This volume offers a rich and informative introduction to North American archaeology for all those interested in the history and culture of North American natives.
- Organized around central topics and debates within the discipline.
- Illustrated with case studies based on the lives of real people, to emphasize human agency, cultural practice, the body, issues of inequality, and the politics of archaeological practice.
- Highlights current understandings of cultural and historical processes in North America and situates these understandings within a global perspective.
Series Editors' Preface.
Preface.
List of Figures.
Notes on Contributors.
1. Alternative Histories and North American Archaeology (Timothy R. Pauketat and Diana DiPaolo Loren).
2. The Peopling of North America (J.M. Adovasio and David Pedler).
3. Tempo and Scale in the Evolution of Social Complexity in Western North America: Four Case Studies (Kenneth M. Ames).
4. Structure and Practice in the Archaic Southeast (Kenneth E. Sassaman).
5. The Enigmatic Hopewell of the Eastern Woodlands (William S. Dancey).
6. Farming and Social Complexity in the Northeast (Elizabeth Chilton).
7. The Evolution of the Plains Village Tradition (Dale R. Henning).
8. The Forgotten History of the Mississippians (Timothy R. Pauketat).
9. Beyond the Mold: Questions of Inequality of Southwest Villages (Michelle Hegmon).
10. Chaco and Paquime: Complexity, History, Landscape (Stephen H. Lekson).
11. Social and Physical Landscapes of Contact (Stephen W. Sulliman).
12. Creolization in thel“t
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