Kendal Jackson, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Jaime A. Rogers, Ping Wang, Victor D. Thompson
Applying a coastal-geoarchaeological approach, we synthesize stratigraphic, sedimentological, mollusk-zooarchaeological, and radiometric datasets from recent excavations and sediment coring at Harbor Key (8MA15)—a shell-terraformed Native mound complex within Tampa Bay, on the central peninsular Gulf Coast of Florida. We significantly revise the chronological understanding of the site and place it among the relatively few early civic-ceremonial centers in the region. Analyses of submound contexts revealed that the early first millennium mound center was constructed atop a platform of sand and ex situ cultural shell deposits that were reworked during ancient storm landfalls around 2000 BP. We situate Harbor Key within a seascape-scale stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental framework and show that the shellworks comprise an artificial barrier protecting the leeward estuary basin (and productive inshore wetlands) from high-energy conditions of the open bay and swells from the Gulf of Mexico. The sedimentary and archaeological records attest to the long-term history of morphodynamic interaction between coastal processes and Indigenous shell terraforming in the region and suggest that early first millennium mound building in Tampa Bay was tied to the recognition and reuse of antecedent shellworks and the persistent management of encompassing cultural seascapes.
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{"title":"The Last House at Bridge River: The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Household in British Columbia during the Fur Trade Period. Anna Marie Prentiss, editor. 2017. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. xiv + 267 pp. $59.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-6078-1543-3. $47.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-6078-1544-0.","authors":"Elizabeth A. Sobel","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.65","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136361217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Far Western Basketmaker Beginnings: The Jackson Flat Project. Heidi Roberts, Richard V. N. Ahlstrom, and Jerry D. Spangler, editors. 2022. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. xvi + 336 pp. 106 illust. $80.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-64769-064-9. $64.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-64769-065-6.","authors":"Richard H. Wilshusen","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.59","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134997273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This book is part of the Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology series edited by Jelmer Eerkens. It is a product of the “ Workshop on the Analysis of Micro Particles in Archaeological Samples, ” held in December 2016 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Under the expert guidance of Amanda G. Henry, a gathering of distinguished scholars in the field shared their expertise on microscopic archaeological remains. The result is a collection of chapters that provide guidelines for identifying and describing various microscopic particles commonly encountered in archaeological sediments and objects. Each chapter focuses on a specific micro-particle type: marine microfossils, diatoms, nonpollen palynomorphs, starch grains, wood ash crystals, dung spherulites, natural fibers, parasite micro-remains, pollen, and phytoliths. The chapters are organized into three broad topics according to the kind of information they provide: paleoenvironmental, behavioral, or both. The formation of these micro-particles, their paleoenvironmental or behavioral significance, associated techniques, and limitations are discussed. The contributing authors — Henry, Jeremy R. Young, Jeffrey R. Stone, Chad L. Yost, Lyudmila S. Shumilovskikh, Bas van Geel, Shira Gur-Arieh, Ruth Shahack-Gross, Walter F. Rowe, Morgana
{"title":"Handbook for the Analysis of Micro-Particles in Archaeological Samples. Amanda G. Henry, editor. 2020. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. xi + 304 pp. $109.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-030-42621-7. $64.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-3-030-42624-8. $49.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-030-42622-4.","authors":"C. Mallol","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.46","url":null,"abstract":"This book is part of the Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology series edited by Jelmer Eerkens. It is a product of the “ Workshop on the Analysis of Micro Particles in Archaeological Samples, ” held in December 2016 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Under the expert guidance of Amanda G. Henry, a gathering of distinguished scholars in the field shared their expertise on microscopic archaeological remains. The result is a collection of chapters that provide guidelines for identifying and describing various microscopic particles commonly encountered in archaeological sediments and objects. Each chapter focuses on a specific micro-particle type: marine microfossils, diatoms, nonpollen palynomorphs, starch grains, wood ash crystals, dung spherulites, natural fibers, parasite micro-remains, pollen, and phytoliths. The chapters are organized into three broad topics according to the kind of information they provide: paleoenvironmental, behavioral, or both. The formation of these micro-particles, their paleoenvironmental or behavioral significance, associated techniques, and limitations are discussed. The contributing authors — Henry, Jeremy R. Young, Jeffrey R. Stone, Chad L. Yost, Lyudmila S. Shumilovskikh, Bas van Geel, Shira Gur-Arieh, Ruth Shahack-Gross, Walter F. Rowe, Morgana","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42167613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Social, political, and economic institutions covary with one another in heterogenous ways across space and time. Social Network Analysis (SNA) offers a set of analytical tools and conceptual frameworks that have allowed for formal comparisons of interactions, affiliations, and relationships in reconstructing historical trajectories of institutional change. Although archaeologists have made full use of a range of metrics that describe the structural variation of social networks, formal approaches to analyzing the covariance of networks, and the institutions that structured networks in the past, remain undertheorized. In most cases, descriptive metrics are compared between networks built from different datasets or networks separated in time. Using quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) correlations to compare matrices of archaeological data, I draw on a ceramic dataset of approximately 350,000 sherds from the Southern Appalachian region to investigate how decisions related to manufacture choice and to stylistic design covaried with one another between roughly AD 800 and 1650. I explore how material attributes may or may not vary independently of one another and what that means for our analyses of the institutions they reflect. The results contribute to broader comparative analyses of institutional change and perennial discussions of social evolution.
{"title":"The Heterogeneity of Social Network and Institutional Covariance in the American Southeast","authors":"Jacob Holland-Lulewicz","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.52","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Social, political, and economic institutions covary with one another in heterogenous ways across space and time. Social Network Analysis (SNA) offers a set of analytical tools and conceptual frameworks that have allowed for formal comparisons of interactions, affiliations, and relationships in reconstructing historical trajectories of institutional change. Although archaeologists have made full use of a range of metrics that describe the structural variation of social networks, formal approaches to analyzing the covariance of networks, and the institutions that structured networks in the past, remain undertheorized. In most cases, descriptive metrics are compared between networks built from different datasets or networks separated in time. Using quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) correlations to compare matrices of archaeological data, I draw on a ceramic dataset of approximately 350,000 sherds from the Southern Appalachian region to investigate how decisions related to manufacture choice and to stylistic design covaried with one another between roughly AD 800 and 1650. I explore how material attributes may or may not vary independently of one another and what that means for our analyses of the institutions they reflect. The results contribute to broader comparative analyses of institutional change and perennial discussions of social evolution.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48074947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A long-term project to map and catalog all precontact Native American burial mounds in Iowa provides information about the number, location, form, survivorship, and rate of loss of mounds. This analysis reveals previously undocumented mound manifestations, including a large cluster of 200 linear mounds along the central Des Moines River valley. Historical records reveal that at least 7,762 mounds were identified at 1,551 sites in Iowa between 1840 and the present. About 47% of the mounds from these sites can be possibly seen in lidar, with 33% of the total clearly seen in lidar. Data show that mound loss over time is linear. Extrapolation of data suggests that at least 15,000–17,000 mounds stood in Iowa in the nineteenth century, but the actual number was likely higher.
{"title":"An Inventory of Precontact Burial Mounds of Iowa","authors":"William E. Whittaker","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.49","url":null,"abstract":"A long-term project to map and catalog all precontact Native American burial mounds in Iowa provides information about the number, location, form, survivorship, and rate of loss of mounds. This analysis reveals previously undocumented mound manifestations, including a large cluster of 200 linear mounds along the central Des Moines River valley. Historical records reveal that at least 7,762 mounds were identified at 1,551 sites in Iowa between 1840 and the present. About 47% of the mounds from these sites can be possibly seen in lidar, with 33% of the total clearly seen in lidar. Data show that mound loss over time is linear. Extrapolation of data suggests that at least 15,000–17,000 mounds stood in Iowa in the nineteenth century, but the actual number was likely higher.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41914925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Osteobiographies: The Discovery, Interpretation, and Repatriation of Human Remains. Susan Pfeiffer. 2022. Academic Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. xiii + 213 pp. 130.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-128-23881-3. - Volume 88 Issue 4
{"title":"Osteobiographies: The Discovery, Interpretation, and Repatriation of Human Remains. Susan Pfeiffer. 2022. Academic Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. xiii + 213 pp. $130.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-12823-880-6. $130.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-128-23881-3.","authors":"Lauren Hosek","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.57","url":null,"abstract":"Osteobiographies: The Discovery, Interpretation, and Repatriation of Human Remains. Susan Pfeiffer. 2022. Academic Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. xiii + 213 pp. 130.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-128-23881-3. - Volume 88 Issue 4","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135099012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This book is an exuberant account of one remarkable artifact. The 6-inch-tall carved wooden panther that is the star of the tale has attracted the kind of attention that builds on itself and makes the object ever more captivating. The Nine Lives of Florida ’ s Famous Key Marco Cat explores how this Native American sculpture has become a “ truly transcendent ” object in North American archaeology.
{"title":"The Nine Lives of Florida's Famous Key Marco Cat. Austin J. Bell. 2021. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. xi + 241 pp. $26.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8130-6699-8.","authors":"Christina Perry Sampson","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.61","url":null,"abstract":"This book is an exuberant account of one remarkable artifact. The 6-inch-tall carved wooden panther that is the star of the tale has attracted the kind of attention that builds on itself and makes the object ever more captivating. The Nine Lives of Florida ’ s Famous Key Marco Cat explores how this Native American sculpture has become a “ truly transcendent ” object in North American archaeology.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44081327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age. Tamar Hodos. 2020. Cambridge University Press, New York. xii + 318 pp. $110.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-521-19957-5. $36.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-521-14806-1. $30.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-108-90770-5.","authors":"Paul D. Scotton","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.42","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45599682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
During the Early Agricultural period (2100 BC–AD 50), preceramic farmers in the Sonoran Desert invested considerable labor in canal-irrigated field systems while remaining very residentially mobile. The degree to which they exercised formal systems of land tenure, or organized their communities above the household level, remains contested. This article discusses the spatial and social organization of Early Cienega–phase settlements in the Los Pozos site group, an Early Agricultural site complex located along the Santa Cruz River in southern Arizona. At Los Pozos, the formal spatial organization of seasonal farmsteads suggests that despite continued residential mobility, multihousehold lineages maintained distinct territories. Enduring “house groups”—likely lineal groups—are associated with disproportionately large cemeteries, suggesting the revisitation of ancestral territory through occupational hiatuses. However, variability in the formality and permanence of Early Cienega–phase settlements throughout the region indicates a flexible continuum of occupational mobility. These higher-order affiliations were only expressed in persistent settlements near highly productive farmland, where the relative priority of households over improved land might be contested.
{"title":"Mobility, Lineage, and Land Tenure: Interpreting House Groups at Early Agricultural Settlements in the Tucson Basin, Southern Arizona","authors":"Erina P. Gruner","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.39","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 During the Early Agricultural period (2100 BC–AD 50), preceramic farmers in the Sonoran Desert invested considerable labor in canal-irrigated field systems while remaining very residentially mobile. The degree to which they exercised formal systems of land tenure, or organized their communities above the household level, remains contested. This article discusses the spatial and social organization of Early Cienega–phase settlements in the Los Pozos site group, an Early Agricultural site complex located along the Santa Cruz River in southern Arizona. At Los Pozos, the formal spatial organization of seasonal farmsteads suggests that despite continued residential mobility, multihousehold lineages maintained distinct territories. Enduring “house groups”—likely lineal groups—are associated with disproportionately large cemeteries, suggesting the revisitation of ancestral territory through occupational hiatuses. However, variability in the formality and permanence of Early Cienega–phase settlements throughout the region indicates a flexible continuum of occupational mobility. These higher-order affiliations were only expressed in persistent settlements near highly productive farmland, where the relative priority of households over improved land might be contested.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42462615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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