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Structure and Process in Southeastern title: Archaeology author: Dickens, Roy S. publisher: University of Alabama Press isbn10 | asin: 0817302166 print isbn13: 9780817302160 ebook isbn13: 9780585329253 language: English Indians of North America--Southern States- -Antiquities, Excavations (Archaeology)-- subject Southern States, Southern States-- Antiquities. publication date: 1985 lcc: E78.S65S77 1985eb ddc: 975/.01 Indians of North America--Southern States- -Antiquities, Excavations (Archaeology)-- subject: Southern States, Southern States-- Antiquities. Page i Structure and Process in Southeastern Archaeology Page ii Joffre Lanning Coe Page iii Structure and Process in Southeastern Archaeology Edited by Roy S. Dickens, Jr. and H. Trawick Ward A DAN JOSSELYN MEMORIAL PUBLICATION WITH AN EPILOGUE BY James B. Griffin Page iv Copyright © 1985 by The University of Alabama Press University, Alabama 35486 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Structure and process in southeastern archaeology. Includes index. 1. Indians of North AmericaSouthern States AntiquitiesAddresses, essays, lectures. 2. Excavations (Archaeology)Southern StatesAddresses, essays, lec- tures. 3. Southern StatesAntiquitiesAddresses, essays, lectures. I. Dickens, Roy S., 1938- . II. Ward, H. Trawick, 1944- . E78.S65S77 1985 975'.01 84-23 ISBN 0-8173-0216-6 Page v To Joffre Lanning Coe Page vii CONTENTS List of Figures ix List of Tables xiii Preface xv Acknowledgments xvi Introduction 1 Roy S. Dickens, Jr. and H. Trawick Ward Section I: Intrasite Structure and Formation Processes 9 1. Formation Processes for the Practical Prehistorian: An 11 Example from the Southeast J. Jefferson Reid 2. The Form, Function, and Formation of Garbage-filled 34 Pits on Southeastern Aboriginal Sites: An Archaeobotanical Analysis Roy S. Dickens, Jr. 3. Feature Zones and Feature Fill: More Than Trash 60 Jack H. Wilson, Jr. 4. Social Implications of Storage and Disposal Patterns 82 H. Trawick Ward 5. The Form and Function of South Carolina's Early 102 Woodland Shell Rings Michael B. Trinkley 6. A New Way of Looking at Old Holes: Methods for 119 Excavating and Interpreting Timber Structures Alexander H. Morrison II Section II: Intersite Comparisons and Regional 135 Chronology 7. Archaeology and the Archaic Period in the Southern 137 Ridge-and-Valley Province Jefferson Chapman Page viii 8. Intersite Assemblage Variability in the Lower Little 154 Tennessee River Valley: Exploring Extinct Settlement Systems Through Probabilistic Sampling R.P. stephen davis, Jr. 9. Lithic Scatters in the South Carolina Piedmont 180 Veletta Canouts and Albert C. Goodyear III 10. Tradition and Typology: Basic Elements of the 195 Carolina Projectile Point Sequence Billy L. Oliver 11. Model and Sequence in the Maryland Archaic 212 Kit W. Wesler 12. Spheres of Cultural Interaction across the Coastal 229 Plain of Virginia in the Woodland Period Keith T. Egloff 13. Early Hopewellian Ceremonial Encampments in the 243 South Appalachian Highlands John A. Walthall 14. Deep Water and High Ground: Seventeenth-Century 263 Settlement Patterns on the Carolina Coast Stanley South and Michael O. Hartley Epilogue: Joffre Lanning Coe: The Quiet Giant of 287 Southeastern Archaeology James B. Griffin Bibliography 305 Contributors 335 Index 337

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A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication  Within the general structure-and-process theme of this compendium, the authors have focused on either intrasite problems (those dealing with the formation and structure of a site, type of site, or type of feature) or intersite problems (those dealing with behavi
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