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Gulf Coast archaeology : the southeastern United States and Mexico / edited by Nancy Marie White.

Title: Gulf Coast archaeology : the southeastern United States and Mexico / edited by Nancy Marie White.
Publication: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2005.

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xvi, 416 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

Publisher description: Native peoples living around the Gulf of Mexico had much in common, from the time of the earliest hunter-fisher-gatherers onward. There have been hypotheses of prehistoric interaction between the southeastern United States and Mesoamerica, but explorations of the processes have been few. This volume chronicles the archaeological continuities and discontinuities along the Gulf Coast from Archaic through Postclassic/Mississippian times and later, including shell mounds/middens and estuarine adaptations, subsistence similarities, the relationship of early settlement and sea level rise, cultural complexity, early monumental construction, long-distance exchange relations, and symbolism and iconography. Many debatable issues are explored. Northeastern Mexico is a region relatively remote from the Mesoamerican heartland, as is coastal Texas from the southeastern United States. The connecting area of the south Texas/Mexican coast may have been too inhospitable for much habitation, thus inhibiting interaction, yet some artifact types and styles, not to mention food crops, crossed these boundaries. The long-distance diffusion of ideas of sociocultural complexity, food production, and monument construction are reexamined in Gulf Coast Archaeology with new data and wide geographic prespectives. This book is an important contribution to the hypothesis of prehistoric culture contact and interaction between native groups in North America and Mesoamerica, which has been an openly debated topic over the last century.

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Conference papers and proceedings

Note

Based on a symposium held at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in New Orleans.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-386) and index.

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committed to retain

Contents

Prehistoric connections around the Gulf Coast / Nancy Marie White -- Rivers in the sea: the Gulf of Mexico as a cultural corridor in antiquity / S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson -- A new look at the Gulf Coast formative / Randolph J. Widmer -- Mound builders along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern United States / Patricio Dávila Cabrera -- Sea-level rise and fluctuation on the central Texas coast: exploring cultural and ecological correlates / Robert A. Ricklis and Richard A. Weinstein -- Dumps and piles: site structure and settlement patterning on the middle and upper Texas Gulf Coast / E. Frances Gadus -- Late Holocene environments and the archaeological record of the south Texas coast / Karl W. Kibler -- Paleoagriculture on the Gulf Coast: two possible cases of the Classic period, Central Veracruz, Mexico / Annick Daneels, Fabio Flores, Emilio Ibarra, Manuel Zolá -- Perspectives on variation in Olmec settlement and polity using Mississippian models / Christopher A. Pool -- Charasteristic elements shared by northeastern Mexico and the southeastern United States / Diana Zaragoza Ocaña -- Wind jewels and paddling gods: the Mississippian southeast in the postclassic Mesoamerican world / Alice Beck Kehoe -- The American formative revisited / John E. Clark and Michelle Knoll -- Discontinuities, common foundations, short-distance interactions, and sporadic long-distance connections around the Gulf of Mexico / Nancy Marie White.

ISBN

0813028086 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004066139

OCLC

57342121
SCSB-10043942

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Harvard Library