Across the social sciences, gradualist evolutionary models of historical dynamics are giving way to explanations focused on the punctuated and contingent "events" through which history is actually experienced. The Archaeology of Events is the first book-length work that systematically applies this new eventful approach to major developments in the pre-Columbian Southeast. Traditional accounts of pre-Columbian societies often portray them as "cold" and unchanging for centuries or millennia. Events-based analyses have opened up archaeological discourse to the more nuanced and...
Across the social sciences, gradualist evolutionary models of historical dynamics are giving way to explanations focused on the punctuated and conting...
Broadening our understanding of southeastern hunter-gatherers who lived between 4600 and 3500 BP, Zackary Gilmore presents evidence that the Late Archaic community of Silver Glen--one of Florida's most elaborate shell mound complexes--integrated people and places from throughout Florida by staging large-scale feasts and other public events.
Gilmore analyzes the composition and style of pottery at the site, revealing that many of the large, elaborately decorated vessels from the shell mounds were imports with nonlocal origins. His findings indicate that the people of Silver Glen...
Broadening our understanding of southeastern hunter-gatherers who lived between 4600 and 3500 BP, Zackary Gilmore presents evidence that the Late A...
