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Histories of Southeastern Archaeology by Shannon Tushingham; Charles H. McNutt; Jane Hill; David G. Anderson; Gregory A. Waselkov; Stephen Williams; Jon Muller; Jerald T. Milanich; John A. Walthall; Lewis Larson; Kenneth E. Sassaman; Jay K. Johnson; David S. Brose; Rudolf Berle Clay; Hester Davis; Kathleen Deagan; William G. Haag; Roger Saucier; George Quimby; Ann F. Ramenofsky; Bettye J. Broyles; Bennie C. Keel; Howard A. MacCord; Robert W. Newman; Stanley A. South; Charles H. Faulkner is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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This volume provides a comprehensive, broad-based overview, including first-person accounts, of the development and conduct of archaeology in the Southeast over the past three decades. Histories of Southeastern Archaeology originated as a symposium at the 1999 Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) organized in honor of the retirement of Charles H. McNutt following 30 years of teaching anthropology. Written for the most part by members of the first post-depression generation of southeastern archaeologists, this volume offers a window not only into the archaeological past of the United States but also into the hopes and despairs of archaeologists who worked to write that unrecorded history or to test scientific theories concerning culture. The contributors take different approaches, each guided by experience, personality, and location, as well as by the legislation that shaped the practical conduct of archaeology in their area. Despite the state-by-state approach, there are certain common themes, such as the effect (or lack thereof) of changing theory in Americanist archaeology, the explosion of contract archaeology and its relationship to academic archaeology, goals achieved

Author

Shannon Tushingham; Charles H. McNutt; Jane Hill; David G. Anderson; Gregory A. Waselkov; Stephen Williams; Jon Muller; Jerald T. Milanich; John A. Walthall; Lewis Larson; Kenneth E. Sassaman; Jay K. Johnson; David S. Brose; Rudolf Berle Clay; Hester Davis; Kathleen Deagan; William G. Haag; Roger Saucier; George Quimby; Ann F. Ramenofsky; Bettye J. Broyles; Bennie C. Keel; Howard A. MacCord; Robert W. Newman; Stanley A. South; Charles H. Faulkner

Publisher

University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817313647

Subjects

Science, History, Humanities