Apalachicola Valley archaeology /
Author / Creator: | White, Nancy Marie, author. |
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Imprint: | Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2024-] |
Description: | volumes : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13446987 |
Summary: | The definitive archaeological record and what is known or speculated about the ancient Apalachicola and lower Chattahoochee Valley region of northwest Florida, southeast Alabama, and southwest Georgia White reveals that Paleoindian habitation was more extensive than once surmised. Archaic sites were widespread, and those societies persisted when the Ice Age ended 10,000 years ago. Pottery appeared in the Late Archaic period (before 4000 BP), and Early Woodland-period burial mounds demonstrate a flowering of religious and ritual systems. Middle Woodland societies expanded this mortuary ceremony, and the complex pottery of the Swift Creek and the early Weeden Island ceramic series show an increased fascination with the ornate and unusual. Yet, basic Native American lifeways continued with gathering-fishing-hunting subsistence traditions similar to those of their ancestors. This volume and its companion form the definitive work on the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee Valley region for both scholars and general readers interested in Native Americans of the Southeast. |
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Physical Description: | volumes : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780817321802 0817321802 9780817361303 0817361308 9780817394813 9780817321819 0817321810 9780817361310 0817361316 9780817394837 |