Exploring Southeastern Archaeology. PATRICIA GALLOWAY and EVAN PEACOCK, editors. 2015. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson. xiii + 320 pp. $70.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-62846-240-1.

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 184-185
Author(s):  
Mark A. Rees
Keyword(s):  
Southeastern Archaeology

The Everyday Archaeologist Matters

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Price ◽  
Philip J. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Southeastern Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Future

Archaeology has many goals, and those goals may differ depending on your theoretical paradigm. These aims vary from bringing order to an incomplete and imperfect record of people in the past, to distilling the actions of the past in order to understand not only cultural changes but also the reasons those change occurred, to synthesizing this information to predict human behavior through laws, and to using the past to better the future of humanity. Thinking about the everyday broadens perspectives, posits new questions, presents testable hypotheses, and, perhaps because it is measured on a shared scale, brings some level of consilience to southeastern archaeology. In this chapter, the authors discuss three opportunities for making archaeology relevant: writing palatably, scaling interactions, and engaging people with their past by bringing archaeology into their everyday lives.

The Archaeological Situation at Spiro, Oklahoma; A Preliminary Report

1946 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 228-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Gordon Orr
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Southeastern Archaeology ◽  
University Of Oklahoma ◽  
The University ◽  
Work Projects Administration

Since its discovery and exploitation by commercial diggers in 1933, the unusually rich ceremonial complex of the Spiro Mounds, Leflore County, Oklahoma, has engaged the interest of archaeologists. The importance of the Spiro site to Southeastern archaeology has been recognized, and the science has awaited report of the scientific excavation undertaken by the Work Projects Administration and the University of Oklahoma for a number of years. No comprehensive report on this important area has been published to date.

Gendered Citation Practices in American Antiquity and Other Archaeology Journals

2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott R. Hutson
Keyword(s):  
Historical Data ◽  
American Antiquity ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Equity Issues ◽  
Southeastern Archaeology ◽  
Citation Practices

Citation is one of many practices affected by the sociopolitics of archaeology. Examination of citation practices in American Antiquity, the Journal of Field Archaeology, Ancient Mesoamerica, and Southeastern Archaeology yields mixed results with regard to equity issues for women. In American Antiquity, the Journal of Field Archaeology, and Ancient Mesoamerica, men cite women at rates that are statistically similar to the rates at which women cite women. Historical data show that this has not always been the case for American Antiquity. In Southeastern Archaeology, men cite women significantly less than women cite women. Despite statistical parity between the sexes in three of the four journals, both men and women in American Antiquity and Ancient Mesoamerica cite women less than expected given the rate at which women publish. Such under-referencing of women might imply a devaluation of women's archaeological labor. This paper also examines other factors besides the gender of the citing author that might affect the rate of citation to women.

Why the Archaeology of Everyday Matters?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Price ◽  
Philip J. Carr
Keyword(s):  
Daily Basis ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Southeastern Archaeology ◽  
The People ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Archaeological Perspective

This chapter functions as an introduction to the volume; it highlights previous, related work and argues why using the “everyday” as a guiding theme is useful. The idea of “everyday matters” has two meanings: either it can refer to daily concerns or events that are common and ordinary or it can demonstrate that actions which occur daily or “every day” are of significance, that such actions matter. Because, from an archaeological perspective, common concerns reveal something about the lives of the people we investigate, we propose that the archaeological record is formed on a daily basis. Thus, while fostering a degree of holism in archaeology, an everyday framework allows specialists to remain specialized. Used in a myriad of ways, this framework broadens perspectives; posits new questions; presents testable hypotheses; and, perhaps because it operates on a shared scale, brings some level of consilience to southeastern archaeology.

Continuing the Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
Kenneth E. Sassaman ◽  
Timothy R. Pauketat
Keyword(s):  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Historical Ontology ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Southeastern Archaeology ◽  
Historical Turn

Two prominent archaeologists utilizing history in their archaeology offer thoughts on the essays and on the historical turn in Southeastern archaeology considering especially the themes of historical process, historical consciousness, and historical ontology

The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Robbie Ethridge ◽  
Robin Beck ◽  
Eric E. Bowne
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Southeastern Archaeology ◽  
Historical Turn ◽  
Introductory Essay ◽  
Making Choices ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée

Southeastern archaeologists increasingly use an historical approach to ask fresh questions and open up new ways of understanding the deep past of the Native South. Archaeologists now see that processes were certainly at play shaping the ancient past, but that it was also a product of long- and short-term events, people making choices, migration, coalescence, ethnogenesis, ideology, place making, memory constructs, contingency, and structures of the longue durée, among other things. In this introductory essay, the authors examine the historical turn in archaeology; explore how re-conceiving of the ancient past not as “prehistory” but “history” fundamentally reshapes our understanding of pre-colonial indigenous people; and iterate some of the fundamentals underlying this historical turn.

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