essay
Southeastern Archaic mounds
archaeology of the mid-holocene southeast • Gainesville • Published In 1996 • Pages: 259-287
By: Russo, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Russo examines shell mounds throughout the Southeast during the Archaic and discusses evidence that they were intentionally constructed as early as the Middle Archaic. The sites specifically discussed which date to the Middle Archaic are: Monte Sano, Hornsby Mounds, and LSU Campus Mounds in Louisiana; Horrs Island and Tick Island in Florida; and Frenchman's Bend, Hedgepeth, Stelly Mounds, and Watson Brake in Louisiana. Russo believes economies based on aquatic resources helped bring about sedentism and societies complex enough to build these mounds.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Religious and educational structures
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary 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
- 1992-1993
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Middle Archaic
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Southeast United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael Russo
- For bibliographical references see Anonymous, 1996.
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95045466
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities