The Caddo Nation
Title | The Caddo Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy K. Perttula |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 2010-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0292774230 |
First published in 1992 and now updated with a new preface by the author and a foreword by Thomas R. Hester, "The Caddo Nation" investigates the early contacts between the Caddoan peoples of the present-day Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas region and Europeans, including the Spanish, French, and some Euro-Americans. Perttula's study explores Caddoan cultural change from the perspectives of both archaeological data and historical, ethnographic, and archival records. The work focuses on changes from A.D. 1520 to ca. A.D. 1800 and challenges many long-standing assumptions about the nature of these changes.
The Archaeology of the Caddo
Title | The Archaeology of the Caddo PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy K. Perttula |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 2012-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0803240465 |
This landmark volume provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the prehistory and archaeology of the Caddo peoples. The Caddos lived in the Southeastern Woodlands for more than 900 years beginning around A.D. 800–900, before being forced to relocate to Oklahoma in 1859. They left behind a spectacular archaeological record, including the famous Spiro Mound site in Oklahoma as well as many other mound centers, plazas, farmsteads, villages, and cemeteries. The Archaeology of the Caddo examines new advances in studying the history of the Caddo peoples, including ceramic analysis, reconstructions of settlement and regional histories of different Caddo communities, Geographic Information Systems and geophysical landscape studies at several spatial scales, the cosmological significance of mound and structure placements, and better ways to understand mortuary practices. Findings from major sites and drainages such as the Crenshaw site, mounds in the Arkansas River basin, Spiro Mound, the Oak Hill Village site, the George C. Davis site, the Willow Chute Bayou Locality, the Hughes site, Big Cypress Creek basin, and the McClelland and Joe Clark sites are also summarized and interpreted. This volume reintroduces the Caddos’ heritage, creativity, and political and religious complexity.
Caddoan Archeology Newsletter
Title | Caddoan Archeology Newsletter PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Caddoan Indians |
ISBN |
The Archaeology of the Caddo
Title | The Archaeology of the Caddo PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy K. Perttula |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 534 |
Release | 2012-06-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0803220960 |
This landmark volume provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the prehistory and archaeology of the Caddo peoples. The Caddos lived in the Southeastern Woodlands for more than 900 years beginning around AD 800?900, before being forced to relocate to Oklahoma in 1859. They left behind a spectacular archaeological record, including the famous Spiro Mound site in Oklahoma as well as many other mound centers, plazas, farmsteads, villages, and cemeteries. The Archaeology of the Caddo examines new advances in studying the history of the Caddo peoples, including ceramic analysis, reconstructions of settlement and regional histories of different Caddo communities, Geographic Information Systems and geophysical landscape studies at several spatial scales, the cosmological significance of mound and structure placements, and better ways to understand mortuary practices. Findings from major sites and drainages such as the Crenshaw site, mounds in the Arkansas River basin, Spiro Mound, the Oak Hill Village site, the George C. Davis site, the Willow Chute Bayou Locality, the Hughes site, Big Cypress Creek basin, and the McClelland and Joe Clark sites are also summarized and interpreted. This volume reintroduces the Caddos? heritage, creativity, and political and religious complexity.
Caddoan Archeology
Title | Caddoan Archeology PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Caddoan Indians |
ISBN |
The Caddos and Their Ancestors
Title | The Caddos and Their Ancestors PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey S. Girard |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2018-03-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807167045 |
Taking an archaeological perspective on the past, Jeffrey S. Girard traces native human habitation in northwest Louisiana from the end of the last Ice Age, through the formation of the Caddo culture in the tenth century BCE, to the early nineteenth century. Employing the results of recent scientific investigations, The Caddos and Their Ancestors depicts a distinct and dynamic population spanning from precolonial times to the dawn of the modern era. Girard grounds his research in the material evidence that defined Caddo culture long before the appearance of Europeans in the late seventeenth century. Reliance solely on documented observations by explorers and missionaries—which often reflect a Native American population with a static past—propagates an incomplete account of history. By using specific archaeological techniques, Girard reveals how the Caddos altered their lives to cope with ever-changing physical and social environments across thousands of years. This illuminating approach contextualizes the remnants of houses, mounds, burials, tools, ornaments, and food found at Native American sites in northwest Louisiana. Through ample descriptions and illustrations of these archaeological finds, Girard deepens understanding of the social organization, technology, settlement, art, and worldviews of this resilient society. This long-overdue examination of an often-overlooked cultural force provides a thorough yet concise history of the 14,000 years the Caddo people and their predecessors survived and thrived in what is now Louisiana.
The Spiro Ceremonial Center
Title | The Spiro Ceremonial Center PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Brown |
Publisher | U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY |
Pages | 784 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0915703394 |