The Archaeological Northeast

by Mary Ann Levine, Michael Nassaney, Kenneth E. Sassaman

Overview

Despite the advances made in archaeology over the past generation, the Northeast remains the most misunderstood of all the archaeological regions of North America. With a complex environmental history shaped by ice sheets from the last glaciation, and highly acidic soils characteristic of the area, the kinds of organic artifacts found in other areas have been destroyed in the Northeast. The result is a sometimes evasive, particularly complicated, and always fragmentary archaeological record. As the chapters in this volume demonstrate, the Northeast is a region that inspires the development of innovative research designs and thoughtful and relevant questions. Each author has been a graduate student of Dena Dincauze, who has done much to foster understanding of the prehistory of Northeastern North America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897895170
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/30/1999
Series:	Native Peoples of the Americas
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

MARY ANN LEVINE is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania.

KENNETH E. SASSAMAN is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

MICHAEL S. NASSANEY is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Alice B. Kehoe
Preface
Ancient People, Ancient Landscapes
Exploration, Colonization, and Settling-In: The Bull Brook Phase, Antecedents, and Descendants by Mary Lou Curran
A Light but Lasting Footprint: Human Influences on the Holocene Landscape by George P. Nicholas
Paleoenvironmental Context for the Middle Archaic Occupation of Cape Cod, Massachusetts by Frederick J. Dunford
Rethinking Typology and Technology
"By Any Other Name…": A Reconsideration of Middle Archaic Lithic Technology and Typology in the Northeast by John R. Cross
A Southeastern Perspective on Soapstone Vessel Technology in the Northeast by Kenneth E. Sassaman
Ceramic Research in New England: Breaking the Typological Mold by Elizabeth S. Chilton
Critical Perspectives on Entrenched Assumptions
Myth Busting and Prehistoric Land Use in the Green Mountains of Vermont by David M. Lacy
Critical Theory in the Backwater of New England: Retelling the Third Millennium by Elena Filios
Fishing, Farming, and Finding the Village Sites: Centering Late Woodland New England Algonquians by Robert J. Hasenstab
Community and Confederation: A Political Geography of Contact-Period Southern New England by Eric S. Johnson
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Northeastern Prehistory
History of Zooarchaeology in New England by Catherine C. Carlson
Native Copper in the Northeast: An Overview of Potential Sources Available to Indigenous Peoples by Mary Ann Levine
Radiocarbon Dating of Shell on the Southern Coast of New England by Elizabeth A. Little
Contributions from Cultural Resource Management
The Significance of the Turbaners Falls Locality in Connecticut River Valley Archaeology by Michael S. Nassaney
An Interdisciplinary Study of the John Alden Houses, 1627 and 1653, Duxbury, Massachusetts: Archaeology and Architecture by Mitchell T. Mulholland
Index

Editorial Reviews

Ably edited by the collaborative efforts of Mary Ann Levine, Kenneth E. Sassaman, and Michael S. Nassaney, The Archaeological Northeast presents an impressive collections of essays on the archaeological excursions of the American Northeast. Divided into five major sections (Ancient People, Ancient Landscapes; Rethinking Typology and Technology; Critical Perspectives on Entrenched Assumptions; Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Northeastern Prehistory; Contributions from Cultural Resource Management), is further enhanced for the reader with a section of references, and Index, and information about the editors and contributors. The Archaeological Northeast is a superbly presented, scholarly survey and an invaluable, seminal, addition to archaeological studies reading lists, Native American studies curriculum supplements, and prehistory of Northeastern North American library reference collections. The Archaeological Northeast is also available in hardcover (517-7, $75.00).
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