of the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic	p. 562
Hunters and Foragers of the Distant Past	p. 567
Farming, Fishing, and Sedentism in the Early and Middle Woodland	p. 578
Late Woodland and Late Prehistoric Peoples	p. 582
Issues and Debates: Box 13.1 Iroquoian Origins	p. 586
Protohistoric and Historic Periods	p. 589
Clues to the Past: Exhibit 13.1 Iron Furnaces	p. 595
Chapter Summary	p. 597
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 599
Other Resources	p. 599
Case Study	p. 599
A New History of Maize-Bean-Squash Agriculture in the Northeast	p. 600
The Future of North American Archaeology	p. 609
North American Archaeology for the Twenty-first Century	p. 611
A Perspective on North America's Past	p. 612
Reconsidering the North American Archaeological Story	p. 614
Issues and Debates: Box 14.1 How Can We Stop Looting of Archaeological Sites?	p. 615
The Changing Discipline	p. 621
Issues and Debates: Box 14.2 Displaying the Past at Dickson Mounds	p. 626
Concluding Thoughts	p. 628
Issues and Debates: Box 14.3 Can Academia Train Archaeologists for the Twenty-first Century?	p. 631
Chapter Summary	p. 633
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 633
Other Resources	p. 634
Glossary	p. 635
Index	p. 680
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