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Author Wallis, Neill J.

Title The Swift Creek gift : vessel exchange on the Atlantic Coast / Neill J. Wallis
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 247 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents What is a gift? -- The Swift Creek cultures -- Cultural history and archaeological overview -- Instrumental neutron activation analysis : patterns of Swift Creek interaction -- Petrographic analysis : patterns of Swift Creek interaction -- The form, technology, and function of Swift Creek pottery -- The Swift Creek gift
Summary A unique dataset for studying past social interactions comes from Swift Creek Complicated Stamped pottery that linked sites throughout much of the Eastern Woodlands but that was primarily distributed over the lower Southeast. Although connections have been demonstrated, their significance has remained enigmatic. How and why were apparently utilitarian vessels, or the wooden tools used to make them, distributed widely across the landscape? This book assesses Woodland Period interactions using technofunctional, mineralogical, and chemical data derived from Swift Creek Complicated Sta
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-240) and index
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Subject Woodland culture -- Atlantic Coast (South Atlantic States)
Indians of North America -- Atlantic Coast (South Atlantic States) -- Antiquities
Indian pottery -- Atlantic Coast (South Atlantic States) -- Analysis
Ceremonial exchange -- Atlantic Coast (South Atlantic States) -- History
Social interaction -- Atlantic Coast (South Atlantic States)
Social archaeology -- Atlantic Coast (South Atlantic States)
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Atlantic Coast (South Atlantic States)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Antiquities
Ceremonial exchange
Excavations (Archaeology)
Indian pottery -- Analysis
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
Social archaeology
Social interaction
Woodland culture
SUBJECT Swift Creek Site (Ga.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98001057
Atlantic Coast (Ga.) -- Antiquities
Atlantic Coast (Fla.) -- Antiquities
Atlantic Coast (South Atlantic States) -- Antiquities
Subject Florida -- Atlantic Coast
Georgia -- Atlantic Coast
Georgia -- Swift Creek Site
United States -- Atlantic Coast (South Atlantic States)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817384845
0817384847
0817317171
9780817317171