essay
Poverty Point and greater Southeastern prehistory
archaeology of the mid-holocene southeast • Gainesville • Published In 1996 • Pages: 288-305
By: Gibson, Jon L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Poverty Point site and culture are unique for their early mound building, ceramics, and long-distance exchange, especially of rock resources. Gibson reviews the data on the site and culture. Unique as the site was, it can be explained as a consequence of a relatively large, logistical fishing-hunting-gathering population who lacked hard rock and who supplied that resource through long-distance trade. It had a mound building tradition and a culture which had the organizational and managerial know-how to motivate people to work. But it seemed to have had little influence on surrounding cultures.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Reviews and critiques
- Location
- Cultural participation
- Ceramic technology
- Religious and educational structures
- Settlement patterns
- External trade
- Ethnogeography
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eastern Late Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- terminal Archaic; 3300 BP-3050 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Povery Point, Louisiana; United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jon L. Gibson
- For bibliographical references see document 8: [Kenneth E. Sassaman and David G. Anderson]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95045466
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Antiquities