A World Engraved: Archaeology of the Swift Creek Culture

Contents

Contents Figures and Tables ix Preface xv 1. Swift Creek Research: History and Observations Mark Williams and Daniel T. Elliott 1 2. Swift Creek Site Excavations: The Works Progress Administration and Black Labor Alan Marsh 12 3. The Northern and Eastern Expression of Swift Creek Culture: Settlement in the Tennessee and Savannah River Valleys Daniel T. Elliott 19 4. Shrines of the Prehistoric South: Patterning in Middle Woodland Mound Distribution Mark Williams and Jennifer Freer Harris 36 5. Swift Creek: Lineage and Diffusion David W. Chase 48 6. Swift Creek Design Investigations: The Hartford Case Frankie Snow 61 7. Swift Creek Designs: A Tool for Monitoring Interaction Frankie Snow and Keith Stephenson 99 8. Neutron Activation Analysis of Ceramics from Mandeville and Swift Creek Betty A. Smith 112 9. Cultural Interaction within Swift Creek Society: People, Pots, and Paddles James B. Stoltman and Frankie Snow 130 10. Swift Creek Phase Design Assemblages from Two Sites on the Georgia Coast Rebecca Saunders 154 11. Kolomoki and the Development of Sociopolitical Organization on the Gulf Coastal Plain Karl T. Steinen 181 12. Swift Creek Traits in Northeastern Florida: Ceramics, Mounds, and Middens Keith H. Ashley 197 13. 1973 and 1994 Excavations at the Block-Sterns Site, Leon County, Florida B. Calvin Jones, Daniel T. Penton, and Louis D. Tesar 222 vi Contents 14. Santa Rosa–Swift Creek in Northwestern Florida Judith A. Bense 247 15. Swift Creek in a Regional Perspective David G. Anderson 274 References Cited 301 Contributors 339 Index 343 Contents vii ...