Architectural variability in the Southeast / edited by Cameron H. Lacquement.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lacquement, Cameron H., 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mississippian culture--Southern States--Congresses.

Mississippian culture.

Indians of North America--Dwellings--Southern States--Congresses.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities--Congresses.

Southern States--Antiquities--Congresses.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Some of the most visible expressions of human culture are illustrated architecturally. Unfortunately for archaeologists, the architecture being studied is not always visible and must be inferred from soil inconsistencies or charred remains. This study deals with research into roughly a millennium of Native American architecture in the Southeast and includes research on the variation of construction techniques employed both above and below ground. Most of the architecture discussed is that of domestic houses with some emphasis on large public buildings and sweat lodges. The authors use an

Contents:

Introduction to architectural variability in the Southeast / Cameron H. Lacquement

Evidence of curved roof construction in Mississippian structures / Nelson A. Reed

An experimental perspective on Mississippian small pole structures / Dennis B. Blanton and Tom H. Gresham

Typology, chronology, and technological changes of Mississippian domestic architecture in west-central Alabama / Cameron H. Lacquement

In-ground evidence of above-ground architecture at Kincaid Mounds / Tamira K. Brennan

A comparison of burned Mississippian houses from Illinois / Mark A. McConaughy

A WPA deja vu on Mississippian architecture / Lynne P. Sullivan

An architectural grammar of late Mississippian houses in northwest Georgia / Ramie A. Gougeon

A Mississippian sweat lodge / Robert H. Lafferty, III

Interpreting changes in historic Creek household architecture at the turn of the nineteenth century / Robert J. Scott

Conclusions: Taking architecture seriously / Vernon J. Knight, Jr.

Notes:

"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication"--P. [ii].

Papers originally presented at a symposium titled "Variability in Native American Architecture of the Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Southeast," presented at the 62nd Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Columbia, South Carolina, in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-214) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8201-1

OCLC:

426526602