Readings:  Whyte, Thomas R, 2007, "Proto-Iroquoian divergence in the Late Archaic-Early Woodland period transition of the Appalachian highlands," in

 Southeastern Archaeology 26(1): 134-144.

                Gibson, John 1996 "Poverty Point and Greater Southeastern Prehistory the Culture that Did Not Fit," in Archaeology of the mid-Holocene Southeast,

             edited by Kenneth E. Sassaman and David G. Anderson.  University Press of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History. 

To get the book chapter, click on the above link, click on View e-book, get to the e-book and open Section V, then open Chapter 15.

Late Archaic questions

What was the political structure of Poverty Point?

What do you think the mounds were for?

Why did the ancestors of the Cherokee and the ancestors of the Iroquois separate?

Take the evidence from the Whyte article and the Gibson article together. What do you think is happening in the Late Archaic?