Southeastern Archaeology (Archaeology in North America)

Review of "From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation" by Robbie Ethridge

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Published in "Journal of Interdisciplinary History", Volume 43, Number 1, Summer 2012, pp. 115-116

Decoration and Vessel Form in Parkin Phase Ceramics

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

A Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, April 21, 2012.

A Bead Assemblage from the Smith Mound (8LL36) at the Pineland Site Complex in Lee County

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

A Paper presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, Tallahassee, May 12, 2012.

Rethinking the Archaeology of Rebels, Backsliders, and Idolaters. In Enduring Conquests: Rethinking the Archaeology of Resistance to Spanish Colonialism in the Americas, edited by M. Liebmann and M. S. Murphy. SAR Press, Santa Fe.

by Matthew Liebmann

Co-authored with Melissa S. Murphy. Introduction to the volume "Enduring Conquests"

Embedded: 4,000 Years of Shell Symbolism in the southeast

by Tanya Peres

Co-authored with Aaron Deter-Wolf. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Apirl 20, 2012, Memphis, Tennessee.

Review of 'Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South'.

by Anthony Krus

published in 'American Antiquity', 2010

Bridging History and Prehistory: The Possible Antiquity of a Native American Ballgame

by Anthony Krus

published in 'Native South', 2011

Reburial of the Tatham Mound Human Remains: An Odyssey.

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Published in "Florida Archaeology Council Newsletter" 73:16-34, December 2008. Figures are not included in the version reproduced here.

Mesoamérica, el noroeste de México y el suroeste de Estados Unidos

by Randall McGuire

McGuire, Randall H.
2011 Mesoamérica, el noroeste de México y el suroeste de Estados Unidos. In Mesoamérica: Debates y Perspectivas.ed. by E. Williams, M. García Sánchez, and M. Gándara, pp.79-94, El Colegio de Michoacán, Zamora.

English version posted on Acadamia.edu as: Mesoamerica, the Northwest of Mexico and the Southwest United States.

Las fantasmas de las áreas culturas aparecen nuestros investigaciones. Por este áreas determinan que preguntas... more Las fantasmas de las áreas culturas aparecen nuestros investigaciones. Por este áreas determinan que preguntas preguntamos, que regiones estudiamos, que revistas leimos, que colegos hablamos, que universidades estudimos y muchos otros aspectos de arquerología en maneras sbtle y complejo. Las áreas culturales como Mesoamérica y el Noroeste/Suroeste tienen un contento de verdad pero este contento no coresponde de las fronteras de este áreas. Este fronteras definir distinciónes falsas y encauzan nuestros investigaciones en maneras improductivas. Tambien, hay otras frontieras que separan dentro de Mesoamérica y el Noroeste/Suroeste. Estes incluen la frontiera internacional, frontieras del estados, y subdivisiones culturales de las áreas culturas. Los problemas de las áreas culturales y del uso de frontieras para definir investigaciones son mas aparamente a las margins de las áreas. El desarrollo de una comunidad de arqueologos trabajaran en el noroeste de México has cambiado nuestros entendiemento de las sim y diferencias dentro de Mesoamérica y el Noroeste/Suroeste. La alternativa de una definición de áreas culturales por frontieras es a ver los como reds dinamicas de relaciones sociales.

Rivers and Rifles: The Role of Fort Heiman in the Western Theater of the Civil War

by Timothy Parsons

Published in the Journal of Kentucky Archaeology

Between 1861 and 1864, a triumvirate of Forts – Henry, Donelson, and Heiman – played a pivotal role in the western... more Between 1861 and 1864, a triumvirate of Forts – Henry, Donelson, and Heiman – played a pivotal role in the western theater of the Civil War. Of the three, Fort Heiman changed hands most often, and despite its relative obscurity was a keystone for the Union and
Confederacy in regulating military transport and commerce on the Tennessee River. In late 2010, archaeologists from the National Park Service Southeast Archeological Center investigated Fort Heiman to distinguish between Confederate and Union landscape features, and to shed light on the role of African American Freedmen living at the fort during its Northern occupation. Ultimately, the landscape surrounding Fort Heiman was found to be highly disturbed by relic collectors. And, although impossible to distinguish between Union and Confederate forces based on the artifact assemblage, the identification of several earthworks and landscape features sheds new light on the occupation of the area during the Civil War.

A Cumberland Preform: Implications for Paleoindian Lithic Technology

by Justin D. McKeel

Co-authored with Anthony T. Boldurian, Ph. D.
North American Archaeologist: Volume 32, Number 2

Use of isolated striking platforms in biface manufacture—one hallmark of Paleoindian technology—appears in Clovis... more Use of isolated striking platforms in biface manufacture—one hallmark of Paleoindian technology—appears in Clovis (11,500-10,900 B.P.) and Folsom (10,900-10,200 B.P.) fluting and in Agate Basin (10,500-10,200 B.P.) preform lateral thinning. We document a new observation: Cumberland or Southeastern Clovis (10,800-10,500 B.P.) artisans used isolated striking platforms for both. We also note that Cumberland points exhibit Folsom-type fluting and Agate Basin stiletto shape (i.e., an elongate blade thick in proportion to narrow width). From these observations, we speculate on technological, cultural, and chronological implications for Clovis, Folsom, Cumberland, and Agate Basin.

Animals in Southeastern Native American Subsistence Economies

by Heather A. Lapham

Lapham, Heather A. (2011). Animals in Southeastern Native American Subsistence Economies. In Subsistence Economies of Indigenous North American Societies, Bruce D. Smith (ed.), pp. 401-429. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, Washington, D.C.

Southeast Animals

by Heather A. Lapham

Lapham, Heather A. (2006). Southeast Animals. In Environment, Origins, and Population, D.H. Ubelaker (ed.), pp. 396-404. Handbook of North American Indians Vol. 3. W.C. Sturtevant, general editor. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

A Baumer Phase Dog Burial from the Kincaid Site in Southern Illinois

by Heather A. Lapham

Lapham, Heather A. (2010). A Baumer Phase Dog Burial from the Kincaid Site in Southern Illinois. Illinois Archaeology 22(2):437-463.

Recent excavations at the Kincaid site in southern Illinois uncovered a small domestic dog (Canis familiaris) buried... more Recent excavations at the Kincaid site in southern Illinois uncovered a small domestic dog (Canis familiaris) buried in a Baumer phase pit from the Early to Middle Woodland transition (ca. 250 B.C. to A.D. 1). This article describes the skeleton and burial in greater detail, explores the prevalence of dog burials in the study region, and compares the size of the dog with other southeastern canines. The study concludes that dog burials are rare finds on archaeological sites in southern Illinois during the Woodland period as well as earlier and later in time. The Kincaid dog is also unique in its small size, which may explain some of the dental abnormalities observed.

Storage and Relative Surplus at the Mississippian Site of Moundville

by Casey Barrier

2011. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 30:206-219.

Changing Ideas About the Parkin Site, Northeast Arkansas

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Paper presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Macon, Georgia, 2000.

Some Thoughts on the Development and Evolution of the Parkin Phase

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Paper presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Biloxi, Mississippi, 2002.

New Information on Nineteenth-Century Archaeologist S. T. Walker

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, Ybor City/Tampa, 2008.

The Vero and Melbourne Discoveries: Scientific Controversy in the Early Twentieth Century

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Paper presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, Stuart, 2006.

The Florida Historical Society's Committee on Archaeology: Forerunner to the FAS

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Paper presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Florida Anthropological Society, Tallahassee, 2003.