essay
The emergence of long-distance exchange networks in the southeastern United States
archaeology of the mid-holocene southeast • Gainesville • Published In 1996 • Pages: 222-234
By: Jefferies, Richard W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Jeffries discusses long distance exchange in the Midwest and Southeast during the Middle and Late Archaic. Regional exchange seems to have started around 6000 B.P. Jeffries believes long distance exchange started as 'increasing social and environmental risk associated with increased sedentism' led to 'the breakdown of traditional communication and interaction mechanisms used by more mobile hunter-gatherer groups' (pages 232-233). Long distance exchange was a way to gain information and reduce these social and environmental risks. Jeffries uses bone pins from the Midwest and ceremonial bifaces from the Southeast to illustrate these exchange networks.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Location
- Settlement patterns
- Weapons
- Exchange and transfers
- Inter-community relations
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eastern Middle Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2001
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 6500 BP - 5000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Midwest and Southeast United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Richard W. Jefferies
- For bibliographical references see Anonymous, 1996.
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95045466
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities/Indians of North America--Middle West--Antiquities