The Eastern Archaic, Historicized

The Eastern Archaic, Historicized offers an alternative perspective on the genesis and transformation of cultural diversity over eight millennia of hunter-gatherer dwelling in eastern North America. For many decades, archaeological understanding of Archaic diversity has been dominated by perspectives that emphasize localized relationships between humans and environment. The evidence, shows, however that Archaic people routinely associated with other groups throughout eastern North America and expressed themselves materially in ways that reveal historical links to other places and times. Starting with the colonization of eastern North America by two distinct ancestral lines, the Eastern Archaic was an era of migrations, ethnogenesis, and coalescence--an 8,200-year era of making histories through interactions and expressing them culturally in ritual and performance.

Author: Kenneth Sassaman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 07/01/2015
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780759106802
ISBN10: 0759106800
BISAC Categories:
- History | Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
- Social Science | Archaeology
- History | United States | State & Local | General

About the Author
Kenneth E. Sassaman is Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of Florida Archaeology at the University of Florida.