Composing Complexity in the Eastern Woodlands

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-52
Author(s):  
Alice P. Wright ◽  
Cameron Gokee
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Woodlands

scholarly journals Broken Worlds: Towards an Archaeology of the Shatter Zone

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Raffield
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Physical Geography ◽  
Trigger Factors ◽  
Eastern Woodlands ◽  
Term Change ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Historic Change

AbstractIn recent years, archaeological studies of long-term change and transformation in the human past have often been dominated by the discussion of dichotomous processes of ‘collapse’ and ‘resilience’. These discussions are frequently framed in relatively narrow terms dictated by specialist interests that place an emphasis on the role of single ‘trigger’ factors as motors for historic change. In order to address this issue, in this article I propose that the study of the ‘shatter zone’—a term with origins in physical geography and geopolitics that has been more recently harnessed in anthropological research—has the potential to facilitate multi-scalar, interdisciplinary analyses of the ways in which major historical changes unfold across both space and time, at local, regional, and inter-regional levels. This article unpacks the concept of the shatter zone and aligns this with existing archaeological frameworks for the study of long-term adaptive change. I then situate these arguments within the context of recent studies of colonial interaction and conflict in the Eastern Woodlands of North America during the sixteenth to eighteenth century. The study demonstrates how a more regulated approach to the shatter zone has the potential to yield new insights on the ways in which populations mitigate and react to instability and change while also facilitating comparative studies of these processes on a broader, global scale.

Eastern Woodlands of North America

Antiquity ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 77 (298) ◽  
pp. 847-853
Author(s):  
Dean R. Snow
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Eastern Woodlands

Moundbuilders of the Eastern Woodlands

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-118
Author(s):  
Dean R. Snow ◽  
Nancy Gonlin ◽  
Peter E. Siegel
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Woodlands
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