The archaeology of houses and households in the Native Southeast /

The archaeology of houses and households in the Native Southeast /

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Author / Creator:	Steere, Benjamin A., 1981- author.
Imprint:	Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2017]
Description:	xv, 215 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Archaeology of the American South : new directions and perspectives Archaeology of the American South.
Subject:	Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Antiquities. Indians of North America -- Dwellings -- Southern States -- History. Household archaeology -- Southern States. Indian architecture -- Southern States -- History. Architecture, Domestic -- Southern States -- History. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Southern States. Antiquities. Architecture, Domestic. Excavations (Archaeology) Household archaeology. Indian architecture. Indians of North America -- Antiquities. Indians of North America -- Dwellings. Southern States -- Antiquities. Appalachian Region, Southern -- Antiquities. Appalachian Region, Southern. Southern States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11025985

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ISBN:	9780817319496 0817319492 9780817391195
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-212) and index.
Summary:	"This book explores changes in houses and households in the southeastern United States from the Woodland to the Historic Indian Period (ca. 200 B.C. to A.D. 1800). Most studies of domestic architecture in the Southeast have been conducted at the single-site scale. As a result, broader spatial and temporal patterns of variation in houses and households are not well understood. To address this problem, Steere constructed a database that catalogues the architectural features of 1,258 structures from 65 sites in the Southern Appalachian region and surrounding areas. Significant trends identified by this comparative study include changes in the size and spacing of houses, changes in architectural investment, and a secular trend toward the increasing segmentation of houses. Using a theoretical framework developed from household archaeology and anthropology, Steere argues that certain aspects of this architectural variation can be explained by changes in household economics and household composition, symbolic behavior, status differentiation, and settlement patterning. More generally, he proposes that large-scale patterns of diachronic and synchronic variation in domestic architecture are best explained by changes in social organization"--Provided by publisher.

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