North American Archaeology

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.

Timothy R. Pauketat is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois. He has conducted research in the America Bottom, particularly Cahokia, and pioneered research in archaeology of traditions, agency, and political economy. His recent books include Ancient Cahokia and the Mississippians (2004) and The Archaeology of Traditions (2001).

Diana DiPaolo Loren is an Associate Curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Her research on French and Spanish colonial sites contributes to the study of issues of creolization, race, identity, and the body.

Series Editors' Preface

vii

Preface

viii

List of Figures

xi

Notes on Contributors

xv

1 Alternative Histories and North American Archaeology

1

(29)

Timothy R. Pauketat and Diana DiPaolo Loren

2 The Peopling of North America

30

(26)

J.M. Adovasio and David Pedler

3 Tempo and Scale in the Evolution of Social Complexity in Western North America: Four Case Studies

56

(23)

Kenneth M. Ames

4 Structure and Practice in the Archaic Southeast

79

(29)

Kenneth E. Sassaman

5 The Enigmatic Hopewell of the Eastern Woodlands

108

(30)

William S. Dancey

6 Farming and Social Complexity in the Northeast

138

(23)

Elizabeth Chilton

7 The Evolution of the Plains Village Tradition

161

(26)

Dale R. Henning

8 The Forgotten History of the Mississippians

187

(25)

Timothy R. Pauketat

9 Beyond the Mold: Questions of Inequality in Southwest Villages

212

(23)

Michelle Hegmon

10 Chaco and Paquimé: Complexity, History, Landscape

235

(38)

Stephen H. Lekson

11 Social and Physical Landscapes of Contact

273

(24)

Stephen W. Silliman

12 Creolization in the French and Spanish Colonies

297

(22)

Diana DiPaolo Loren

13 Before the Revolution: Archaeology and the African Diaspora on the Atlantic Seaboard

319

(18)

Theresa A. Singleton

14 Representing and Repatriating the Past

337

(22)

Joe Watkins

15 Labor and Class in the American West

359

(27)

Dean Y. Saitta

Glossary

386

(8)

Index

394

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North American Archaeology

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