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Procedings of the Second International Conference on Pedo-Archaeology
This multi-article volume was edited by Albert C. Goodyear, John E. Foss, and Kenneth E. Sassaman.
Contents:
Preface - Albert C. Goodyear and John E. Foss.....v Stratigraphy and Soil Chronosequence of the Brasstown Sites: A Model for Age Assessment of Alluvium in the Southern Blue Ridge, U.S.A. - David S. Leigh and John S. Cable.....1 Stratigraphy and Landscape Evolution: Implications for the Development of Cultural/Temporal Models in the Sand Hills of West-Central Louisiana - Charles Cantley and John E. Foss.....11 Gastrolith-Derived Stone Concentration in Deep Loess Soil of the Middle and Lower Mississippi River Valley, U.S.A. - Troy Cox.....27 Bioturbation to Bulldozers: The Myth of Undisturbed Sites and Its Implications in Cultural Resource Studies - Thomas J. Padgett.....35 Evidence for Subsurface Translocation of Ceramic Artifacts in a Vertisol in Eastern Crete, Greece - Michael W. Morris, John T. Ammons, and Photeinos Santas.....41 Variable Artifact Displacement and Replacement in a Holocene Eolian Feature - Joel Gunn and John E. Foss.....53 Prehistory and Holocene Floodplain Evolution Along the Inner Coastal Plain of Virginia: A Case Study from the Chickahominy Drainage - Joseph Schuldenrein and Dennis Blanton.....75 Soil Moisture Environments of Pre-Columbian Agricultural Terraces and Settlement, Rio Gavilan, Chihuahua, Mexico - Laurance C. Herold and Reuben F. Miller.....97 Soils of Caracol, Belize and Their Significance to Agriculture and Land Use - C. L. Coultas.....103 Pedo-Archaeology of the Mammoth Meadow Fan/Terrace Workshop Site in Southwestern Montana - Marvin T. Beatty, Mort D. Turner, Joanne C. Turner, and Robson Bonnichsen.....111 Considerations about Fragipans of the Eastern United States - Antonio V. Segovia.....121 Nahanada Site Pedology and the Archaeological Record Morphology - Kathleen E. Callum .....125 A Conceptual Methodology for Studying the Geoarchaeology of Fluvial Systems - Robin L Denson.....139 Application of the Newly Developed OCR Dating Procedure in Pedo-Archaeological Studies - Douglas S. Frink.....149https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/archanth_anthro_studies/1007/thumbnail.jp
Proceedings of the Third Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 9-11, 2008
341 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm.
"Issued June 23, 2010."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-341).The late Archaic of the American Southeast is typically described as a time of population growth, innovative developments in subsistence strategies, and increased social complexity. Although it is difficult to generalize, many early Woodland communities are characterized as relatively small scale, fairly mobile foragers organized into unranked or minimally ranked lineages and clans. Early Woodland groups also seem to be more socially isolated than their late Archaic predecessors, with a decline in regional exchange networks. The papers in this volume were presented at a conference entitled "What Happened in the Late Archaic?" which was co-sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and the St. Catherines Island Foundation and held on St. Catherines Island (Georgia), May 9-11, 2008. The Third Caldwell Conference invited the participants to engage the appropriate archaeological data from the American Southeast, specifically addressing the nature of change during the late Archaic-early Woodland transition. This volume consists of a dozen substantive papers, followed by three discussant contributions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Trend, tradition, and transition at the end of the Archaic / Tristram R. Kidder -- "Nothing but the river's flood" : late Archaic diaspora or disengagement in the lower Mississippi Valley and southeastern North America / Jon L. Gibson -- The two rings of St. Catherines Island : some preliminary results from the St. Catherines and McQueen shell rings / Matthew C. Sanger and David Hurst Thomas -- Two late Archaic period shell rings, St. Simon's Island, Georgia / Rochelle A. Marrinan -- The Archaic above Choctawhatchee Bay : hydrodynamics, adaptation, and abandonment / Rebecca Saunders -- Prehistoric landscapes of complexity : Archaic and Woodland period shell works, shell rings, and tree islands of the Everglades, South Florida / Margo Schwadron -- Shell rings and other settlement features as indicators of cultural continuity between the late Archaic and Woodland periods of coastal Florida / Michael Russo -- "What happened to the southeastern Archaic?" : a perspective from St. Catherines Island / David Hurst Thomas -- Leaving the rings : shell ring abandonment and the end of the late Archaic / Matthew C. Sanger -- The rhythms of space-time and the making of monuments and places during the Archaic / Victor D. Thompson -- Getting from the late Archaic to early Woodland in three middle valleys (those being the Savannah, St. Johns, and Tennessee) / Kenneth E. Sassaman -- Late Archaic? : what the hell happened to the middle Archaic? / Joe Saunders -- Thoughts on the late Archaic-early Woodland transition on the Georgia and South Carolina coasts / Chester B. DePratter -- Mounds, middens, and rapid climate change during the Archaic-Woodland transition in the southeastern United States / William H. Marquardt -- The end of the southeastern Archaic : regional interaction and archaeological interpretation / David G. Anderson
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Ceramic vessel technology was first developed or adopted in three separate areas of the American Southeast between 4500 and 3000 years ago. Temporal lags in the adoption of pottery in these areas are evident, while pottery was not widely used in the intervening areas of the Southeast for nearly 2000 years. I examine variables related to the production and exchange of alternative cooking technologies to interpret the variegated spatial and temporal patterns of early pottery use. I take as a case study the development and adoption of fiber-tempered pottery in the Savannah River Valley region. The antiquity of pottery in the region is unparalleled, but the rate of local acceptance was extremely slow. Prior to and during the time early pottery was available, an indirect-heat cooking technology involving soapstone was utilized in the central portion of the valley. I present evidence to support the argument that the social relations surrounding the production and distribution of soapstone had an inhibiting effect on the rates and pathways of pottery adoption in the region. Empirical support for this argument is drawn from technofunctional analyses of pottery and its nonceramic cooking alternatives, and from distributional analyses of soapstone and pottery. Evidence for the mechanical performance and use-wear of pottery is employed to identify functional attributes of pot design and use on over 1200 vessels from 30 assemblages. I compare these data with distributional patterns of soapstone to show that: (1) pots were rapidly developed for use over fire in areas outside the sphere of soapstone exchange, (2) pottery was not readily adopted by individuals directly involved in the production and exchange of soapstone, and (3) when finally adopted by individuals using soapstone, pots were used simply as containers for indirect-heat cooking. Results of the case study are applied to the greater Southeast, where I argue that the Poverty Point commerce in soapstone vessels was a primary deterrent to the widespread adoption of pottery. I offer an alternative model for the westward spread of pottery which emphasizes the role of social integration on the periphery of Poverty Point exchange