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- The Swift Creek Gift: Vessel Exchange on the Atlantic Coast
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
summary
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?
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-11
- 1. What is a Gift?
- pp. 12-27
- 2. The Swift Creek Cultures
- pp. 28-52
- 7. The Swift Creek Gift
- pp. 192-208
- References
- pp. 209-240
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817384845
Related ISBN(s)
9780817317171, 9780817356293
MARC Record
OCLC
745697217
Pages
263
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2011