Inscribing Interaction: Middle Woodland Monumentality in the Appalachian Summit, 100 BC -- AD 400
[electronic resource].

Description

Main Author

Wright, Alice P.

Related Names

University of Michigan. Library.

Language(s)

English

Published

2014.

Subjects

Pre-Columbian Interaction.
Monumentality.

Summary

identities at multiple scales structure local historical trajectories among complex hunter-gatherers, and encourage the further development of theories of culture contact in pre-Columbian contexts.
During the Middle Woodland period (ca. 300 B.C. – A.D. 500), indigenous people across eastern North America participated – to varying degrees – in long distance networks of material and ideological exchange. This study examines the relationship between these interregional interactions and the emergence monumental architecture among groups of seasonally sedentary, egalitarian hunter-gatherer-gardeners in western North Carolina’s Appalachian Summit. Using the results of multi-method geophysical survey, targeted excavation, radiocarbon dating, and analyses of museum collections and newly excavated materials, I argue that the record of geometric enclosure and platform mound construction and use at the Garden Creek site points to a complex and shifting history of interregional interaction and local response. These findings underscore how social relationships and

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