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Swift Creek designs: a tool for monoriting interaction
world engraved : archaeology of the swift creek culture • Tuscaloosa • Published In 1998 • Pages: 99-111
By: Snow, Frankie, Stephenson, Keith.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Snow and Stephenson 'describe and discuss intraregional Swift Creek design contacts with a focus on data obtained from ceramic assemblages recovered during recent salvage excavations at the Hartford site (9PU1) in south-central Georgia.' (page 100). The Hartford site has Early and Middle Swift Creek components. These design elements from wooden ceramic paddles used to make Swift Creek pottery show the Hartford site interacted with sites up river during the Early Swift Creek period and mostly down river during the Middle Swift Creek period. This may indicate people migrated downstream during this later period. They conclude, though, that design distribution may occur from seasonal movement, trade, or marriage of people from different centers and could be from either paddle or vessel movement.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Ceramic technology
- Settlement patterns
- Visual arts
- Inter-community relations
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eastern Middle Woodland
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- 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 ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1988-1989
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Early-Middle Swift Creek
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern Georgia, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Frankie Snow and Keith Stephenson
- For bibliographical references see 9: Williams and Elliot
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98009001
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Woodland culture