Archaeology Of The Appalachian Highlands / Edition 1

by Lynne P. Sullivan, Susan C. Prezzano

Overview

“This volume is a major synthesis of the archaeology of the Appalachian region and includes much material that was previously unpublished or underpublished. The information and interpretations presented will be very useful for archaeologists working in eastern North American who are interested in this diverse region.”—C. Clifford Boyd, Jr., Radford University

“Archaeology of the Appalachian Highlands reveals that every part of Appalachia yields archaeological evidence significant to understanding the broad prehistoric sweep of the American Indians. In this most welcome volume, editors Lynn Sullivan and Susan Prezzano have assembled the most current interpretations of archaeological theory, technology, and cultural history as these occour in the highlands of eastern North America. . . . This volume to shatteer myths about Appalachian and its past.”—David S. Brose, Director, Schiele Museum of Natural History

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781572331426
Publisher:	University of Tennessee Press
Publication date:	12/12/2001
Edition description:	First Edition, First Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

The Editors: Lynne P. Sullivan is curator of archaeology at the University of Tennessee’s Frank H. McClung Museum and research associate professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee. She is editor of The Prehistory of the Chickamauga Basin in Tennessee, also published by the University of Tennessee Press.

Susan C. Prezzano is an associate professor of anthropology at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. She is coauthor of Excavations at the Boland Site, 1984-1987: A Preliminary Report and a contributor to Gender in Ancient America.

Table of Contents

	Preface	xiv
	Acknowledgments	xvii
	Introduction: The Concept of Appalachian Archaeology	xix
Part I	Ridges, Rises, Caves, and Rocks: Aspects of the Appalachian Environment
1.	Hilltops of the Allegheny Plateau: A Preferred Microenvironment for Late Prehistoric Horticulturalists	3
2.	Prehistoric Land-Use Patterns in North-Central Connecticut: A Matter of Scale	19
3.	Geomorphology of Upland Regolith in the Unglaciated Appalachian Plateau: Implications for Prehistoric Archaeology	31
4.	Toward an Understanding of Prehistoric Cave Art in Southern Appalachia	49
Part II	The Earliest Highlanders: Paleoindian and Archaic Period Research
5.	Paleoindian Populations in Trans-Appalachia: The View from Pennsylvania	67
6.	Paleoindian Occupations of the Southern Appalachians: A View from the Cumberland Plateau of Kentucky and Tennessee	88
7.	Articulating Hidden Histories of the Mid-Holocene in the Southern Appalachians	103
8.	Adding Complexity to Late Archaic Research in the Northeastern Appalachians	121
Part III	Subregional Integration, Interaction, and Diversity in Later Prehistory
9.	Early Woodland Burial Mounds of Kentucky: Symbolic Elements in the Cultural Landscape	137
10.	Late Woodland Palisaded Villages from Ontario to the Carolinas: Their Potential for Accurate Population Estimates	149
11.	Late Prehistoric Cultures of the Upper Susquehanna Valley	168
12.	Subsistence-Settlement Change and Continuity in Western Pennsylvania	177
13.	Living on the Edge: Mississippian Settlement in the Cumberland Gap Vicinity	198
14.	Political Economy in Late Prehistoric Southern Appalachia	222
15.	Architecture and Landscape in Late Prehistoric and Protohistoric Western North Carolina	238
Part IV	Native Highlanders and Europeans
16.	The Schaghticoke Nation and the Moravian Movement: Tribal Revitalization without Assimilation in Highland Connecticut	252
17.	The Lessons of Northern Iroquoian Demography	264
18.	Cherokee Archaeology since the 1970s	278
Part V	Perspectives on Appalachian Archaeology
19.	Engendering Appalachian Archaeology	300
20.	Geography, History, and the Appalachian Axis Mundi	306
21.	An Evolutionary View of Appalachian Archaeology	311
22.	Ridges, Rises, and Rocks; Caves, Coves, Terraces, and Hollows: Appalachian Archaeology at the Millennium	319
23.	A Conscious Appalachian Archaeology	323
	References	333
	Contributors	405
	Index	407