Early and middle woodland landscapes of the Southeast /edited by Alice P. Wright and Edward R. Henry. 

 - Gainesville :  University Press of Florida,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource 
 - Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Emerging Approaches to the Landscapes of the Early and Middle Woodland Southeast; Part 1. Extensive Landscapes: Between and Beyond Monuments; 2. The Early-Middle Woodland Domestic Landscape in Kentucky; 3. The Adena Mortuary Landscape: Off-Mound Rituals and Burial Mounds; 4. Like a Dead Dog: Strategic Ritual Choice in the Mortuary Enterprise; 5. The Early and Middle Woodland of the Upper Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee; Part 2. Monumental Landscapes: Mound and Earthwork Sites. 6. Winchester Farm: A Small Adena Enclosure in Central Kentucky7. Persistent Place, Shifting Practice: The Premound Landscape at the Garden Creek Site, North Carolina; 8. Biltmore Mound and the Appalachian Summit Hopewell; 9. The Woodland Period Cultural Landscape of the Leake Site Complex; 10. The Creation of Ritual Space at the Jackson Landing Site in Coastal Mississippi; Part 3. Landscapes of Interaction; 11. Late Middle Woodland Settlement and Ritual at the Armory Site. 12. Constituting Similarity and Difference in the Deep South: The Ritual and Domestic Landscapes of Kolomoki, Crystal River, and Fort Center13. Ritual Life and Landscape at Tunacunnhee; 14. Swift Creek and Weeden Island Mortuary Landscapes of Interaction; 15. Working Out Adena Political Organization and Variation from the Ritual Landscape in the Kentucky Bluegrass; Part 4. Woodland Landscapes in Historical and Regional Perspective; 16. On Ceremonial Landscapes; 17. Social Landscapes of Early and Middle Woodland Peoples in the Southeast; References; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E. FG; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y. 
<br/><br/> The Early and Middle Woodland periods (1000 BCE-500 CE) were remarkable for their level of culture contact and interaction in pre-Columbian North America. This volume, featuring case studies from Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, and Tennessee, sheds new light on the various approaches to the study of the dynamic and complex social landscapes of these eras. Essays by well-known and up-and-coming scholars incorporate empirical data with social organizational concepts such as ritual, cultural, and social places, highlighting the variability and common themes in th. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813048475 9781299864948 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Excavations (Archaeology)--Southern States.<br/>Mound-builders--Southern States.<br/>Adena culture--Southern States.<br/>Woodland culture--Southern States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E99  / .E275 2013