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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967027903321

Titolo

Histories of southeastern archaeology / / edited by Shannon Tushingham, Jane Hill, and Charles H. McNutt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8173-1364-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TushinghamShannon

HillJane <1964->

McNuttCharles H

Disciplina

975/.01

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Southern States - Antiquities

Archaeologists - Southern States

Archaeologists - Southern States - History

Excavations (Archaeology) - Southern States - History

Southern States Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-349) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Excerpts from "bringing the past alive": interviews with William Haag and George Quimby / William Haag, George Quimby, and Ann F. Ramenofsky -- Museum paradigms and the history of southeastern archaeology / David S. Brose -- Forty years of the southeastern ceremonial complex / James A. Brown -- Historical archaeology in the southeast, 1930-2000 / Stanley South and Kathleen Deagan -- Paleogeography and geomorphology in the lower Mississippi Valley / Roger T. Saucier -- Part II. States. Some ruminations on the archaeology of southeast Missouri / Stephen Williams -- Pot hunters, salvage, and science in Arkansas, 1900-2000 / Hester A. Davis -- Louisiana archaeology: a selective history / Robert W. Neuman -- Rediscovering Illinois : the development of archaeology in Illinois / Jon Muller -- The history of archaeology in West Virginia / Bettye J. Broyles -- Virginia's archaeology: a look back and a look ahead / Howard A. Maccord Sr. -- North Carolina archaeology in historical perspective / Bennie C. Keel -- A history of archaeological research in South Carolina / David G. Anderson -- Forty years of Kentucky archaeology or



incidents of recent archaeological history in a border state: a review / R. Berle Clay -- A history of Tennessee archaeology / Charles H. Faulkner -- One hundred years of archaeology in Mississippi / Jay K. Johnson -- Alabama archaeology in the twentieth century / John A. Walthall, Vernon J. Knight, and Gregory Waselkov -- A personal perspective on Georgia archaeology at the end of the twentieth century / Lewis Larson -- Florida archaeology: a recent history / Jerald T. Milanich -- Part III: Commentary -- Histories by the archaeologist, for the archaeologist / Kenneth E. Sassaman.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume provides a comprehensive, broad-based overview, including first-person accounts, of the development and conduct of archaeology in the Southeast over the past three decades.  Histories of Southeastern Archaeology originated as a symposium at the 1999 Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) organized in honor of the retirement of Charles H. McNutt following 30 years of teaching anthropology. Written for the most part by members of the first post-depression generation of southeastern archaeologists, this volume offers a window not only into the a