The Eastern Archaic, Historicized
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- 2010
Summary
The Eastern Archaic, Historicized offers an alternative perspective on the genesis and transformation of cultural diversity over eight millennia of hunter-gatherer dwelling in eastern North America. For many decades, archaeological understanding of Archaic diversity has been dominated by perspectives that emphasize localized relationships between humans and environment. The evidence, shows, however that Archaic people routinely associated with other groups throughout eastern North America and expressed themselves materially in ways that reveal historical links to other places and times. Starting with the colonization of eastern North America by two distinct ancestral lines, the Eastern Archaic was an era of migrations, ethnogenesis, and coalescence—an 8,200-year era of making histories through interactions and expressing them culturally in ritual and performance.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2010
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-7591-0679-6
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-7591-1990-1
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 276
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Figures No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access
- Chapter 1. Prehistory Reloaded No access Pages 1 - 28
- Chapter 2. A Continental Vista No access Pages 29 - 50
- Chapter 3. Landscapes of Historical Practice No access Pages 51 - 96
- Chapter 4. Craftworks of Structure No access Pages 97 - 142
- Chapter 5. Cultures of Daily Practice No access Pages 143 - 182
- Chapter 6. Structure Transformed No access Pages 183 - 214
- References Cited No access Pages 215 - 262
- Index No access Pages 263 - 274
- About the Author No access Pages 275 - 276





