The Early and Middle Woodland periods (1000 BCE--500 CE) in North America witnessed remarkable cross-cultural social interactions as well as novel interactions between people and the physical world. Using case studies from Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, and Tennessee, this volume sheds new light on these dynamic and complex social landscapes.
Fourteen in-depth case studies incorporate empirical data with theoretical concepts such as ritual, aggregation, and place-making, highlighting the variability and common themes in the relationships between people, landscapes, and the built environment that characterize this period of North American native life in the Southeast.
A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
Content
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1. Introduction: Emerging Approaches to the Landscapes of the Early and Middle Woodland Southeast 1
Alice P. Wright and Edward R. Henry
Part 1. Extensive Landscapes: Between and Beyond Monuments
2. The Early–Middle Woodland Domestic Landscape in Kentucky 19
Darlene Applegate
3. The Adena Mortuary Landscape: Off-Mound Rituals and Burial Mounds 45
David Pollack and Eric J. Schlarb
4. Like a Dead Dog: Strategic Ritual Choice in the Mortuary Enterprise 56
R. Berle Clay
5. The Early and Middle Woodland of the Upper Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee 71
Jay D. Franklin, Meagan Dennison, Maureen A. Hays, Jeffrey Navel, and Andrew D. Dye
Part 2. Monumental Landscapes: Mound and Earthwork Sites
6. Winchester Farm: A Small Adena Enclosure in Central Kentucky 91
Richard W. Jefferies, George R. Milner, and Edward R. Henry
7. Persistent Place, Shifting Practice: The Premound Landscape at the Garden Creek Site, North Carolina 108
Alice P. Wright
8. Biltmore Mound and the Appalachian Summit Hopewell 122
Larry R. Kimball, Thomas R. Whyte, and Gary D. Crites
9. The Woodland Period Cultural Landscape of the Leake Site Complex 138
Scot Keith
10. The Creation of Ritual Space at the Jackson Landing Site in Coastal Mississippi 153
Edmond A. Boudreaux III
Part 3. Landscapes of Interaction
11. Late Middle Woodland Settlement and Ritual at the Armory Site 167
Paul N. Eubanks
12. Constituting Similarity and Difference in the Deep South: The Ritual and Domestic Landscapes of Kolomoki, Crystal River, and Fort Center 181
Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Victor D. Thompson
13. Ritual Life and Landscape at Tunacunnhee 196
Victoria G. Dekle
14. Swift Creek and Weeden Island Mortuary Landscapes of Interaction 204
Neill J. Wallis
15. Working Out Adena Political Organization and Variation from the Ritual Landscape in the Kentucky Bluegrass 219
Edward R. Henry
Part 4. Woodland Landscapes in Historical and Regional Perspective
16. On Ceremonial Landscapes 237
James A. Brown
17. Social Landscapes of Early and Middle Woodland Peoples in the Southeast 247
David G. Anderson
References 263
Wright and Henry
List of Contributors 311
Index 315
