Caddo Connections

Caddo Connections
Author: Jeffrey S. Girard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2014-04-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0759122881

Drawing on the latest archaeological fieldwork, Caddo Connections looks at the highly dynamic cultural landscape of the Caddo Area and its complex interconnections and exchanges with surrounding regions. The authors employ a multiscalar approach to examine cultural diversity through time and across space within the Caddo Area. They explore how and why this diversity developed, consider what allowed it to stabilize during the Mississippian period, and analyze changes following contact between historic Caddo peoples and Europeans. Looking beyond individual river valleys to the broader macroregion, they also address the linkages connecting the Caddo Area with the Southeast, southern Plains, and Southwest.

Between Contacts and Colonies

Between Contacts and Colonies
Author: Cameron B. Wesson
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2002-10-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 081731167X

This collection of essays brings together diverse approaches to the analysis of Native American culture in the protohistoric period For most Native American peoples of the Southeast, almost two centuries passed between first contact with European explorers in the 16th century and colonization by whites in the 18th century—a temporal span commonly referred to as the Protohistoric period. A recent flurry of interest in this period by archaeologists armed with an improved understanding of the complexity of culture contact situations and important new theoretical paradigms has illuminated a formerly dark time frame. This volume pulls together the current work of archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists to demonstrate a diversity of approaches to studying protohistory. Contributors address different aspects of political economy, cultural warfare, architecture, sedentism, subsistence, foods, prestige goods, disease, and trade. From examination of early documents by René Laudonnière and William Bartram to a study of burial goods distribution patterns; and from an analysis of Caddoan research in Arkansas and Louisiana to an interesting comparison of Apalachee and Powhatan elites, this volume ranges broadly in subject matter. What emerges is a tantalizingly clear view of the protohistoric period in North America.

The Caddo Nation

The Caddo Nation
Author: Timothy K. Perttula
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0292774230

First published in 1992 and now updated with a new preface by the author and a foreword by Thomas R. Hester, "The Caddo Nation" investigates the early contacts between the Caddoan peoples of the present-day Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas region and Europeans, including the Spanish, French, and some Euro-Americans. Perttula's study explores Caddoan cultural change from the perspectives of both archaeological data and historical, ethnographic, and archival records. The work focuses on changes from A.D. 1520 to ca. A.D. 1800 and challenges many long-standing assumptions about the nature of these changes.

Bibliography of the Sioux

Bibliography of the Sioux
Author: Jack W. Marken
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1980
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780810813564

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The Archaeology of the Caddo

The Archaeology of the Caddo
Author: Timothy K. Perttula
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803220960

This landmark volume provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the prehistory and archaeology of the Caddo peoples. The Caddos lived in the Southeastern Woodlands for more than 900 years beginning around AD 800?900, before being forced to relocate to Oklahoma in 1859. They left behind a spectacular archaeological record, including the famous Spiro Mound site in Oklahoma as well as many other mound centers, plazas, farmsteads, villages, and cemeteries. The Archaeology of the Caddo examines new advances in studying the history of the Caddo peoples, including ceramic analysis, reconstructions of settlement and regional histories of different Caddo communities, Geographic Information Systems and geophysical landscape studies at several spatial scales, the cosmological significance of mound and structure placements, and better ways to understand mortuary practices. Findings from major sites and drainages such as the Crenshaw site, mounds in the Arkansas River basin, Spiro Mound, the Oak Hill Village site, the George C. Davis site, the Willow Chute Bayou Locality, the Hughes site, Big Cypress Creek basin, and the McClelland and Joe Clark sites are also summarized and interpreted. This volume reintroduces the Caddos? heritage, creativity, and political and religious complexity.

Ethnographic Bibliography of North America

Ethnographic Bibliography of North America
Author: George Peter Murdock
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Pub. for the Department of anthropology, Yale university, by the Yale University Press; London H. Milford: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1941
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN: