The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology

Edited by Timothy Pauketat

Oxford Handbooks

Presents avante-garde archaeological theories alongside time-honored and traditional approaches
Mixes grand overviews with detalied studies by regional experts
Includes over 170 vivid photographs, maps, and detailed illustrations

The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology

Edited by Timothy Pauketat

Description

This volume explores 15,000 years of indigenous human history on the North American continent, drawing on the latest archaeological theories, time-honored methodologies, and rich datasets. From the Arctic south to the Mexican border and east to the Atlantic Ocean, all of the major cultural developments are covered in 53 chapters, with certain periods, places, and historical problems receiving special focus by the volume's authors. Questions like who first peopled the continent, what did it mean to have been a hunter-gatherer in the Great Basin versus the California coast, how significant were cultural exchanges between Native North Americans and Mesoamericans, and why do major historical changes seem to correspond to shifts in religion, politics, demography, and economy are brought into focus. The practice of archaeology itself is discussed as contributors wrestle with modern-day concerns with the implications of doing archaeology and its relevance for understanding ourselves today. In the end, the chapters in this book show us that the principal questions answered about human history through the archaeology of North America are central to any larger understanding of the relationships between people, cultural identities, landscapes, and the living of everyday life.

The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology

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Section 1. Histories, Perspectives, and Definitions
1. Questioning the Past in North America, Timothy R. Pauketat
2. Hunter-Gatherer Theory in North American Archaeology, Kenneth E. Sassaman and Asa R. Randall
3. Bone Lickers, Grave Diggers, and Other Unsavory Characters: Archaeologists, Archaeological Cultures, and the Disconnect from Native Peoples, Joe Watkins
Section 2. Pan-American Connections, Migrations, and Encounters
4. Historical Archaeology and Native Agency across the Spanish Borderlands, David Hurst Thomas
5. Some Commonalities Linking North America And Mesoamerica, Robert L. Hall
6. The North American Oikoumene, Peter N. Peregrine and Stephen H. Lekson
7. People, Plants, And Culinary Traditions, Deborah M. Pearsall
8. Early Paleoindians from Colonization to Folsom, Nicole Waguespack
9. Pleistocene Settlement in the East, David G. Anderson
Section 3. Archaeological Histories and Cultural Processes
I. Arctic and Subarctic
10. Adapting to a Frozen Coastal Environment, Robert W. Park
11. Rethinking Eastern Subarctic History, Donald H. Holly, Jr. and Moira Mccaffrey
12. Archaeology of the North Pacific, Herbert D. G. Maschner
II. The West
13. Foundations for the Far West: Paleoindian Cultures on the Western Fringe of North America, Jon Erlandson and Todd J. Braje
14. Archaeology of the Northwest Coast, Herbert D. G. Maschner
15. The Winter Village Pattern on the Plateau of Northwestern North America, Anna Marie Prentiss
16. Great Basin Foraging Strategies, Christopher Morgan and Robert L. Bettinger
17. The Evolution of Social Organization, Settlement Patterns, and Population Densities in Prehistoric Owens Valley, Jelmer Eerkins
18. Mound Building by California Hunter-Gatherers, Kent G. Lightfoot and Edward M. Luby
19. Diversity, Exchange, and Complexity in the California Bight, Jennifer E. Perry
20. Archaeologies of Colonial Reduction and Cultural Production in Native Northern California, Stephen W. Silliman
III. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Seaboard
21. Overview of the St. Lawrence Archaic through Woodland, Claude Chapdelaine
22. New England Algonquians: Navigating "Backwaters" and Typological Boundaries, Elizabeth S. Chilton
23. What Will Be Has Always Been: The Past and Present of Northern Iroquoians, Ronald F. Williamson
24. Regional Ritual Organization in the Northern Great Lakes, AD 1200-1600, Meghan C. L. Howey
25. Villagers and Farmers of the Middle and Upper Ohio River Valley, 11th to 17th Centuries AD: The Fort Ancient and Monongahela Traditions, Bernard K. Means
26. Native History in the Chesapeake: The Powhatan Chiefdom and Beyond, Martin Gallivan
IV. Plains and Upper Midwest
27. Lifeways through Time in the Upper Mississippi River Valley and Northeastern Plains, Guy Gibbon
28. The Archaeological Imprint of Oral Traditions on the Landscape of Northern Plains Hunter-Gatherers, Gerald A. Oetelaar
29. Situating (Proto)History on the Northwestern Plains and Rocky Mountains, Laura L. Scheiber and Judson Byrd Finley
30. The Origins and Development of Farming Villages in the Northern Great Plains, Mark D. Mitchell
31. Planting the Plains: The Development and Extent of Plains Village Agriculturalists in the Southern and Central Plains, Richard R. Drass
32. Women on the Edge: Looking at Protohistoric Plains-Pueblo Interaction from a Feminist Perspective, Judith A. Habicht-Mauche
33. Cahokia Interaction and Ethnogenesis in the Northern Midcontinent, Thomas E. Emerson
34. The Effigy Mound to Oneota Revolution in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, Robert F. Boszhardt
35. Post-Contact Cultural Dynamics in the Upper Great Lakes Region, Vergil E. Noble
V. Mid-South and Southeast
36. Mound Building Societies of the Midsouth and Southeast, George R. Milner
37. Re-envisioning Eastern Woodlands Archaic Origins, Dale L. McElrath and Thomas E. Emerson
38. Poverty Point, Tristram R. Kidder
39. Origins of the Hopewell Phenomenon, Douglas K. Charles
40. Monumental Landscape and Community in the Southern Lower Mississippi Valley during the Late Woodland and Mississippi Periods, Mark A. Rees
41. Making Mississippian at Cahokia, Susan M. Alt
42. Mississippian in the Deep South: Common Themes in Varied Histories, Adam King
43. Living With War: The Impact Of Chronic Violence In The Mississippian Period Central Illinois Valley, Gregory D. Wilson
44. Moundville in the Mississippian World, John H. Blitz

Section 4. Greater Southwest and Northern Mexico
45. The Archaeology of the Greater Southwest: Migration, Inequality, and Religious Transformations, Barbara J. Mills
46. Diversity in First Century AD Southwestern Farming Communities, Lisa Young
47. Hohokam Society and Water Management, Suzanne K. Fish and Paul R. Fish
48. Terraced Lives: Cerros De Trincheras Sites In The Northwest/ Southwest, Bridget M. Zavala
49. Chaco's Hinterlands, Stephen H. Lekson
50. The Mesa Verde Region, Mark D. Varien, Timothy A. Kohler, and Scott G. Ortman
51. Warfare and Conflict in the Late Pre-Columbian Pueblo World, James E. Snead
52. The Pueblo Village in an Age of Reformation (AD 1300-1600), Severin Fowles
53. Casas Grandes Phenomenon, Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool

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Author Information

Edited by Timothy Pauketat, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana

Timothy R. Pauketat is an Archaeologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Contributors:

Susan M. Alt, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
David G. Anderson, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
Robert L. Bettinger, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, USA.
John H. Blitz, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA.
Robert F. Boszhardt, Independent Researcher, Madison, Wisconsin.
Todd J. Braje, Professor of Anthropology, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, USA.
Claude Chapdelaine, Professor of Prehistoric Archeology, University of Montreal, Québec, Canada.
Douglas K. Charles, Professor of Anthropology, Wesleyan University, Middleton, Connecticut, USA.
Elizabeth S. Chilton, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for Heritage and Society, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.
Richard R. Drass, Archeologist III, Oklahoma Archeological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA.
Jelmer Eerkins, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, USA.
Thomas E. Emerson, Director, Illinois State Archaeological Survey, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA.
Jon Erlandson, Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA.
Judson Byrd Finley, Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Paul R. Fish, Professor of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Suzanne K. Fish, Professor of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Curator of Archaeology, Arizona State Museum, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
Severin Fowles, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, USA.
Martin Gallivan, Associate Professor of Anthropology, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
Guy Gibbon, Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA.
Judith A. Habicht-Mauche, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Robert L. Hall, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.
Donald H. Holly, Jr., Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, USA.
Meghan C. L. Howey, Assistant Professor of Archaeology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA.
Tristram R. Kidder, Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Adam King, Research Associate Professor, South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA.
Timothy A. Kohler, Professor of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, USA.
Stephen H. Lekson, Professor and Curator of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
Kent G. Lightfoot, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Edward M. Luby, Professor of Museum Studies, San Francisco State University, USA.
Herbert D. G. Maschner, Anthropology Research Professor and Director of the Idaho State University Center for Archaeology, Materials, and Applied Spectroscopy, University of Idaho, Pocatello, USA.
Moira McCaffrey, Director-General, Research and Collections, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada.
Dale L. McElrath, Statewide Survey Coordinator, Illinois State Archaeological Survey, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA.
Bernard K. Means, Instructor of Anthropology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA.
Barbara J. Mills, Professor of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona USA.
George R. Milner, Professor of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA.
Mark D. Mitchell, Researcher, Paleocultural Research Group, Arvada, Colorado, USA.
Christopher Morgan, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Utah State University, Logan, USA.
Vergil E. Noble, Supervisory Archeologist, Midwest Archeological Center, Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA.
Gerald A. Oetelaar, Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Scott G. Ortman, Director of Research, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado, USA.
Robert W. Park, Professor of Anthropology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Timothy R. Pauketat, Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA.
Deborah M. Pearsall, Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA.
Peter N. Peregrine, Professor of Anthropology, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA.
Jennifer E. Perry, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Pomona College, Claremont, California USA.
Anna Marie Prentiss, Professor of Anthropology, University of Montana, Missoula, USA.
Asa R. Randall, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA.
Mark A. Rees, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA.
Kenneth E. Sassaman, Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
Laura L. Scheiber , Associate Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
Stephen W. Silliman, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.
James E. Snead, Professor of Anthropology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
David Hurst Thomas, Curator of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, USA.
Christine S. VanPool, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA.
Todd L. VanPool, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA.
Mark D. Varien, Research and Education Chair, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado, USA.
Nicole Waguespack, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, USA.
Joe Watkins, Director of Native American Studies, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA.
Ronald F. Williamson, Chief Archaeologist, Archaeological Services, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Gregory D. Wilson, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
Lisa Young, Lecturer in Anthropology and Adjunct Assistant Research Scientist, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Bridget M. Zavala, Researcher at the Institute of Historical Research, University Juarez, Durango, Mexico.

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"If any editor is to be given special praise for his work, vision and services to the cause of clarity, then it is Timothy Pauketat. His handbook, marshalling the contributions of 62 authors, is a model of organisation" - Madeleine Hummler, Antiquity