Seminar in Southeastern Archaeology

Beginning of Semester Readings

 

August 28         Southeastern Environment         -Bense, Chapter 2

 

September 2     Archaeological Theory  -Bense, Chapter 3

 

September 4        Paleoindian                          -Bense, chapter 4

                                                                       -Mead & Haynes vs. Adovasio in

         American Antiquity v 45(3)

 

September 9        Late Paleoindian                   -“Little Salt Spring, Florida” in Science 203:609-614.

 

September 11      Early Archaic                         Bense, chapter 5

                                                                       - “7,290-year-old bottle gourd from the Windover site, Florida,” by Glen H. Doran, David N. Dickel, Lee A. Newsom. In American Antiquity 55(2): 354-360—JSTOR or my office.

 

Short paper:  Discuss the pros and cons of pre-Clovis and the Peopling the Americas debate.  Three pages or less, at least one source not from readings.