... Minimum frontal breadth 94 mm Zm=–1.03 Zf=–0.20 Figure 1.4. Suture closure and mandibular trauma in a Late Woodland child. Figure 1.3. Suture closure in a Late Woodland boy. Figure 1.1. Dental age versus long bone length. Figure 1.2. Suture closure, fractures, and unusual cranial...

... and Woodland sites in the Midsouth where occupants also invested in plant food production. chenopods Chenopodium berlandieri hickory nuts Carya spp oaks Quercus spp sedentism squash Cucurbita spp sumpweed Iva annua sunflowers Helianthus annuus Tuckaleechee Cove Tennessee barley little Hordeum pusillum...

...A defining characteristic of the Middle Woodland period is the prevalence of craft goods of stone, bone, shell, and metal, which originated frequently from exotic sources and were often fashioned into non-utilitarian, symbolically-charged products. In the processual heyday, archaeologists devoted...

...This paper examines how each of the contributors to the volume explores the Woodland social landscape of the Southeast. The discussion examines the many different theoretical and methodological perspectives, as well as the many different kinds of archaeological evidence, that the individual chapter...

...Dynamic Woodland and Mississippian societies flourished across west-peninsular Florida, an integral part of the Southeast. Native people constructed spaces for social, political, and economic agendas, including monumental burial mounds, elevated living surfaces, ramps, walkways, causeways...

...From AD 800 to 1300, Piedmont Village Tradition (PVT) settlements were characterized by small numbers of loosely arranged households. In the Late Woodland period (after AD 1300) in the Dan, Eno, and Haw River valleys, these households coalesced into villages with planned layouts and cooperatively...

...The author summarizes trends in Early, Middle, and Late Woodland material culture, settlement patterns, subsistence, and mortuary practices. Throughout the Woodland period, the Falls region frontier appears to have been a border area with material culture similarities suggestive of greater...

...This chapter describes previous and recent archaeological investigations at the Audrey-North site (11Ge20) in the Lower Illinois River Valley. The Center for American Archaeology excavated from 1975 to 1983, exposing both Late Woodland and Cahokia-style structures, a circular sweatlodge, pit...

... across much of the Eastern Woodland. He emphasizes the north-south linearity and almost “too neat” low floodplain to higher upland/prairie sequential development of the topography that characterizes the lower Illinois Valley. Pacheco's contribution is an important addition to the question of how we can...

... Woodlands Embankments Facilities Mortuary artifacts Proprietorial domain Settlement patterns Communities Kinship based community Labor catchments Mobility Resource s acquisition of Clans Companionship Dual Clan Cult Sodality model Heterarchy Kinship Mutual autonomy Relative autonomy Social...

...The Sacred Maize model as applied to the American Bottom postulates that a series of related ideological innovations was successfully implemented and marked the Terminal Late Woodland period and that, largely unwittingly, this implementation instigated a population expansion and further innovation...

... of the deontic ecological posture from a strongly proscriptive-settlement toward a less proscriptive-settlement orientation correlated with an intensifying prescriptive subsistence ceremonial orientation. keyhole structures maize Sacred Maize model Sponemann site Jackson Douglas Koldehoff Brad Woodland...

...This chapter determines the patterns that require the evaluation of the Terminal Late Woodland settlement data following the Sponemann phase by exploring the Range site. It specifically outlines the current interpretations of that site's community plans, critiques them, and then provides...

...In Florida and adjacent areas of the American Southeast, monument construction, aggregated settlement patterns, and especially elaborate mortuary practices of the tradition known as “Weeden Island” have long been seen as indications of emergent social complexity during the Late Woodland (ca. 600...

...Two decades ago Mississippian cultural origins were commonly viewed as the outcome of well-bounded Woodland populations evolving in situ. Different Mississippian polities were conceived of as organizationally comparable as they had evolved in similar environmental and cultural contexts. Today...

.... A few mounds are now known from Early Woodland times. New data from Pierce and Chattahoochee Landing mound complexes, at each end of the valley, show re-use of Woodland ritual space by later Fort Walton groups. Middle Woodland ritual and domestic sites have typical exotics and both Swift Creek and early...

...In the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee River valley, new data reaffirm a relatively seamless Fort Walton emergence from resident late Weeden Island groups circa A.D.900-1000 that was characterized by blending external Mississippian influences with local traditions. Check-stamped and other Woodland...

...The “historical turn” in the archaeology of the Woodland period Gulf Coast of the Southeastern United States began several decades ago, as archaeologists began to move beyond relatively static regional cultural histories to develop detailed chronologies of several of the region’s most prominent...

... regions. Mississippianization was a historical process whereby Woodland peoples had the agency to resist or participate in Cahokian practices and did so with reference to their own identities and traditions. Within this framework, the chapter lays out the following research questions: 1) did the Lower...

...Authors Renee B. Walker and R. Jeannine Windham focus on dog burial in chapter 5, “The Dogs of Spirit Hill: An Analysis of Domestic Dog Burials from Jackson County, Alabama.” The Spirit Hill site is located in northeastern Alabama and dates from the late Middle Woodland through the Mississippian...