The Swift Creek Gift: Vessel Exchange on the Atlantic Coast - Couverture souple

Wallis, Neill

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0817356290 ISBN 13 : 9780817356293

Editeur : The University of Alabama Press, 2011

Synopsis

Assesses Woodland Period interactions using technofunctional, mineralogical, and chemical data derived from Swift Creek Complicated Stamped sherds

A unique dataset for studying past social interactions comes from Swift Creek Complicated Stamped pottery that linked sites throughout much of the Eastern Woodlands but that was primarily distributed over the lower Southeast. Although connections have been demonstrated, their significance has remained enigmatic. How and why were apparently utilitarian vessels, or the wooden tools used to make them, distributed widely across the landscape?

This book assesses Woodland Period interactions using technofunctional, mineralogical, and chemical data derived from Swift Creek Complicated Stamped sherds whose provenience is fully documented from both mortuary mounds and village middens along the Atlantic coast. Together, these data demonstrate formal and functional differences between mortuary and village assemblages along with the nearly exclusive occurrence of foreign-made cooking pots in mortuary contexts. The Swift Creek Gift provides insight into the unique workings of gift exchanges to transform seemingly mundane materials like cooking pots into powerful tools of commemoration, affiliation, and ownership.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Neill J. Wallis is Assistant Curator in Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of Alabama Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0817356290
• ISBN 13: 9780817356293
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
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• Personne responsable: non disponible