Archaeology of the Lower Muskogee Creek Indians, 1715-1836.

By: Foster, Howard ThomasContributor(s): Bonhage-Freund, Mary Theresa | O'Steen, Lisa DMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (320 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780817381332Subject(s): Chattahoochee River Valley -- Antiquities | Creek Indians -- Chattahoochee River Valley -- Antiquities | Creek Indians -- Material culture -- Chattahoochee River Valley | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Chattahoochee River ValleyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Archaeology of the Lower Muskogee Creek Indians, 1715-1836DDC classification: 758.004/97385 LOC classification: E99Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Orthography and Pronunciation -- 1. Ethnohistoric Context -- 2. Environmental Context -- 3. History of Archaeological Investigations -- 4. Pottery -- 5. Architecture -- 6. Botanical Remains -- 7. Animal Remains -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: The Muskogee Indians who lived along the lower Chattahoochee and Flint River watersheds had, and continue to have, a profound influence on the development of the southeastern United States, especially during the historic period (circa 1540-1836). Our knowledge of that culture is limited to what we can learn from their descendants and from archaeological and historical sources.   Combining historical documents and archaeological research on all known Lower Muskogee Creek sites, Thomas Foster has accurately pinpointed town locations discussed in the literature and reported in contemporary Creek oral histories. In so doing, this volume synthesizes the archaeological diversity and variation within the Lower Creek Indians between 1715 and 1836. The book is a study of archaeological methods because it analyzes the temporal and geographic variation within a single archaeological phase and the biases of that archaeological data. Foster's research segregates the variation between Lower Creek Indian towns through a regional and direct historic approach. Consequently, he is able to discern the unique differences between individual Creek Indian towns.    Foster argues that the study of Creek Indian history should be at the level of towns instead of archaeological phases and that there is significant continuity between the culture of the Historic Period Indians and the Prehistoric and Protohistoric peoples.    H. Thomas Foster II, a specialist in archaeology and human ecology, is Lecturer of Anthropology at Northern Kentucky University and editor ofThe Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796-1810. Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund is a specialist in archaeobotanical analysis at Alma College. Lisa O'Steen is a specialist in zooarchaeological analysis at Wildcat Ridge, Watkinsville, Georgia.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Orthography and Pronunciation -- 1. Ethnohistoric Context -- 2. Environmental Context -- 3. History of Archaeological Investigations -- 4. Pottery -- 5. Architecture -- 6. Botanical Remains -- 7. Animal Remains -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Muskogee Indians who lived along the lower Chattahoochee and Flint River watersheds had, and continue to have, a profound influence on the development of the southeastern United States, especially during the historic period (circa 1540-1836). Our knowledge of that culture is limited to what we can learn from their descendants and from archaeological and historical sources.   Combining historical documents and archaeological research on all known Lower Muskogee Creek sites, Thomas Foster has accurately pinpointed town locations discussed in the literature and reported in contemporary Creek oral histories. In so doing, this volume synthesizes the archaeological diversity and variation within the Lower Creek Indians between 1715 and 1836. The book is a study of archaeological methods because it analyzes the temporal and geographic variation within a single archaeological phase and the biases of that archaeological data. Foster's research segregates the variation between Lower Creek Indian towns through a regional and direct historic approach. Consequently, he is able to discern the unique differences between individual Creek Indian towns.    Foster argues that the study of Creek Indian history should be at the level of towns instead of archaeological phases and that there is significant continuity between the culture of the Historic Period Indians and the Prehistoric and Protohistoric peoples.    H. Thomas Foster II, a specialist in archaeology and human ecology, is Lecturer of Anthropology at Northern Kentucky University and editor ofThe Collected Works of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796-1810. Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund is a specialist in archaeobotanical analysis at Alma College. Lisa O'Steen is a specialist in zooarchaeological analysis at Wildcat Ridge, Watkinsville, Georgia.

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