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Combining the latest empirical studies of archaeological practice with the latest conceptual tools of anthropological and historical theory, this volume seeks to set a new course for hunter-gatherer archaeology by organizing the chapters around three themes. The first section offers diverse views of the role of human agency, challenging the premise that hunter-gatherer societies were bound by their interactions with the natural world. The second section considers how society and culture are constituted. Chapters in the final section take the long view of the historical process, examining how cultural diversity arises out of interaction and the continuity of ritual practices. A closing commentary by H. Martin Wobst underscores the promise of an archaeology of foragers that does not associate foraging with any particular ideology or social structure but instead invites inquiry into counterintuitive alternatives. Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology as Historical Process seeks to blur the divisions between prehistory and history, between primitive and modern, and between hunter-gatherers and people in other societies. Because it offers alternatives to the dominant discourse and contributes to the agenda of hunter-gatherer research, this book will be of interest to anyone involved in the study of foraging peoples.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50041414910225,"sku":"CIN0816530432G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50940494545169,"sku":"CIN0816530432VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0816530432.jpg?v=1786615151"},{"product_id":"eastern-archaic-historicized-book-kenneth-e-sassaman-9780759106802","title":"The Eastern Archaic, Historicized","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52125977674001,"sku":"NLS9780759106802","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52739947364625,"sku":"NIN9780759106802","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780759106802.jpg?v=1786111383"},{"product_id":"archaeology-of-the-mid-holocene-southeast-book-kenneth-e-sassaman-9780813018553","title":"Archaeology of the Mid-Holocene Southeast","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the foreword:\u003cbr\u003e \"With this important volume, the editors serve notice that old characterizations of the cultures of the Archaic period have been buried under the back dirt of new excavations and new interpretations. . . . It places the Archaic cultures squarely at the forefront of archaeological theory.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume summarizes our archaeological knowledge of natives who inhabited the American Southeast from 8,000 to 3,000 years ago and examines evidence of many of the native cultural expressions observed by early European explorers, including long-distance exchange, plant domestication, mound building, social ranking, and warfare. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Section I.  Mid-Holocene Environments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.  Geoarchaeology and the Mid-Holocene Landscape History of the Greater Southeast, by Joseph Schuldenrein\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.  Mid-Holocene Forest History of Florida and the Coastal Plain of Georgia and South Carolina, by William A. Watts, Eric C. Grimm, and T. C. Hussey\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection II.  Technology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.  Changing Strategies of Lithic Technological Organization, by Daniel S. Amick and Philip J. Carr\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.  Technological Innovations in Economic and Social Contexts, by Kenneth E. Sassaman\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.  Middle and Late Archaic Architecture, by Kenneth E. Sassaman and R. Jerald Ledbetter\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection III.  Subsistence and Health\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.  The Paleoethnobotanical Record for the Mid-Holocene Southeast, by Kristen J. Gremillion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.  Mid-Holocene Faunal Exploitation in the Southeastern United States, by Bonnie W. Styles and Walter E. Klippel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.  Biocultural Inquiry into Archaic Period Populations of the Southeast: Trauma and Occupational Stress, by Maria O. Smith\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection IV.  Regional Settlement Variation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.  Approaches to Modeling Regional Settlement in the Archaic Period Southeast, by David G. Anderson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.  Southeastern Mid-Holocene Coastal Settlements, by Michael Russo\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.  Accounting for Submerged Mid-Holocene Archaeological Sites in the Southeast:  A Case Study from the Chesapeake Bay Estuary, Virginia, by Dennis B. Blanton\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection V.  Regional Integration and Organization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.  The Emergence of Long-Distance Exchange Networks in the Southeastern United States, by Richard W. Jefferies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.  A Consideration of the Social Organization of the Shell Mound Archaic, by Cheryl P. 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He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Savannah River Chiefdoms: Political Change in the Late Prehistoric Southeast.\u003c\/i\u003e They are coeditors of The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52142719697169,"sku":"NLS9780813018553","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53035321032977,"sku":"NIN9780813018553","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780813018553.jpg?v=1786613802"},{"product_id":"eastern-archaic-historicized-book-kenneth-e-sassaman-9780759106796","title":"The Eastern Archaic, Historicized","description":"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. 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