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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969422603321

Titolo

The development of southeastern archaeology / / editor, Jay K. Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : , : University of Alabama Press, , 1993

©1993

ISBN

0-8173-8374-3

0-585-14091-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 343 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnsonJay K

Disciplina

975/.01

Soggetti

Archaeology - Southern States

Indians of North America - Southern States - Antiquities

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Changing Paradigms in the Explanation of Southeastern Prehistory; Ceramics; Lithics; Physical Anthropology; Ethnohistory; Zooarchaeology; Paleoethnobotany; Archaeometry; Multispectral Digital Imagery; Conclusion; References Cited; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ten scholars whose specialties range from ethnohistory to remote sensing and lithic analysis to bioarchaeology chronicle changes in the way prehistory in the Southeast has been studied since the 19th century.  Each brings to the task the particular perspective of his or her own subdiscipline in this multifaceted overview of the history of archaeology in a region that has had an important but variable role in the overall development of North American archaeology.    Some of the specialties discussed in this book were traditionally relegated to appendixes or ignored completely.