Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology

513 Pages·2015·24.22 MB·English

by  James G. Cusick

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Studies in Culture
Contact
Interaction, Culture
Change, and Archaeology
Edited by
James G. Cusick
Center for Archaeological Investigations
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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Contents
Figures vii
Tables ix
Preface
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1. Introduction
James G. Cusick 1
I. Perspectives on the Study of Culture Contact in
Archaeology: Concepts and Critiques
2. Transculturation and Spanish American Ethnogenesis: The
Archaeological Legacy of the Quincentenary
Kathleen Deagan 23
3. Contexts of Contact and Change: Peripheries, Frontiers, and
Boundaries
Prudence M. Rice 44
4. Culture Contact in Evolutionary Perspective
Robert L. Schuyler 67
5. Evolutionary Theory and the Native American Record of Artifact
Replacement
Ann F. Ramenofsky 77
6. Culture Contact Structure and Process
Edward M. Schortman and Patricia A. Urban 102
7. Historiography of Acculturation: An Evaluation of Concepts
and Their Application in Archaeology
James G. Cusick 126
8. Violent Encounters: Ethnogenesis and Ethnocide in Long-Term
Contact Situations
Jonathan D. Hill 146
9. Cultural Interaction and African American Identity in Plantation
Archaeology
Theresa A. Singleton 172
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II. Archaeological Case Studies in Culture Contact
10. 30,000 Years of Culture Contact in the Southwest Pacific
John Edward Terrell 191
11. World System Theory and Alternative Modes of Interaction in
the Archaeology of Culture Contact
Gil f. Stein 220
12. Nubia and Egypt: Interaction, Acculturation, and Secondary
State Formation from the Third to First Millennium B.C.
Stuart Tyson Smith 256
13. Consumption, Agency, and Cultural Entanglement: Theoretical
Implications of a Mediterranean Colonial Encounter
Michael Dietler 288
14. Culture Contact, Identity, and Change in the European
Provinces of the Roman Empire
Peter S. Wells 316
15. Toltec Invaders and Spanish Conquistadors: Culture Contact in
the Postclassic Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico
Susan Toby Evans 335
16. Culture Contact and Change in West Africa
Christopher R. DeCorse 358
17. Cultural Transformation Within Enslaved Laborer Communities
in the Caribbean
Douglas V. Armstrong 378
18. Forced Relocation, Power Relations, and Culture Contact in the
Missions of La Florida
Rebecca Saunders 402
19. Some Think It Impossible to Civilize Them at All: Cultural
Change and Continuity Among the Early Nineteenth-Century
Potawatomi
Mark f. Wagner 430
20. Lacand6n Maya Culture Change and Survival in the Lowland
Frontier of the Expanding Guatemalan and Mexican Republics
Joel W. Palka 457
21. Afterword: Toward an Archaeological Theory of Culture Contact
Rani T. Alexander 476
Contributors 497
Index 499
Figures
3-1. A typology of border situations 50
3-2. Frontier colonization and sources of innovation 55
5-1. Functional replacement model 85
5-2. Little Tennessee: Proportions of Native American to European
sherds 89
5-3. Knife River: Proportions of Native American to European
sherds 90
5-4. Little Tennessee: Proportions of stone to kaolin pipes 91
5-5. Knife River: Proportions of stone to kaolin pipes 91
5-6. Little Tennessee: Proportions of unmodified to modified
metal objects 93
5-7. Modified to unmodified metal objects compared with number
of artifact categories 94
10-1. The Sepik coast of Papua New Guinea 201
11-1. Map of the Near East showing Uruk colonies/ enclaves and
local settlements 222
11-2. Distance-parity model of interregional interaction 231
11-3. Topographic map of Hacmebi showing main excavation areas 234
11-4. Comparison of ceramic ware types between Uruk and Local Late
Chalcolithic contexts in northeast area 235
11-5. Comparison of faunal patterning in Uruk and Local Anatolian
contexts at Hacmebi and in contemporaneous sites 236
11-6. Comparison of sheep I goat body part frequencies in Uruk and
Local Anatolian contexts at Hacmebi 243
11-7. Uruk administrative technology at Hacmebi 244
11-8. Hacmebi Local Anatolian administrative technology employing
stamp seals 245
12-1. The Egyptian core, Nubian, and Syro-Palestinian peripheries
and international exchange 257
12-2. The dendritic political economy of Syro-Palestine, Egypt, and
Nubia 264
12-3. City and cemetery at Kerma 267
12-4. Bypassing the Egyptian core 268
12-5. Development of the Napatan Royal Cemetery at el-Kurru 270
12-6. Doyle's model of peripheral societies 275
12-7. Acculturation and status at Fadrus Cemetery 279
13-1. Lower Rhone basin and Hallstatt region 292
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14-1. Map showing Late La n~ne and early Roman period sites
in southern Germany and northern France mentioned in
the text 319
14-2. Reconstruction drawing of the Roman period temple excavated
at Empel in the Netherlands 325
15-1. Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico: Aztec period settlement pattern 337
15-2. Cihuatecpan: An Aztec period village in the Teotihuaca.n
Valley, Mexico 343
15-3. Figurines from Cihuatecpan 347
16-1. Long-distance trade routes in West Africa 360
16-2. Eighteenth-century map of the West African coast 361
16-3. Plan of Locus B excavation, Elmina, Ghana 371
16-4. Pottery from Elmina, Ghana 373
17-1. Topographic map showing general location of the African
Jamaican villages at Seville 382
17-2. 1721 map of Seville 384
17-3. Seville African Jamaican settlement: Early village 385
17-4. Hypothetical reconstruction of House 16: Early village 386
17-5. Excavation plan of House 16 (house-yard compound) 387
17-6. 1791 map of Seville 388
17-7. Household and Community Functional Analysis 394
17-8. Personal and Community Presentation 395
18-1. Native American peoples of La Florida 406
18-2. The peoples of Timucua 409
18-3. The Guale coast and approximate boundaries of the southern
chiefdoms 410
18-4. Principal mission villages of Apalachee 411
18-5. Irene phase filfot cross motif; San Marcos Complicated
Stamped; San Marcos, overstamped; Irene incised 420
18-6. Examples of the World Symbol on shell gorgets 421
18-7. Location of Irene and Mission Period sites used in study 422
20-1. Area occupied by the Lacand6n Maya and nineteenth-century
archaeological sites 460
20-2. Lacand6n lithics 465
20-3. Artifacts from El Caobal 466
20-4. Lacand6n ceramics from El Caobal 467
Tables
5-1. Frequencies and Proportions of Sherds and Pipes: Little
Tennessee 87
5-2. Frequencies and Proportions of Sherds and Pipes: Knife River 88
5-3. Unmodified and Modified Metal Objects: Little Tennessee 92
5-4. Proportions of Unmodified and Modified Metal Objects and
Category Richness at Toqua and Chota 94
11-1. Frequency of Common Plant Types by Late Chalcolithic Phase 239
11-2. Hacmebi Phase B-Bitumen Residues and Silica Gloss: Uruk
vs. Local Contexts 242
12-1. Chronology 260
15-1. Provisional Chronology for the Teotihuacan Valley 336
19-1. List of Goods Shipped to Bernardu s Laughton on September
6, 1832 439
19-2. Comparison of Functional Artifact Categories: Eighteenth-
and Nineteenth-Century Fur Trade Invoices 441
19-3. Artifact Types at Windrose Site by Functional Category 447
19-4. Comparison of Functional Categories: Windrose and Rock
Island Sites 448
19-5. Comparison of Potawatomi Manufactures: Rock Island and
Windrose Sites 449
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